Hope, by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird 
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

(from Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, printed 2016)

Abash – to make someone feel embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

Extremity – the extreme degree or nature of something, as extreme difficulty or adversit