Poems about Sad

• Copper Ore

  The Jane Price of Swansea
  Thirty days out,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 36 lines
• Childless

  If certain folks that I know well
  Should come to me their woes to tell

  by Edgar Albert Guest 60 lines, 1 comment
• Good-Bye

  Sounds of the seas grow fainter,
    Sounds of the sands have sped;

  by Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) 10 lines, 1 comment
• The Adieu

  We part, and thou art mine no more!
  I go through seas never sought before,

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 35 lines
• Do You Remember Once . . .

  Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces,
  The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays

  by Alan Seeger 68 lines
• Tears for Lesbia’s Sparrow

  I suppose, while strong passion abates,
  it might be a small relief from her pain:

  by Gaius Valerius Catullus 10 lines
• Picture

  Brown for the autumn leaves,
  Green for the tree;

  by Vincent Starrett 8 lines, 3 comments
• Lonely August

  As the locusts sang in the twilight heat
  The Sun no longer baked the city-street,

  by Amelia Wire Holmes Aaron 18 lines, 2 comments
• Victory

  The schools marched in procession in happiness and pride,
  The city bands before them, the soldiers marched beside;

  by Henry Lawson 25 lines
• Past One O'Clock

  She loves me-loves me not.
  My hands I pick

  by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky 72 lines
• De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum.

  When for me this end has come and I am dead,
  and the little voluble, chattering daws of men

  by Richard Realf 41 lines
• The Dead Child

  "\All its innocent thoughts,
  Like rose leaves scattered.\"--

  by Alexander Anderson 51 lines, 2 comments
• On Going Home For Christmas

  He little knew the sorrow that was in his vacant
      chair;

  by Edgar Albert Guest 49 lines, 1 comment
• The Blind Boy

  O SAY what is that thing call’d Light,
  Which I must ne’er enjoy;

  by Colley Cibber 24 lines, 11 comments
• Only a Jockey

  Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light,
  Out on the track where the night shades still lurk,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 40 lines, 1 comment
• Mariquita

  Old man Time, 'e's wrote his log up in the wrinkles on my brow,
  And there ain't that much about me as a girl 'ud take to now;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 20 lines
• The Adieu

  Written Under The Impression That The Author Would Soon Die.
  

  by Lord George Gordon Byron 131 lines
• On The Night Train

  Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by?
  Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry;

  by Henry Lawson 15 lines
• Ay, workman, make me a dream

  Ay, workman, make me a dream,
  A dream for my love.

  by Stephen Maria Crane 7 lines, 1 comment
• Domingo Triste

  Las campanas, el sol, el cielo claro
  me llenan de tristeza, y en los ojos

  by Jose Marti 26 lines
• 'Ostler Joe

  I stood at eve, as the sun went down, by a grave where a woman lies,
  Who lured men's souls to the shores of sin with the light of h

  by George Robert Sims 111 lines, 3 comments
• Man's Ambition

  
  A common grave be then my lot,

  by Marcus Mosiah Garvey 9 lines, 1 comment
• In This World

  In this world
  the living grow fewer,

  by Ono no Komachi 4 lines
• The Dead Child

  ALL silent is the room,
  There is no stir of breath,

  by Victor James Daley 68 lines
• Before A Little Coffin

  Mother has painted the coffin brightly.
  The tiny one sleeps in Sunday attire.

  by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva 16 lines, 2 comments
• A Baby's Death

  A little soul scarce fledged for earth
  Takes wing with heaven again for goal

  by Algernon Charles Swinburne 78 lines
• The Lost Ship

  Come you up from southward, oh, come you there — away?
  And saw you not my ship there that's late now many a day?

  by Cicely Fox Smith 29 lines
• Hollinshead Hall

  Silent the ruined house, slowly rotting and falling;
  Empty the great barns, dumb and lifeless and blind;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 35 lines
• Winter Sleep

  When against earth a wooden heel
  Clicks as loud as stone on steel,

  by Elinor Wylie 30 lines, 1 comment
• There's not a trace of cloud

  There's not a trace of cloud
  Now-and she

  by Saigyo 5 lines, 1 comment

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