World Poetry Day 2020: Poems of hope, faith to read during days of coronavirus pandemic, social distancing

From Tagore to Keats and Thomas Hardy, here are nine poems of hope, optimism and courage that can lift your spirit during the times of house quarantine and isolation.

Rabindranath Tagore's 'Hard Times' 

Edgar Albert Guest's 'See It Through'

William Ernest Henley's 'Invictus'

John Keats' 'To Hope'

Thomas Hardy's 'Song of Hope'

Jackie Kay's ' Sound of Sleat'

Stanley Kunitz's 'The Layers'

Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'A Nation's Strength'

Yusef Komunyakaa's 'Believing in Iron'