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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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My Mother — Ann Taylor	Who sat and watched my infant head When sleeping on my cradle bed, And tears of sweet affection shed? My...	714 views Rate it
The City In The Sea — Edgar Allan Poe	Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the...	713 views Rate it
Dulce et Decorum Est — Wilfred Owen	1 Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, 2 Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, 3 Till on the haunting flares we turned out...	712 views Rate it
Penance For a Mercurial NBA Player — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Made of sterner stuff. Image of athletic skills. Conformed yet to disappointments, He rose to the very top. As a stalwart college freshman. Earning...	709 views Rate it
Come not when I am dead — Alfred Lord Tennyson	Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There...	709 views Rate it
Sleep well... — Nobody Nose	Sleep well pretty Baby I so want to sing to you As I lay you down From my arms Onto your bed I'd never let go of you From my embrace, Love where art thou?...	707 views Rate it
A Winter Night — Sara Teasdale	My window-pane is starred with frost, The world is bitter cold to-night, The moon is cruel, and the wind Is like a two-edged sword to...	706 views Rate it
The Solitary Reaper — William Wordsworth	Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts...	705 views Rate it
On Pain — Kahlil Gibran	And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as...	705 views Rate it
The Adversary’s Metaphysical String — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Puppets on a string, in the Adversary’s realm, we are made robots. Given minds and thoughts to construct a universe. alien to us. Heed this...	699 views Rate it
Carry On — Robert William Service	It's easy to fight when everything's right, And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in...	695 views Rate it
Broken Love — William Blake	MY Spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way; My Emanation far within Weeps incessantly for my sin. ‘A fathomless and...	689 views Rate it
The Brewing Of Soma — John Greenleaf Whittier	The fagots blazed, the caldron's smoke Up through the green wood curled; 'Bring honey from the hollow oak, Bring milky sap,' the brewers spoke, In the...	686 views Rate it
"My favourite incomplete wish" — DEVANSH MAHAJAN	"FAVORITE INCOMPLETE WISH" After all this time, I wonder, where I was wrong? And sometimes I punch myself, For taking so...	684 views Rate it
The Chimney Sweeper: A Little Black Thing Among The Snow — William Blake	A little black thing among the snow, Crying 'weep! 'weep!' in notes of woe! 'Where are thy father and mother? say?' 'They are both gone up to the church...	680 views Rate it
The Things that Cause a Quiet Life — Henry Howard	My friend, the things that do attain The happy life be these, I find: The riches left, not got with pain, The fruitful ground; the quiet...	676 views Rate it
Night and Day — Robert Louis Stevenson	When the golden day is done, Through the closing portal, Child and garden, Flower and sun, Vanish all things...	672 views Rate it
You love me—you are sure — Emily Dickinson	You love me—you are sure— I shall not fear mistake— I shall not cheated wake— Some grinning morn— To find the Sunrise left— And Orchards—unbereft— And...	671 views Rate it
The Arab's Farewell To His Horse — Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	MY beautiful! my beautiful! that standest meekly by With thy proudly arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye; Fret not to roam the desert now,...	667 views Rate it
How to Die — Siegfried Sassoon	Dark clouds are smouldering into red While down the craters morning burns. The dying soldier shifts his head To watch the glory that returns; He lifts...	664 views Rate it
The Sandpiper — Celia Thaxter	Across the lonely beach we flit, One little sandpiper and I, And fast I gather, but by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry. The wild waves...	660 views Rate it
Aubade — Philip Larkin	I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I...	659 views Rate it
Deep Sea Cables — Rudyard Kipling	The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar - Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are. There is no...	654 views Rate it
The Fairies — William Allingham	Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green...	647 views Rate it
Friend — Rabindranath Tagore	Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in...	645 views Rate it