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Do you know good poems in the English language?

In April I've got Foreign Language recitation competition. I'm looking for poem with more than 15 lines, but not very long. No abstract, not about love.
Thanks in advance

For learning: English
Base language: English
Category: Culture

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    How about this one? Is it too abstract?
    I don't think you need to be religious for it to have meaning.

    Our Greatest Fear —Marianne Williamson (not Nelson Mandela)

    It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
    Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
    Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
    It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
    We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
    talented and fabulous?

    Actually, who are you not to be?
    You are a child of God.
    Your playing small does not serve the world.
    There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
    people won't feel insecure around you.

    We were born to make manifest the glory of
    God that is within us.

    It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
    And as we let our own light shine,
    we unconsciously give other people
    permission to do the same.

    As we are liberated from our own fear,
    our presence automatically liberates others.

    Walt Whitman is one of my favorite poets. http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1867/poems/27

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