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From words to live by, to the challenges of life, to finding happiness, there is a lot to enjoy in this category. If you've only time for one, try Barter, by Sara Teasdale. You may also want to browse the many poems about the Stages of Life.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. - Carl Sandburg

1. The Echoing Green by William Blake

   the children play and the old folks watch and remember

2. Life by Charlotte Brontë

   making the most of life

3. To a Mouse by Robert Burns

   the uncertainties of life

4. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

   the decisions you make in life

5. The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss

   a philosophy of life

6. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick

   making the most of life

7. My Friend, The Things That Do Attain by Henry Howard

   advice on what makes a good life

8. The Human Seasons by John Keats

   as in nature there are four seasons in the mind of man

9. Young and Old by Charles Kingsley

   advice on how to live your life

10. If by Rudyard Kipling

    what you can accomplish in life

11. Loss and Gain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    assessing your life

12. A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    advice on how to live your life

13. The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    lessons for life from a hard-working man

14. Figs by Edna St. Vincent Millay

    a philosophy of life

15. A Little Song of Life by Lizette Woodworth Reese

    glad for the small joys of life

16. Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti

    the long road of life

17. Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    the ever-changing nature of life

18. The Tree of My Life by Edward Rowland Sill

    how we wander in life, return to our 'roots', and realize their value

19. Barter by Sara Teasdale

    the joys in life outweigh the sorrows

20. In the Long Run by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    all things in life end up as they should eventually