When the Going Gets Tough

Poems

• Poem 1: 'Elegy for Himself' by Chidiock Tichbourne (1558-1586)
• Poem 2: 'Life Doesn't Frighten Me' by Maya Angelou (1928-)
• Poem 3: 'Vitaï Lampada' by Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
• Poem 4: 'Song of the Worms' by Margaret Atwood (1939-)
• Poem 5: 'The world is a beautiful place' by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-)
• Poem 6: ‘Light shining out of darkness’ by William Cowper (1731-1800). (This Poem appears in the Anthology but was omitted from the programmes due to lack of space.)