Poems about Sad

• Mejnun's Ghazal

  From whomsoe'er I've sought for troth but bitterest disdain I've seen;
  Whome'er within this faithless world I've trusted, all most vain I've seen.

  by Muhammed Suleyman Oglu Fuzuli 14 lines
• On the Death of a Young Friend, of Fever, at Laguira

  He left his home with a bounding heart,
  For the world was all before him;

  by Alaric Alexander Watts 44 lines
• Tears

  Out of the deep are we,
  Out of that inland sea

  by John Bannister Tabb 4 lines, 1 comment
• After

  WHEN, on an empty night in later years
  Thou ponderest over sorrowful sweet things,

  by Muriel Stuart 14 lines
• The Cold Change

  In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
  (The snowy winter of his summer prime),

  by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 13 lines
• Good-bye

  Good-bye! -- 'tis like a churchyard bell -- good-bye!
  Poor weeping eyes! Poor head, bowed down with woe!

  by Ada Cambridge 20 lines
• To Mother

  In the old Strauss waltz for the first time
  We had listened to your quiet call,

  by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 20 lines
• On A Friends Absence

  Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay
  Doubles each houre of the day:

  by William Strode 25 lines, 1 comment
• No Message

  She heard the story of the end,
  Each message, too, she heard;

  by Mary Hannay Foott 32 lines
• The Ghetto: A Mother

  Cuddling in the arms her half-asphyxiated baby, howling,
  she ran up the staircase of the apartment building that was set ablaze.

  by Anna Swirszczynska 15 lines, 1 comment
• “O’Shea”

  O’Shea was a big railway ganger, clean-hearted, and clean-limbed and shy,
  With a glint of grey hair at his temples, and smile in his Irish blue eye;

  by Alice Guerin Crist 38 lines
• Soneto X

  ¡Oh dulces prendas, por mi mal halladas,
  dulces y alegres cuando Dios quería!

  by Garcilaso de la Vega 15 lines
• The Forgotten Grave

  OUT from the City’s dust and roar,
  You wandered through the open door;

  by Henry Austin Dobson 22 lines, 4 comments
• Shipwreck

  "She struck one night on a sunken ledge
  Off the Scillies, homeward bound,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines
• The Dying Girl

  Sister darling, ope the window, let the balmy air once
  more

  by Mary Weston Fordham 52 lines
• The Mourning Mother

  What woe is thine, pale mother?--say
  What grief devours thy heart? For aye

  by Janet Hamilton 50 lines
• Wind

  I am no more but you live on,
  And the wind, whining and complaining,

  by Boris Pasternak 13 lines, 1 comment
• Grabschrift Marianae Gryphiae,

  my mother's pain, was thrust into the light
  as my land sank in angry, burning night.

  by Andreas Gryphius 18 lines
• Angular

  Other hearts have broken gracefully, for your sake,
  And now your eyes reproach me that my ache

  by Genevieve Taggard 5 lines
• Le Goût du Néant (The Desire for Annihilation)

  Morne esprit, autrefois amoureux de la lutte,
  L'Espoir, dont l'éperon attisait ton ardeur,

  by Charles Baudelaire 102 lines
• Let The Harp Be Mute Forever

  Let the harp be mute for ever,
  Rosa wakes no more the strain,

  by Lady Caroline Lamb 16 lines, 1 comment
• An Evening

  TO break the stillness of the hour
  There is no sound, no voice, no stir;

  by Dora Wilcox 44 lines
• The Journey Home

  Serene as ever waits the tireless train,
  The signals blink their wistful lamps beyond

  by Douglas Gibson 13 lines, 3 comments
• An Old Story

  They threw him in a prison cell;
  He moaned upon his bed.

  by Robert W Service 25 lines, 2 comments
• The Angel of Life

  LIFE’S Angel watched a happy child at play,
  Wreathing the riches of the blushing May:

  by Richard Rowe 10 lines
• Life From 1835 to 1851

  And, now, a vacancy occurs,
  For very nearly sixteen years,

  by William Gay 104 lines, 1 comment
• The Dream Of The World Without Death

  NOW, sitting by her side, worn out with weeping,
  Behold, I fell to sleep, and had a vision,

  by William Cosmo Monkhouse 249 lines, 1 comment
• A Girls' Grave

  What story is here of broken love,
  What idyllic sad romance,

  by Patrick Edward Quinn 40 lines, 2 comments
• Sonnet of Separation

  Suddenly laughter was turned to sorrow
  Silent and white like the mist

  by Vinicius de Moraes 19 lines, 2 comments
• The Child an' the Mowers

  O AYE! they had woone child bezide,
  An' a finer your eyes never met,

  by William Barnes 34 lines

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