Poems about Meaning of Life

Here is a collection of poems reflecting, in one way or the other, on the general meaning of life.  These are poems about life, its meaning or a lack thereof. These works span the entire breadth of recorded literary history and represent most stylistic movements and major languages (even though all poems and articles in this section are in English or they were translated into English).

• The Handsome Heart poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Half-way House poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Habit Of Perfection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Child Is Father To The Man poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Candle Indoors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Caged Skylark poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Bugler’s First Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• The Alchemist in the City poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Summa poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Strike, Churl poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• St. Winefred’s Well poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Spring poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Ribblesdale poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Repeat That, Repeat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Pied Beauty poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Penmaen Pool poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Peace poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Patience, Hard Thing! The Hard Thing But To Pray poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Moonrise poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Moonless darkness stands between poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Love Preparing to Fly poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Inversnaid poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Hurrahing In Harvest poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Hope Holds to Christ poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Henry Purcell poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Heaven–Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• God’s Grandeur poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• For A Picture Of St. Dorothea poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Felix Randal poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Epithalamion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Easter Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Duns Scotus’s Oxford poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
• Denis poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems