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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 Spring Running — Rudyard Kipling	Man goes to Man! Cry the challenge through the Jungle! He that was our Brother goes away. Hear, now, and judge, O ye People of the Jungle-- Answer, who...	478 views Rate it
Further in Summer than the Birds — Emily Dickinson	Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive...	478 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...	476 views Rate it
Oysters — Jonathan Swift	Charming oysters I cry: My masters, come buy, So plump and so fresh, So sweet is their flesh, No Colchester oyster Is sweeter and moister: Your stomach...	476 views Rate it
Alas! So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace — Henry Howard	Alas! so all things now do hold their peace, Heaven and earth disturbed in nothing. The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease, The night{:e}s...	476 views Rate it
It might be lonelier — Emily Dickinson	It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness— I'm so accustomed to my Fate— Perhaps the...	476 views Rate it
To-- One word is too often profaned — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For...	475 views Rate it
We are Seven — William Wordsworth	--------A Simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of...	473 views Rate it
Why Choose to Die When You Can Fly — Cristina Kim	Why choose to die when you can fly? Little bird, try and spread your wings across the sky. Because after you’ve tried and there’s no one to guide, ...	473 views Rate it
One With The Ruined Sunset — William Ernest Henley	One with the ruined sunset, The strange forsaken sands, What is it waits, and wanders, And signs with desparate...	473 views Rate it
Sick Leave — Siegfried Sassoon	When I’m asleep, dreaming and lulled and warm,— They come, the homeless ones, the noiseless dead. While the dim charging breakers of the storm Bellow...	472 views Rate it
Little Words — Dorothy Parker	When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little...	471 views Rate it
Supremacy — Edwin Arlington Robinson	There is a drear and lonely tract of hell From all the common gloom removed afar: A flat, sad land it is, where shadows are, Whose lorn estate my verse...	470 views Rate it
King Claudius — Constantine P. Cavafy	My mind now moves to distant places. I'm walking the streets of Elsinore, through its squares, and I recall the very sad story- that unfortunate king...	470 views Rate it
Sonnet — James Weldon Johnson	My heart be brave, and do not falter so, Nor utter more that deep, despairing wail. Thy way is very dark and drear I know, But do not let thy strength...	466 views Rate it
Canzone — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Ah me! ah me! when thinking of the years, The vanished years, alas, I do not find Among them all one day that was my own! Fallacious hope; desires of the...	466 views Rate it
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory — William Butler Yeats	Now that we're almost settled in our house I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us Beside a fire of turf in th' ancient tower, And having talked...	465 views Rate it
Joy — Robinson Jeffers	Though joy is better than sorrow joy is not great; Peace is great, strength is great. Not for joy the stars burn, not for joy the vulture Spreads her gray...	465 views Rate it
Address to the Devil — Robert Burns	1 O thou! whatever title suit thee,-- 2 Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie! 3 Wha in yon cavern, grim an' sootie, 4 Clos'd under...	465 views Rate it
The Twelve — Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok	III Our sons have gone to serve the Reds to serve the Reds to risk their...	465 views Rate it
A Thunderstorm in Town — Thomas Hardy	She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress, And we stayed, because of the pelting storm, Within the hansom's dry recess, Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless...	464 views Rate it
Birth And Death — Algernon Charles Swinburne	Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother, Night and day, on all things that draw breath, Reign, while time keeps friends with one another Birth and...	464 views Rate it
Amazing Grace — John Newton	Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound!) That sav'd a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I...	463 views Rate it
The Sleeper — Edgar Allan Poe	At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, ...	463 views Rate it
Twice a Week the Winter Thorough — Alfred Edward Housman	Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man's...	457 views Rate it