Short Inspirational Poems

Happiness

To complain that life has no joys;

While there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty.

Assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is just as rational as to die of thirst with a cup in our hands.

Thomas Fitzoborne

Home and Happiness

If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

And they are fools who roam;

The world has nothing to bestow,

From our own selves our bliss must flow,  And that dear hut – our home.

Nathaniel Cotton

Give Thanks

Give thanks for sorrow teaches you courage,

And give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still,

The veil that hides you from the infinite,

Which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

Robert Nathan