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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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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...	462 views Rate it
Football — Robert curran	-- The grinding painful struggle Of chasing a pigskin around a puddle Sliding around in the mud and trying To catch a football that has been sent flying...	459 views Rate it
Spring Night — Sara Teasdale	The park is filled with night and fog, The veils are drawn about the world, The drowsy lights along the paths Are dim and...	459 views Rate it
The Shell — James Stephens	AND then I pressed the shell Close to my ear And listened well, And straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant...	457 views Rate it
When We Two Parted — George Gordon Lord Byron	When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Truly that hour...	456 views Rate it
Mutability — Percy Bysshe Shelley	We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night...	456 views Rate it
In my time of need. — A J C	In my time of need,. When you have arrived, I can see a glow in your pretty blue eyes, and I can see your golden hair as it blows in the cool summer...	455 views Rate it
A Road Less Traveled — Seth Haynes Warner	There was a time, It was many years ago, I found myself hitchhiking, Down a lonesome, barren road. This long desert highway, Was so desolate in...	454 views Rate it
The Marshes of Glynn — Sidney Lanier	Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs, --...	454 views Rate it
The Holy Grail — Alfred Lord Tennyson	From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called The Pure, Had passed into the...	454 views Rate it
The Rocking Chair — Betsy Wokersien Stephens	She gathers her thoughts as she rocks in the chair And stares out the window into the thin air Alone with the memories that dance in her mind The old...	453 views Rate it
Ladder of St. Augustine, The — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of...	453 views Rate it
To A Gentleman And Lady On The Death Of The Lady's Brother And Sister, And A Child Of The Name Of Avis, Aged One Year — Phillis Wheatley	ON Death's domain intent I fix my eyes, Where human nature in vast ruin lies: With pensive mind I search the drear abode, Where the great conqu'ror has...	452 views Rate it
One Drop — Gisela Vigil	Like an eerie peacefulness riding on the skirt of turbulence within the eye of a storm, there is a lull that goes unnoticed. I hear it as I stand...	451 views Rate it
Heat — Archibald Lampman	From plains that reel to southward, dim, The road runs by me white and bare; Up the steep hill it seems to swim Beyond, and melt into the...	451 views Rate it
The Epicure — Abraham Cowley	FILL the bowl with rosy wine, Around our temples roses twine. And let us cheerfully awhile, Like the wine and roses smile. Crown'd with roses we contemn...	450 views Rate it
Jacinths And Jessamines — Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Jacinths and jessamines and jonquils sweet, All odorous pale flowers from Orient lands, No vain red roses strew I at thy feet, Emblems of grief and thee,...	449 views Rate it
A Child's Nightmare — Robert Graves	Through long nursery nights he stood By my bed unwearying, Loomed gigantic, formless, queer, Purring in my haunted ear That same hideous nightmare thing,...	449 views Rate it
Pain In Pleasure — Elizabeth Barrett Browning	A THOUGHT ay like a flower upon mine heart, And drew around it other thoughts like bees For multitude and thirst of sweetnesses; Whereat rejoicing, I...	449 views Rate it
Disabled — Wilfred Owen	He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park Voices of boys...	446 views Rate it
New Love, New Life — Amy Levy	I. She, who so long has lain Stone-stiff with folded wings, Within my heart again The brown bird wakes and...	446 views Rate it
The Man Against the Sky — Edwin Arlington Robinson	Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden hill, Bleak, round, and high, by flame-lit height made...	445 views Rate it
Broken roses. — Jozef Milko	The rose withered the rest are just thorns so mad, so cruel and not a second passes and a person forgets he walks upright and proud he throws coins...	444 views Rate it
Beauty and Beauty — Rupert Brooke	When Beauty and Beauty meet All naked, fair to fair, The earth is crying-sweet, And scattering-bright the air, Eddying, dizzying, closing round, With...	444 views Rate it
His mistress to him at his farewell — Robert Herrick	You may vow I'll not forget To pay the debt Which to thy memory stands as due As faith can seal it you. --Take then tribute of my tears; So long as I have...	443 views Rate it