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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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Allah. (From The German Of Mahlmann) — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Allah gives light in darkness, Allah gives rest in pain, Cheeks that are white with weeping Allah paints red...	442 views Rate it
Aloneliness — Kurt Philip Behm	Aloneliness, thickening fog haze to look out of safe in your bog Aloneliness, creating the space for Laura to fill her words to...	440 views Rate it
Christabel — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	PART...	439 views Rate it
Restless Love — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	THROUGH rain, through snow, Through tempest go! 'Mongst streaming caves, O'er misty waves, On, on! still on! Peace, rest have...	439 views Rate it
Halloween — Robert Burns	Upon that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Colean the...	438 views Rate it
The Gardener XXIV: Do Not Keep to Yourself — Rabindranath Tagore	Do not keep to yourself the secret of your heart, my friend! Say it to me, only to me, in secret. You who smile so gently, softly whisper, my...	438 views Rate it
Experience Too Late — Letitia Elizabeth Landon	It is the past that maketh my despair; The dark, the sad, the irrevocable past. Alas ! why should our lot in life be made, Before we know that life ?...	436 views Rate it
Across The Red Sky — Katherine Mansfield	Across the red sky two birds flying, Flying with drooping wings. Silent and solitary their ominous flight. All day the triumphant sun with yellow banners...	436 views Rate it
Street Cries — Sarojini Naidu	WHEN dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky, Rousing the world to labour's various cry, To tend the flock, to bind the mellowing grain, From ardent...	435 views Rate it
Domestic Peace — Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Tell me, on what holy ground May domestic peace be found? Halcyon daughter of the skies, Far on fearful wing she flies, From the pomp of scepter'd...	435 views Rate it
Fragment: To A Friend Released From Prison — Percy Bysshe Shelley	For me, my friend, if not that tears did tremble In my faint eyes, and that my heart beat fast With feelings which make rapture pain resemble, Yet, from...	435 views Rate it
Xantippe — Amy Levy	(A...	435 views Rate it
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 5. Sometimes I Hold it half a Sin — Alfred Lord Tennyson	I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. ...	435 views Rate it
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture — William Cowper	Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine--thy own sweet smiles I see, ...	434 views Rate it
The Spring Storm — William Carlos Williams	The sky has given over its bitterness. Out of the dark change all day long rain falls and falls as if it would never end. Still the snow keeps its...	432 views Rate it
The Human Abstract — William Blake	Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody Poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as...	432 views Rate it
The Sacrifice — George Herbert	Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To me, who took eyes that I might you find: Was ever...	431 views Rate it
Nature's Questioning — Thomas Hardy	WHEN I look forth at dawning, pool, Field, flock, and lonely tree, All seem to look at me Like chastened children sitting silent in a...	430 views Rate it
Windsor Forest — Alexander Pope	Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats, At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats, Invite my lays. Be present, sylvan maids! Unlock your springs,...	430 views Rate it
Lead, Kindly Light — John Henry Newman	Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home,-- Lead thou me on! Keep thou my feet; I do not...	428 views Rate it
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,...	424 views Rate it
Hiawatha's Childhood — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell Nokomis, Fell the beautiful...	424 views Rate it
Our Native Earth — Anna Akhmatova	We do not carry it in lockets on the breast, And do not cry about it in poems, It does not wake us from the bitter rest, And does not seem to us like Eden...	424 views Rate it
The Russian Bear in Arms With the Ukraine — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Putin and Hitler. Two European warlords. Birds of same feathers. Waging dangerous warfare. One checked, the other unchecked. Hitler and Putin. ...	423 views Rate it
My Friend — Rabindranath Tagore	Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in...	422 views Rate it