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Welcome to our collection of poems about melancholy! The feeling of melancholy is a complex emotion that has long inspired poets to create some of the most beautiful and haunting verses. Our collection brings together a range of poems that explore the depths of this emotional state, from the pain of lost love to the ache of nostalgia. These poems capture the essence of melancholy through their evocative language and vivid imagery, inviting readers to embrace their own feelings of sadness and introspection. Whether you're seeking solace or simply appreciating the beauty of language, our collection offers a powerful exploration of the human condition. So come and immerse yourself in the rich and complex world of melancholy through the power of poetry.

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A collection of poems about unrequited love, oppression, and life. — The Disconnected Philosopher	I feel like I can't breathe And all these worries plant needs but granted I can't leave. Elevating to the point where I can't meet these standards, All...	9 views Rate it
A Commonplace Song — George Essex Evans	Ebbs and flows the restless river In the city street Where the great nerve centres quiver, Where the pulses beat. Where the human waves are driving Drifts...	102 views Rate it
A Commuted Sentence — Ambrose Bierce	Boruck and Waterman upon their grills In Hades lay, with many a sigh and groan, Hotly disputing, for each swore his own Were clearly keener than the...	106 views Rate it
A Company of Fiends — Joseph Mark Ippolito	A Company O’ Fiends Tae’ spy whit few hae’ spied Suffice tae’ spin this tale Wan white horse o’ hell, none much can tell Oan wing an’ surly...	102 views Rate it
A Complaint On The Miseries Of Life — James Thomson	I loathe, O Lord, this life below, And all its fading fleeting joys; 'Tis a short space that's fill'd with woe, Which all our bliss by far outweighs. ...	100 views Rate it
A Complete 100 Floors — Nikhil Parekh	Scores of squeals inundated the atmosphere; clusters of people hugged each other close in utter...	18 views Rate it
A Confession — Agnes Louise Storrie	You did not know, - how could you, dear, - How much you stood for? Life in you Retained its touch of Eden dew, And ever through the droughtiest year My...	109 views Rate it
A Confession To A Friend in Trouble — Thomas Hardy	YOUR troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Here, far away, than when I tarried near; I even smile old smiles--with listlessness-- ...	140 views Rate it
A Confession to You — Amerilie Ang	My desire for you has brought nothing but pain, Every time I see you, in pictures or person, I feel as though I am impaled by a weapon. Every second I...	64 views Rate it
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem — La Fontaine	NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles, Engaging looks, soft tears, and...	99 views Rate it
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem — Jean de La Fontaine	NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing smiles, Engaging looks, soft tears, and...	24 views Rate it
A Congratulatory Poem — Aphra Behn	While my sad Muse the darkest Covert Sought, To give a loose to Melancholy Thought; Opprest, and sighing with the Heavy Weight Of an Unhappy dear Lov'd...	142 views Rate it
A Connachtman — Padraic Colum	IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet, Nor my wake house a silent place : For who would keep back the hundreds Who would touch my breast and my...	113 views Rate it
A constant lover lamenteth. — Henry Howard	SINCE fortune's wrath envieth the wealth Wherein I reigned, by the sight Of that, that fed mine eyes by stealth With sour, sweet, dread, and delight ; Let...	34 views Rate it
A Contemplation — Anne Kingsmill Finch	Indulg'd by ev'ry active thought When upwards they wou'd fly Nor can Ambition be a fault If plac'd above the sky When humbld first we meekly crave...	76 views Rate it
A Contemplation upon Flowers — Henry King	BRAVE flowers--that I could gallant it like you, And be as little vain! You come abroad, and make a harmless show, And to your beds of earth...	136 views Rate it
A Conversation — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev	'Neither the Jungfrau nor the Finsteraarhorn has yet been trodden by the foot of man!' The topmost peaks of the Alps ... A whole chain of rugged...	7 views Rate it
A Conversation At Dawn — Thomas Hardy	He lay awake, with a harassed air, And she, in her cloud of loose lank hair, Seemed trouble-tried As the dawn drew in on their faces there. The...	18 views Rate it
A Conversation Between our Broken Souls — Kaelyn Wellman	“I’m sorry I ever met you” “Why?” “Because all I’ve ever done is cause you pain” “Funny” “What?” “I was going to say I did the same to you” “You...	23 views Rate it
A Coronet for his Mistress, Philosophy — George Chapman	Muses that sing love's sensual empery, And lovers kindling your enraged fires At Cupid's bonfires burning in the eye, Blown with the empty breath...	121 views Rate it
A Corymbus For Autumn — Francis Thompson	Hearken my chant, 'tis As a Bacchante's, A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt 'tis! Suffer my singing, Gipsy of Seasons, ere thou go...	139 views Rate it
A Cottage In A Chine. — Jean Ingelow	We reached the place by night, And heard the waves breaking: They came to meet us with candles alight To show the path we were taking. A myrtle, trained...	10 views Rate it
A Counsel — Algernon Charles Swinburne	O strong Republic of the nobler years Whose white feet shine beside time's fairer flood That shall flow on the clearer for our blood Now shed, and the...	4 views Rate it
A Counting-Out Song — Rudyard Kipling	What is the song the children sing, When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring, And the Schools are loosed, and the games are played That were deadly earnest...	238 views Rate it
A Country God — Edmund Blunden	WHEN groping farms are lanterned up And stolchy ploughlands hid in grief, And glimmering byroads catch the drop That weeps from sprawling twig and leaf,...	92 views Rate it