A collection of life-affirming poems to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Poems to Live By and learn which verses can be dispensed to lift your spirits. A brilliant new anthology of 100 poems designed to lift your mood and help you to overcome stress, specific worries and general anxiety. Features well-known favourites alongside undiscovered gems and modern classics. Each poem is introduced, explaining how it can help a certain ‘ailment’ and offering the poem as a helpful prescription. Offering a wide range of verses that will be of great benefit to those in need of a pick-me-up for the soul. 100 Poems to Live By brings together some of the best works from poets spanning centuries, including William Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath and Benjamin Zephaniah. Compiled by Joseph Piercy, these specially selected lines will bring comfort, banish melancholy, provide hope and give courage.
