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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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Saša Milivojev - PRAYER
— Saša Milivojev
I return to you Lord my God
Punish me
Punish me for not loving
Punish me my Lord
For not praying to you enough
So that my hands are not empty
For not...
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Saša Milivojev - SEVERANCE
— Saša Milivojev
To overcome, relinquish
and forget,
black – hearted eyes, as well as innocent,
feigned words of solace
and bitter embrace.
To forget the joys, affections...
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No Control.
— Nikhil Parekh
I could wink exactly when I wanted to; shutting one of my lid with astoundingly articulate dexterity; and in wholesome entirety to the lugubriously...
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Maybe I'm alone
— Leah Hind
I am always alone
I can be in a crowd but always alone
Everyone is too tall they can't see me
They can't hear me
Maybe they do but they don't want...
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Crocodile Teeth and Tears
— Nola Debera Leech
He smiles so wide
You think he could swallow you whole
Baring his teeth
He roars
Screams
His face red, voice hoarse
Your soul sat in the corner,...
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The Moon
— Azarel
Peeking from the curtains of light
 Stands a small existence
known as the moon
No one knows its even there
 For the shy one has no spot
 In the domain of...
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Robin Williams
— Kimberly Ward
Smiles on their faces like thousands of burning lanterns.

I made them smile again - my heart lifts and sinks...
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Farewell
— Bert Leston Taylor
"Farewell!" Another gloomy word
  As ever into language crept.
  'Tis often written, never heard,
  ...
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Odes From Horace. - To Licinius Murena. Book The Second, Ode The Tenth.
— Anna Seward
Not always, dear Licinius, is it wise
On the main Sea to ply the daring Oar;
Nor is it safe, from dread of angry Skies,
Closely to press on the insidious...
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At Twilight Time
— Arthur Macy
At twilight time when tolls the chime,
And saddest notes are falling,
A lonely bird with plaintive word
Across the dusk is calling.
Vain doth it wait for...
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Night. An Epistle To Robert Lloyd.
— Charles Churchill
Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.
 
When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,
In pity's strains, the worst of insolence,
Oft with thee,...
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A Christmas Carol For 1862
— George MacDonald
THE YEAR OF THE TROUBLE IN LANCASHIRE.
 
The skies are pale, the trees are stiff,
The earth is dull and old;
The frost is glittering as if
The very sun...
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King Cophetua and the Beggar-Maid
— George Wharton Edwards
I read that once in Affrica
A princely wight did raine,
Who had to name Cophetua,
As poets they did faine.
From natures lawes he did decline,
For sure he...
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Hialmar Speaks To The Raven
— James Elroy Flecker
Leconte de Lisle
 

 
Night on the bloodstained snow: the wind is chill:
And there a thousand tombless warriors lie,
Grasping their swords,...
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The Cottage Maid.
— Patrick Bronte
Aloft on the brow of a mountain,
And hard by a clear running fountain,
In neat little cot,
Content with her lot,
Retired, there lives a sweet maiden.
 
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A Little Bit Of Blue
— R C Lehmann
When the waves rise high and higher as they toss about together,
And the March-winds, loosed and angry, cut your chilly heart in two,
Here are eighteen...
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A Child's Nightmare
— Robert von Ranke Graves

Through long nursery nights he stood
By my bed unwearying,
Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,
Purring in my haunted ear
That same hideous nightmare...
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How Betsey And I Made Up.
— Will Carleton
GIVE us your hand, Mr. Lawyer: how do you do to-day?
 
"GIVE US YOUR HAND, MR. LAWYER: HOW DO YOU DO TO-DAY?"
 
You drew up that paper--I s'pose you...
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The Sonnets CXL - Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
— William Shakespeare
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my...
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Belle Of The Ball, The
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Years, years ago, ere yet my dreams
Had been of being wise and witty,
Ere I had done with writing themes,
Or yawn'd o'er this infernal Chitty;
Years,...
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The Partition Of Hearts
— Ehsan Sehgal
Sometimes, I conceptualize
And visualize
I feel heart-sinking
I cannot stop
Overflowing tears from my eyes
On the painful picture of partition
Fire,...
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A Tearful End
— Ehsan Sehgal
I am afraid of love
And it is as like
Life-threatening journey
It has not the ending
But one stays suffering
From waiting, worries
And fears
I know
I feel...
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Feeling Of Feeling
— Ehsan Sehgal
Whenever from my eyes
Tears fall as rain
Heart faces pain
Such ties
Between heart and eyes
Burst into my brain
With cries
In my soul reign
I am sensitive...
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Longing
— Manunula/rt
empty
hearts are sad.
you weren't beside me,
I'm getting...
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Anxieties of Corrupted Times
— Suleiman al-fulayyih
…and tonight, Mother, I dreamt of winds sweeping the pasture,
quelling my horses,
expelling my deer,
publicly lashing me with a snake,
binding me behind...
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