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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 Wilton rose. — A J C	The Wilted rose. A dream is a magical thing. A secret place where no one can go. A path to make a new start it lures you on it never stops it always...	423 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
An Anatomy Of The World... — John Donne	When that rich soul which to her heaven is gone, Whom all do celebrate, who know they have one (For who is sure he hath a soul, unless It...	422 views Rate it
Ulster — Rudyard Kipling	("Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of inquity and the act of violence is...	421 views Rate it
One Tear — Robert Fuller Murray	Last night, when at parting Awhile we did stand, Suddenly starting, There fell on my...	421 views Rate it
To Newcastle — Dorothy Parker	I met a man the other day- A kindly man, and serious- Who viewed me in a thoughtful way, And spoke me so, and spoke me...	421 views Rate it
The Law Of The Yukon — Robert William Service	This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane -- Strong for the red rage...	419 views Rate it
The Gardener LVII: I Plucked Your Flower — Rabindranath Tagore	I plucked your flower, O world! I pressed it to my heart and the thorn pricked. When the day waned and it darkened, I found that the flower had faded, but...	419 views Rate it
Wanderer's Night Songs. (From Goethe) — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	I. Thou that from the heavens art, Every pain and sorrow stillest, And the doubly wretched heart Doubly with refreshment fillest, I am weary with...	419 views Rate it
I Loved You — Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	I loved you, and I probably still do, And for a while the feeling may remain... But let my love no longer trouble you, I do not wish to cause you any...	418 views Rate it
The Haunted House — Thomas Hood	Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe, Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, With all the dark solemnities that show That Death is...	417 views Rate it
Song From Heine — Thomas Hardy	I scanned her picture dreaming, Till each dear line and hue Was imaged, to my seeming, As if it lived...	417 views Rate it
How She Went To Ireland — Thomas Hardy	Dora’s gone to Ireland Through the sleet and snow; Promptly she has gone there In a ship, although Why she’s gone to Ireland Dora does not...	417 views Rate it
Embers — Sara Teasdale	I said, "My youth is gone Like a fire beaten out by the rain, That will never sway and sing Or play with the wind...	417 views Rate it
Bond And Free — Robert Frost	Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about-- Wall within wall to shut fear out. But Thought has need of no such things, For...	417 views Rate it
Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window — Carl Sandburg	Into the blue river hills The red sun runners go And the long sand changes And to-day is a goner And to-day is not worth haggling...	417 views Rate it
The Drowned Man — Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin	Children running into izba, Calling father, dripping sweat: "Daddy, daddy! come -- there is a Deadman caught inside our net." "Fancy, fancy...	417 views Rate it
Song. Translated From The Italian — Percy Bysshe Shelley	Oh! what is the gain of restless care, And what is ambitious treasure? And what are the joys that the modish share, In their sickly haunts of...	415 views Rate it
O, In A World Of Men And Women — Isaac Rosenberg	0, in a world of men and women, Where all things seemed so strange to me, And speech the common world called human For me was a vain...	415 views Rate it
Morning Twilight — Charles Baudelaire	Reveille was sounding on barrack-squares, and the wind of dawn blew on lighted stairs. It was the hour when a swarm of evil visions torments swarthy...	415 views Rate it
Dreams in the Dusk — Carl Sandburg	Dreams in the dusk, Only dreams closing the day And with the day’s close going back To the gray things, the dark things, The far, deep things of...	415 views Rate it
The skipper and the sea. — A J C	The skipper and the lighthouse. The last night, the moon had a golden ring. The skipper with his weather beaten face blew smoke rings from his pipe....	414 views Rate it
Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be — Vachel Lindsay	(What Grandpa told the...	414 views Rate it
Ode to the West Wind — Percy Bysshe Shelley	I O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter...	414 views Rate it