Famous Resilience Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Resilience poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous resilience poems. These examples illustrate what a famous resilience poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Juggler

by Richard Wilbur
 A ball will bounce; but less and less. It's not
A light-hearted thing, resents its own resilience.
Falling is what it loves, and the earth falls
So in our hearts from brilliance, 
Settles and is forgot.
It takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls

To shake our gravity up. Whee, in the air 
The balls roll around, wheel on his wheeling hands, 
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