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Poems about Sad

• Himself

  Last night, when I was listenin’
  Alone, to wind and rain,

  by Alice Guerin Crist 53 lines, 28 comments
• The Ballad Of The Landlord

  Landlord, landlord,
  My roof has sprung a leak.

  by Langston Hughes 39 lines, 8 comments
• Feelings

  There must be a wound!
  No one can be this hurt

  by Spike Milligan 12 lines, 40 comments
• The Great Hunger

  Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
  Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move

  by Patrick Kavanagh 766 lines, 5 comments
• A Dream Of Death

  I DREAMED that one had died in a strange place
  Near no accustomed hand,

  by William Butler Yeats 12 lines, 5 comments
• Around The Corner

  Around the corner I have a friend,
  In this great city that has no end,

  by Charles Hanson Towne 0 lines, 6 comments
• Karbala Part I

  Jab qata ki masafat e shab aaftaab ne
  Jalwa kiya sahar ke rukhe behijaab ne

  by Mir Babar Ali Anees 313 lines, 6 comments
• I Am Going To Sleep (Suicide Poem)

  Teeth of flowers, hairnet of dew,
  hands of herbs, you, perfect wet nurse,

  by Alfonsina Storni 16 lines, 3 comments
• Suicide Off Egg Rock

  Behind him the hotdogs split and drizzled
  On the public grills, and the ochreous salt flats,

  by Sylvia Plath 26 lines, 3 comments
• A Little Boy Lost

  "Nought loves another as itself,
  Nor venerates another so,

  by William Blake 24 lines, 8 comments
• A Brown Girl Dead

  With two white roses on her breasts,
  White candles at head and feet,

  by Countee Cullen 9 lines, 1 comment
• Little Little Man

  Little little man, little little man,
  set free your canary that wants to fly.

  by Alfonsina Storni 14 lines, 3 comments
• Ballad Of Birmingham

  "Mother dear, may I go downtown       
  Instead of out to play,

  by Dudley Randall 38 lines
• Karbala Part II

  Jheelon se chaar paaye na uthte thay taaba shaam
  Maskan mein machliyoon ke samandar ka tha maqaam

  by Mir Babar Ali Anees 241 lines
• When I Suspected

  So each passing minute with you
  Pendulummed with sadness.

  by Spike Milligan 8 lines, 33 comments
• The Other Side Of A Mirror

  I sat before my glass one day,
  And conjured up a vision bare,

  by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 32 lines, 1 comment
• The Broken Drum

  There is sorrow in the household;
  There's a grief too hard to bear;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 32 lines, 5 comments
• The Dunciad: Book IV

  Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light
  Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!

  by Alexander Pope 656 lines, 3 comments
• Welcome Home

  Unaware of my crime
  they stood me in the dock.

  by Spike Milligan 8 lines, 5 comments
• Farewell

  Farewell, dear, young friends;
  though parting is painful,

  by William Anderson Ellis 15 lines
• Le Mort Joyeux (The Joyful Corpse)

  Dans une terre grasse et pleine d'escargots
  Je veux creuser moi-même une fosse profonde,

  by Charles Baudelaire 114 lines
• Trapped Dingo

  So here, twisted in steel, and spoiled with red
  your sunlight hide, smelling of death and fear,

  by Judith Wright 19 lines, 5 comments
• The Eyes Of My Regret

  Always at dusk, the same tearless experience,
  The same dragging of feet up the same well-worn path

  by Angelina Weld Grimke 20 lines
• The Kiss

  When you lay before me dead,
  in such a pallid rest;

  by Julia Caroline (Ripley) Dorr 24 lines, 13 comments
• Goodbye S.S.

  Go away girl, go away
      and let me pack my dreams

  by Spike Milligan 7 lines, 6 comments
• Tell Me Why

  TELL me why, behind thee,
  I see always the shadow of another lover?

  by Stephen Maria Crane 8 lines, 1 comment
• Sweet Torture

  My melancholy was gold dust in your hands;
  On your long hands I scattered my life;

  by Alfonsina Storni 8 lines, 3 comments
• The Superfluous Woman

  Ghosts crying down the vistas of the years,
  Recalling words

  by Vera Brittain 21 lines
• En la muerte de un poeta (With English Translation)

  He proved divine delight, knew grace untold,
  Beheld the Cross uplifted and, before

  by Ruben Dario 35 lines
• Jerusalem

  I wept until my tears were dry
  I prayed until the candles flickered

  by Nizar Qabbani 37 lines, 2 comments

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