Sad Poems

Convalescent
How shall I wail, that wasn't meant for weeping?
Love has run and left me, oh, what... more

Poet: Dorothy Parker

by: Dorothy Parker | rating:

A Virginal
No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
I will not spoil my sheath with lesser... more

Poet: Ezra Pound

by: Ezra Pound | rating:

At First. To Charlotte Cushman.
My crippled sense fares bow'd along
His uncompanioned way,
And wronged by death pays... more

Poet: Sidney Lanier

by: Sidney Lanier | rating:

Luck Unexpected
Looking up
He saw seven stars streak across a cloudless sky.
Seven wishes he did... more

Poet: Barvan Alvarado

by: Barvan Alvarado | rating:

Ebony Life
A frightening stillness will mark that day
And the shadow of streetlights and fire-alarms... more

Poet: Robert Desnos

by: Robert Desnos | rating:

Days
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And... more

Poet: Ralph Waldo Emerson

by: Ralph Waldo Emerson | rating:

Flying at Forty
You call me
courageous,
I who grew up
gnawing on books,
as some kids
gnaw
on bubble... more

Poet: Erica Jong

by: Erica Jong | rating:

The White Lilies
As a man and woman make
a garden between them like
a bed of stars, here
they linger in... more

Poet: Louise Gluck

by: Louise Gluck | rating:

sail on
sail on,
when the sun is gone
when the wind rises
off a river slow
when you hear no... more

Poet: W. Jude Aher

by: W. Jude Aher | rating:

In the Black Forest
I lay beneath the pine trees,
And looked aloft, where, through
The dusky, clustered... more

Poet: Amy Levy

by: Amy Levy | rating: