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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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The Haunted Palace — Edgar Allan Poe	In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace- reared its head. ...	510 views Rate it
Choosing A Profession — Charles Lamb	A Creole boy from the West Indies brought, To be in European learning taught, Some years before to Westminster he went, To a preparatory school was sent....	510 views Rate it
Just Because I'm Naked — Stacey Powells	Just because I’m naked Gives you no right to stare I have my wrinkles, bumps and bruises I’m more than enough I’m more than aware Just because I’m...	508 views Rate it
I — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious hand appears To bear a gift for...	508 views Rate it
The clock is ticking away. — A J C	The clock is ticking away. Like clouds, they hold a lot of rain. Love holds a lot of pain. Your tomorrow's hold a lot of sorrows. And all your sorrows...	506 views Rate it
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray	The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to...	506 views Rate it
A Mother’s Grief — Melody Martinez	In the silent chambers of a mother's soul, A tempest rages, beyond control. Her heart a battlefield, of grief and pain, Where echoes of loss endlessly...	501 views Rate it
How Fortunate the Man with None — Bertolt Brecht	From the play "Mother...	501 views Rate it
Ultima Thule: Jugurtha — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	How cold are thy baths, Apollo! Cried the African monarch, the splendid, As down to his death in the hollow Dark dungeons of Rome he descended, Uncrowned,...	499 views Rate it
The Second Oldest Story — Dorothy Parker	Go I must along my ways Though my heart be ragged, Dripping bitter through the days, Festering, and jagged. Smile I must at every twinge, Kiss, to...	498 views Rate it
Dreamland — Edgar Allan Poe	By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns...	496 views Rate it
The Past — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I. Wilt thou forget the happy hours Which we buried in Love’s sweet bowers, Heaping over their corpses cold Blossoms and leaves, instead of mould?...	495 views Rate it
Sun of the Sleepless! — George Gordon Lord Byron	Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star! Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far, That show'st the darkness thou canst not dispel, How like art thou to joy...	495 views Rate it
The Great Mercy — Katharine Tynan	Betwixt the saddle and the ground Was mercy sought and mercy found. Yea, in the twinkling of an eye, He cried; and Thou hast heard his...	492 views Rate it
Happens to the Heart — Leonard Cohen	I was always working steady But I never called it art I was funding my depression Meeting Jesus reading Marx Sure it failed my little fire But it’s bright...	491 views Rate it
An Octopus — Marianne Moore	ice. Deceptively reserved and flat, it lies 'in grandeur and in mass' beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes; dots of cyclamen-red and maroon on its...	491 views Rate it
The Confessional — Robert Browning	I....	490 views Rate it
Interior — Dorothy Parker	Her mind lives in a quiet room, A narrow room, and tall, With pretty lamps to quench the gloom And mottoes on the...	490 views Rate it
The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother — John Greenleaf Whittier	Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern...	485 views Rate it
Fragment: A Gentle Story Of Two Lovers Young — Percy Bysshe Shelley	A gentle story of two lovers young, Who met in innocence and died in sorrow, And of one selfish heart, whose rancour clung Like curses on them; are ye...	484 views Rate it
Jim — Hilaire Belloc	Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a...	484 views Rate it
A Song for Sita — Anubrato Ghatak	Time it was when we banished were From the riches, the comfort and the ranks, When all I had was the grit in my bones And your brave heart, that made...	483 views Rate it
Abide With Me — Henry Francis Lyte	Abide with us: for it is towards evening, and the day is far spent. -- Luke...	483 views Rate it
Memory — Siegfried Sassoon	When I was young my heart and head were light, And I was gay and feckless as a colt Out in the fields, with morning in the may, Wind on the grass,...	481 views Rate it
Flower — Rabindranath Tagore	Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the...	480 views Rate it