Poems
- "Life", a poem by Charlotte Allen (What is our life? 'Tis like a flower)
- "Life" by Cora C. Bass (Life is like the ocean)
- "Life" by Charlotte Brontë (Life, believe, is not a dream)
- "Life", a poem by Frances Elizabeth Browne (O checkered life! though numerous ills)
- "Life" by Florence Earle Coates (Thou art more ancient than the oldest skies)
- "Life" by Florence Earle Coates (Before we knew thee thou wert with us; ay)
- "Life" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (As late I journeyed o’er the extensive plain)
- "Life" by Abraham Cowley (We're ill by these grammarians us'd)
- "Life" by S. Donald Cox (Lilt of a child's gay laughter)
- "Life" by Olive Custance (I play with life on different days)
- "Life" by Paul Laurence Dunbar (A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in)
- "Life" by Richard Watson Gilder (Great Universe—what dost thou with thy dead!)
- "Life" by Thomas Gisborne (A Soldier's course from battles won)
- "Life" by Mattie Griffith (Oh, life is very, very beautiful)
- "Life", a poem by Mary Whitwell Hale (At day's sweet dawn, the traveler's feet)
- "Life" by George Herbert (I made a posie, while the day ran by)
- "Life" by Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblower (The mystery of life—oh how it weighs)
- "Life" by William Dean Howells (Once a thronged thoroughfare that wound afar)
- "Life", a poem by Rebecca Queen Jordan (The longest story shaped by lips, left something still untold;)
- "Life", a poem by Mary Eliza Perine Tucker Lambert (Life? What is life but fleeting bliss,)
- "Life" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon (It is in vain—)
- "Life" by Andrew Francis Lockhart (Just a little night-time)
- "Life" by William Motherwell (O Life! what is thy quest?—What owns this world)
- "Life" by Sarojini Naidu (Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems)
- "Life", a poem by Mary Hunt McCaleb Odom (Life is a problem strange and deep,)
- "Life" by João de Deus de Nogueira Ramos, translated by Watson Kirkconnell (Life is a moment's maze)
- "Life" by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (Oh sadness of decay!)
- "Life" by Mary C. Ryan (Oh! what is life, but a short breath,)
- "Life" by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (Life is like a painted dream)
- "Life" by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (Life, passing like the morning ray)
- "Life" by Eliza Jane Stephens (We linger here a little time)
- "Life" by Jaroslav Vrchlický (Though your life be straight or turning)
- "Life" by Edith Wharton (Life, like a marble block, is given to all)
- "Life" by Edith Wharton (Nay, lift me to thy lips, Life, and once more)
- "Life" by Jeannie Copes White (Light and shade, light and shade—)
- "Life" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (I feel the great immensity of life)
- "Life" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Life, like a romping schoolboy, full of glee)
- "Life" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Oh! I feel the growing glory)
- "Life" by T. F. Young (What is life?" I asked a lad,)
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