<link href="css/100PoemstoLift_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:b5deb324-3277-4bf0-b2e2-33e09cad2632" name="Adept.expected.resource"/></head><body> <div class="galley-rw"> <section class="frontmatter-rw Preface-rw auto-rw page-open-left-rw" epub:type="frontmatter preface" id="pref_1"> <div class="body"><div class="frontsales" id="fron_1"> <p class="fm1"><a href="toc.xhtml#fron_1">In <em>100 Poems to Lift Your Spirits</em>, You’ll Find…</a></p> <p class="fm2"><em>Joy in nature…</em></p> <p class="vtx">“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,</p> <p class="vtx">There is a rapture on the lonely shore,</p> <p class="vtx">There is society, where none intrudes,</p> <p class="vtx">By the deep sea, and music in its roar.”</p> <p class="fsqs"><em>—from “There Is a Pleasure in the Pathless Woods” by Lord Byron</em></p> <p class="fm2"><em>Fun in nonsense and wordplay…</em></p> <p class="vtx">“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,</p> <p class="vtx">Waiting in a hot tureen!</p> <p class="vtx">Who for such dainties would not stoop?</p> <p class="vtx">Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!”</p> <p class="fsqs"><em>—from “Beautiful Soup” by Lewis Carroll</em></p> <p class="fm2"><em>Comfort in words of the spirit…</em></p> <p class="vtx">“All things bright and beautiful,</p> <p class="vtx">All creatures great and small,</p> <p class="vtx">All things wise and wonderful,</p> <p class="vtx">The Lord God made them all.”</p> <p class="fsqs"><em>—from “Maker of Heaven and Earth” by Cecil Frances Alexander</em></p> <p class="fm2"><em>Harmony in our universal human connections…</em></p> <p class="vtx">“There are pioneer souls that blaze the paths</p> <p class="vtx">Where highways never ran—</p> <p class="vtx">But let me live by the side of the road</p> <p class="vtx">And be a friend to man.</p> <p class="fsqs"><em>—from “The House by the Side of the Road” by Sam Walter Foss</em></p> </div></div></section> </div> </body></html>