Leading from within : poetry that sustains the courage to lead / Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner, editors ; foreword by Madeline K. Albright ; introduction by Parker J. Palmer ; afterword by David Whyte.

Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses / reflection by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Emily Dickinson's Hope is the thing with feathers / reflection by Nicole Gagnon
Langston Hughes's Madam's calling cards / reflection by Kyle Dodson
William Stafford's The way it is / reflection by Michael Intrator
William Carlos Williams's Asphodel, that greeny flower / reflection by Peter S. Temes
Reinhold Niebuhr's The irony of American history / reflection by Rosemary Jordano Shore
William Blake's Songs of innocence / reflection by Michael Singleton
Gary Snyders's For the children / reflection by Betsy Taylor
Theodore Roethke's Cuttings later / reflection by Brian D. McLaren
T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding / reflection by Kathleen Kostelny
Marge Piercy's To be of use / reflection by Martha Bergmark
Eugene McCarthy's Ares / reflection by Mary Beth Yarrow
Adrienne Rich's In those years / reflection by Peter Karoff
Wendell Berry's A vision / reflection by Barbara Hummel
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 / reflection by Orli Cotel
Denise Levertov's The avowal / reflection by Craig Dykstra
Marge Piercy's The seven of pentacles / reflection by Jake B. Schrum
Naomi Shihab Nye's The art of disappearing / reflection by Ted Falcon
T.S. Eliot's The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / reflection by Joseph L. Subbiondo
William Ayot's The contract / reflection by Geoff Bellman
Amelia Earhart's Courage / reflection by John Wimmer
William Stafford's Listening / reflection by David Brooks Andrews
Naomi Shihab Nye's Adios / reflection by Pamela Seigle
Ghalib's For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river / reflection by Ann Myers
Mary Oliver's Spring azures / reflection by Bonnie Allen
William Blake's Auguries of innocence / reflection by James O'Leary
Judy Sorum Brown's Trough / reflection by Linda Wolfe
Rumi's Childhood friends / reflection by Karen E. Adams
Langston Hughes's Mother to son / reflection by Estrus Tucker
Yehuda Amichai's End of Elul / reflection by Liz Lerman
Carol Prejean Zippert's When you get lost / reflection by Tom Beech
Henry Nouwen's Work around your abyss / reflection by John Marston
Gabriela Mistral's Daybreak/Amanecer / reflection by Sandra P. Daley
Mark Nepo's Accepting this / reflection by Wayne Muller
David Wagoner's Lost / reflection by Peter Senge
Rainer Maria Rilke's I am too alone in the world, and not alone enough / reflection by Bill White
John O'Donohue's Fluent / reflection by Carla M. Dahl
Tao Ching's #33 / reflection by Kevin Fickenscher
David Whyte's The opening of eyes / reflection by Hanna B. Sherman
William Ernest Henley's Invictus / reflection by David J. Garren
Nevin Compton Trammell's I'm tired, I'm whipped / reflection by Karen Lee Turner
Yehuda Amichai's The diameter of the bomb / reflection by Howie Schaffer
Rainer Maria Rilke's The panther / reflection by David C. Leach
William Stafford's With Kit, age 7, at the beach / reflection by Lee Rush
Pablo Neruda's XXXI / reflection by Tony Deifell
William Butler Yeats's The lover pleads with friends for old friends / reflection by Jim McDermott
Robert Frost's Mending wall / reflection by Adam Bunting
Mary Oliver's The ponds / reflection by James A. Autry
Wallace Stevens's The pleasures of merely circulating / reflection by Joan Blades
Robert Frost's The road not taken / reflection by James E. Rogers
Charles Simic's Stone / reflection by Dean Conway
Wendell Berry's Sabbaths / reflection by Jay F. Smith
W.H. Auden's After reading a child's guide to modern physics / reflection by Eric Walsh
Paul Mariani's The peaceable kingdom / reflection by Robert (Chip) Wood
Stephen Spender's The truly great / reflection by Betty Sue Flowers
Rabindranath Tagore's The grasp of your hand / reflection by L.J. Rittenhouse
Mary Oliver's What I have learned so far / reflection by Paul Batalden
Billy Collins's The night house / reflection by Sterling K. Speirn
Robert Browning's Andrea del Sarto / reflection by Harry Barnes
Ezzeddin Nasafi's Oh, my friend / reflection by Charles Gibbs
Jack Gilbert's The abnormal is not courage / reflection by Jim Burke
Ibn Arabi's There was a time I would reject those / reflection by Eboo Patel
Winston O. Abbott's Let me remember / reflection by Annie Goeke de La Bouillerie
Rumi's What is this fragrance / reflection by Jamal Rahman
Reb Nachman's The entire world is a very narrow bridge / reflection by Jaime Banks
Seamus Heaney's The cure at Troy / reflection by Doug Tanner
Kenneth Patchen's In order to / reflection by Peter Pollard
William Butler Yeats's Earth, fire and water / reflection by Elizabeth A. Keene Reder
Holly Near's The rock will wear away / reflection by Tammy Baldwin
Robert Creeley's The warning / reflection by Dan Wieden
Langston Hughes's Let America be America again ; Countee Cullen's Yet do I marvel / reflection by Linda K. Bowen
Walt Whitman's Song of the open road / reflection by Janet Tiebout Hanson
Louis MacNeice's Snow / reflection by Irene Martin
Emily Dickinson's I dwell in possibility / reflection by Eileen Quinn
Wislawa Szymborska's A note / reflection by Billy Shore
Claudia Schmidt's Replenish / reflection by Molly Anderson
Liz Rosenberg's In the end we are all light / reflection by Ted Lord
May Sarton's All souls / reflection by Patricia E. de Jong
Hafiz's How do I listen? / reflection by Pat Moore Harbour
Emily Dickinson's Tell all the truth but tell it slant / reflection by Thomas B. Coburn
Robert Service's The spell of the Yukon / reflection by Linda Chamberlain
Martin Luther King Jr.'s The drum major instinct / reflection by Jim Kielsmeier
Thich Nhat Hanh's For warmth / reflection by Henry Emmons
Robert Frost's Directive / reflection by Tom Allen
Judy Sorum Brown's Fire / reflection by Becky van der Bogert
Daisy Zamora's Song of hope / reflection by Kathleen Gille
Lao Tzu's The uses of not / reflection by Peter Schneider
Naomi Shihab Nye's Kindness / reflection by Lois Capps
Robert Hayden's Those Winter Sundays / reflection by Brian Dunlap
William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey / reflection by Carol Tecla Christ
Wendell Berry's The peace of wild things / reflection by Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer
William Stafford's Silver star / reflection by Diana Chapman Walsh
Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses / reflection by John C. Bogle.