Sad Poems
A Better Ressurection
I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much... more
Poet: Christina Rossetti by: Christina Rossetti | rating:  The Wrong Way Home
All night a door floated down the river.
It tried to remember little incidents of... more
Poet: James Tate by: James Tate | rating: Recovering Amid The Farms
Every morning the sad girl brings her three sheep
and two lambs laggardly to the top of... more
Poet: Jack Gilbert by: Jack Gilbert | rating: Henry James in the Heart of the City
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City.
Nothing would... more
Poet: Erica Jong by: Erica Jong | rating: Elegy
Since I lost you, my darling, the sky has come near,
And I am of it, the small sharp... more
Poet: David Herbert Lawrence by: David Herbert Lawrence | rating: The Gold Lily
As I perceive
I am dying now and know
I will not speak again, will not
survive the... more
Poet: Louise Gluck by: Louise Gluck | rating: You are the father
You are the father,
Not mine but
My father's.
You are with your mother.
She is with... more
Poet: Pivithuru D. Jayakody by: Pivithuru D. Jayakody | rating: Doubt
My soul lives in my body's house,
And you have both the house and her-
But sometimes... more
Poet: Sara Teasdale by: Sara Teasdale | rating: The Country of the Blind
Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men,
Dark bipeds not aware how they... more
Poet: C. S. Lewis by: C. S. Lewis | rating: The Old Well
Crimson streams run down the hillside
Where once happy children played.
Green grass grew... more
Poet: Mary E-A. K. Remaniak by: Mary E-A. K. Remaniak | rating:
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