Every Night is Full of Stars

More Meaningful Poems for Life

Aoibhín Garrihy

• Publisher: Eriu
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781804184479
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Every Night is a Full of Stars: More Meaningful Poems for Life is a beautiful collection of poetry chosen by Aoibhín Garrihy to bring solace and joy to our stressful modern lives. Themes include love and loss, hope and peace, self-discovery and identity, and each poem has been specially selected for its power to delight and inspire .

With lines of classic and contemporary wisdom taken from a wide range of poets including Donna Ashworth, Emily Dickinson, Brother Richard, W.B. Yeats and Christina Rossetti, this anthology will bring joy to every reader.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction – Aoibhín Garrihy
• Guest House – Rumi
• Small Kindnesses – Danusha Laméris
• Every Night is Full of Stars – Aoibhín Garrihy
• A Greeting – W.H. Davis
• I Meant to Do My Work Today – Richard Le Gallienne
• Being Boring – Wendy Cope
• Victories – Joshua Seigal
• Serenity Prayer – Brian Bilston
• Mobile Meditation – Brother Richard
• Yes – Muriel Rukeyser
• I’m Nobody! Who are you? – Emily Dickinson
• Solitude – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Sonnet 29 – William Shakespeare
• The Ideal – James Fenton
• Sound Body – Jan Brierton
• Unstoppable – Donna Ashworth
• The Winds of Fate – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• The Sea Question – Elizabeth Smither
• The Waves at Spanish Point – Rachael Hegarty
• West of Fanny O’Dea’s – Alice Guerin Crist
• Postscript – Seamus Heaney
• Twilight – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Sun Has Set – Emily Brontë
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats
• The BBC Reports – Anne Casey
• I Want to Live a Little Life – Erin Hanson
• Self-care – Karen McMillan
• Love’s Philosophy – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Rondeau – Leigh Hunt
• Mouthful of Forevers – Clementine von Radics
• If I Had Three Lives – Sarah Russell
• If Thou Must Love Me – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• The Lovers – Timothy Liu
• Between – Micheal O’Siadhail
• Maturing Love – Eugene Garrihy
• Take Love for Granted – Jack Ridl
• Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art – John Keats
• I’m Sorry – Atticus
• The Day of Our Divorce Hearing – Ruth Lepson
• In the Meantime – Tom Hirons
• A Summing Up – Charles MacKay
• Escape at Bedtime – Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Boy Who Calls Me Mammy – Emma Flynn
• Stairs – Steve Denehan
• The Hundred Names of Love – Annie Lighthart
• I’ll Come to You When You Call – Jessica Urlichs
• The Best Medicine – Meg Cox
• May We Raise Children Who Love the Unloved Things – Nicolette Sowder
• Advice To a Girl – Sara Teasdale
• Only a Dad – Edgar Albert Guest
• The Thousandth Man – Rudyard Kipling
• Outgrown – Penelope Shuttle
• To a Daughter Leaving Home – Linda Pastan
• On Your Twenty-First Birthday – Elizabeth A.I. Powell
• Leave-taking – Cecil Rajendra
• Dirge Without Music – Edna St. Vincent Millay
• The Power of the Dog – Rudyard Kipling
• When You Meet Someone Deep in Grief – Patricia McKernon Runkle
• When I am Dead, My Dearest – Christina Rossetti
• Crabbit Old Woman – Phyllis McCormack
• A Nurse’s Reply – Phyllis McCormack
• The Nurse – Katharine Tynan
• The Breath of History – Mary Dorcey
• Hope and I – Susan Coolidge
• A Dream Within a Dream – Edgar Allan Poe
• The Clock of Life is Wound But Once – Robert H. Smith
• Dreams – D.H. Lawrence
• What is Success? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Index of First Lines
• Acknowledgements
• About the author