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Poems about Sad

• 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
• Winter Sleep

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

  by Elinor Wylie 30 lines, 1 comment
• Lear

  A poor old king, with sorrow for my crown,
  Throned upon straw, and mantled with the wind—

  by Thomas Hood 15 lines
• Beet e Lamhaat

  tumhaare lahaje me.n jo garmii-o-halaavat hai
  ise bhalaa saa ko_ii naam do vafaa kii jagah

  by Akhtar-Ul-Iman 16 lines, 1 comment
• Song of the Future

  'Tis strange that in a land so strong
  So strong and bold in mighty youth,

  by A B Banjo Paterson 177 lines
• Laddies

  Show me the boy who never threw
  A stone at someone's cat,

  by Edgar Albert Guest 16 lines
• Friends and Foes

  BITTER the things one’s enemies will say
  Against one sometimes when one is away,

  by William Dean Howells 4 lines
• Tomorrow

  OLD fraud, I know you in that gay disguise,
  That air of hope, that promise of surprise:

  by William Dean Howells 6 lines, 2 comments
• Hast Thou Forgotten Me?

  HAST thou forgotten me? the days are dark—
  Light ebbs from heaven, and songless soars the lark—

  by Philip Joseph Holdsworth 29 lines
• A Parting

  "I come ashore off a Cardiff tramp — the worst as ever I see:
  She was all the things you could name," said Bill, "as a ship's

  by Cicely Fox Smith 21 lines
• When Old Man Carey Died

  A night of wind and driving rain,
  No light on land or sky-

  by John O Brien 52 lines
• A Farmhouse on the Wei River

  In the slant of the sun on the country-side,
  Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane;

  by Wang Wei 10 lines, 8 comments
• A los espacios

  A los espacios entregarme quiero
  Donde se vive en paz, y con un manto

  by Jose Marti 29 lines, 1 comment
• The Price Of Victory

  "A VICTORY! --a victory!"
  Is flashed across the wires;

  by Horatio Alger Jr 48 lines
• The world is great

  The world is great!
  The birds fly from me;

  by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 24 lines
• The Unknown Beloved

  I dreamed I passed a doorway
  Where, for a sign of death,

  by John Hall Wheelock 24 lines, 3 comments
• As The Flower Early Gathered

  As the flower early gathered, whilst fresh in its bloom,
  So was she whom I mourn for sent young to the tomb;

  by Lady Caroline Lamb 12 lines
• Derelict

  (Notices to Mariners: 'North Atlantic Ocean, — derelict reported')
  'We left 'er 'eaded for Lord knows where, in latitude forty

  by Cicely Fox Smith 30 lines
• To the Tune

  Breeze soft, sun frail, spring still early.
  In a new lined dress my heart was refreshed,

  by Li Ching Chao 10 lines
• The Tragedienne

  A storm is riding on the tide;
  Grey is the day and grey the tide,

  by Zoe Akins 14 lines
• Past One O'Clock, the third version

  As they say,
  "the incident is closed."

  by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky 10 lines
• My Death

  When Death's pale angel stands before my face,
  With smile unfathomable, stern and chill,

  by Bedros Tourian 28 lines, 4 comments
• The China Sea

  Did you see the poor old hooker, by the ocean wharf she lay?
  Her decks are foul with harbour grime, she hasn't long to stay,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 43 lines
• The Yarn of the Loch Achray

  The Loch Achray was a clipper tall
  With seven-and-twenty hands in all.

  by John Masefield 88 lines
• Ethiopia

  Yes, Ethiopia yet shall stretch
  Her bleeding hands abroad;

  by Frances Ellen Watkins 33 lines, 1 comment
• In High Noon's Heat

  In high noon's heat in a Caucasian valley
  I lay quite still, a bullet in my breast;

  by Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 20 lines
• La perla de la mora

  Una mora de Trípoli tenía
  Una perla rosada, una gran perla:

  by Jose Marti 11 lines
• Epitaph

  ir, you shall notice me: I am the Man;
  I am Good Fortune: I am satisfied.

  by Lascelles Abercrombie 14 lines
• Ladys Tomb

  As in the gardens, all through May, the rose,
  Lovely, and young, and fair apparelled,

  by Pierre de Ronsard 15 lines
• Little Charlie

  A violet grew by the river-side,
  And gladdened all hearts with its bloom;

  by Horatio Alger Jr 40 lines

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