Gorman, 22 and the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, also seemingly referenced the Jan. 6. riot at the Capitol in her poem, entitled “The Hill We Climb." She said that the effort which “would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy” was ultimately futile, as “while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.”

“So, while once we asked how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe, now we assert, how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us? We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be, a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free,” she said.

Gorman, a recent graduate of Harvard University, has been invited to President Barack Obama's White House and performed for former Vice President Al Gore and former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, among others, according to her website. She called for Americans to come together Wednesday.

“We lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside,” she said.

“There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it,” she said to close her poem.

Gorman drew effusive praise on Twitter, from the likes of Hamilton musical creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who tweeted in all caps “YES” in response to her poem reading. Gorman thanked him in a tweet, asking him if he noticed the two Hamilton references she made in the poem.

“I couldn’t help myself!” she wrote.

“You were perfect,” he replied. “Perfectly written, perfectly delivered. Every bit of it. Brava!”

Stacey Abrams, founder of Fair Fight Action and former Georgia Democratic nominee for governor, said in a tweet that Gorman’s “message serves as an inspiration to us all.”

Gorman also caught the eye of Oprah Winfrey.

“I have never been prouder to see another young woman rise!” she said in a tweet. “Maya Angelou is cheering—and so am I.”