I love these 13 poems!

13 Poems That Have Touched My Heart
(With excerpts. Click on the title to view the full poem)

1. "i carry your heart with me" - e.e. cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

2. "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud" - William Wordsworth

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

3. "The Road Not Taken" - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

4. "Phenomenal Woman" - Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

5. "Remember" - Christina Rosetti

Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

6. "Late Starter" - Charles Bukowski

I always became the best
at things when those things
no longer counted:
football, high-speed driving,
drinking, gambling, clowning,
debating, bullshitting, going
to jail, going crazy, lifting
weights, shadow boxing with
fate.

but I was alone.

7. "Invictus" - William Ernest Henley

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

8. "Prayer for a Journey" - Mattie Stepanek

Thank You, God,
For blessing me with the
Gift of Heartsongs,
So that I can enjoy my miracles.

9. "I Will Not Die An Unlived Life" - Dawna Markova

I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.

10. "The Summer Day" - Mary Oliver

Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

11. "Somewhere I have never travelled" - e.e. cummings

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

12. A poem on truth - Todd Anderson's poem from the movie "Dead Poets Society"

"Truth, like, like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold."

13. "Weeping Willow" - Vada's poem from the movie "My Girl"

Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day? Is it because he could not stay? On your branches he would swing, Do you long for the happiness that day would bring? He found shelter in your shade, he thought his laughter would never fade. Weeping willow stop your tears, for there is something to calm your fears. You think death has ripped you forever apart, but I know he'll always be in your heart.

(To better understand choice #13...)