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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s A Psalm of Life is an inspirational poem that encourages readers to live with purpose and moral determination. Written in the 19th century, the poem rejects passivity and resignation in the face of life’s difficulties,...

Desiderata is a short prose poem by Max Ehrmann. Written in 1927, offers guidance for a meaningful, ethical, and peaceful life. It emphasizes on inner calm, moral integrity, and harmony with others. Ehrmann’s tone is gentle, almost meditative,...

Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson is a brief, beautiful meditation on mortality, contentment, and the peaceful acceptance of death.Written as the epitaph Stevenson wished to have on his grave, the poem approaches death without fear or despair....

Should This Life Sometime Deceive You by Alexander Pushkin is a brief but enduring meditation on disappointment, patience, and the changing nature of life.Written in the form of gentle advice to someone facing hardship, the poem reminds us that sorrow...

Written in December 1854, shortly after the disastrous Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War, The Charge of the Light Brigade commemorates the cavalrymen who rode into overwhelming Russian artillery after a mistaken order. Tennyson's poem is both...

A testament to the way of solitude and simplicity, the 21 precepts of the Dokkōdō, also known as The Way of Walking Alone, is one of Musashi's principal legacies. Inspired by his life of combat and the bushido code, Miyamoto Musashi wrote the Dokkōdō...

Written in 1892, during the later years of his life, Leo Tolstoy’s The Morals of Diet reflects the profound spiritual transformation that reshaped his outlook after Anna Karenina and War and Peace. In the decades following his literary success,...

Step into a timeless meditation on life, love, and the human spirit.In The Prophet, Khalil Gibran weaves poetic wisdom through the voice of Almustafa, a traveler who shares profound reflections on everything that shapes our lives—joy and sorrow,...

Few poems have been quoted as often—or misunderstood as thoroughly—as Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken. Published in 1916, it presents a traveler confronted with two diverging paths in a yellow wood and forced to choose between them. On the surface,...

In this audiobook, you will find sung versions of Walt Whitman's poems A noiseless patient spider, I saw in Louisiana, For you O democracy, Oh me! Oh Life! and O Captain! My Captain.Why sing Walt Whitman's poetry?Simply because, on a melancholy day,...