Poems, Prayers & Promises is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was released in April, 1971. This album was Denver's commercial breakthrough, and contained several of his most popular songs, such as “Poems, Prayers, and Promises”, “My Sweet Lady”, “I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado”, “Sunshine On My Shoulders”, and “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, which would become one of Denver's signature songs. “The Box”, which concludes the album, is a poem by Kendrew Lascelles illustrating the futility of war.
