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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEJECTION Matches Found: 75 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DULL DAY IN SEPTEMBER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A melancholy wind moans all the day Last Line: Calls off his glittering legions from the chase. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection A LONG WHILE AGO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still hangeth down the old accustom'd willow Last Line: A long while ago. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Friendship; Melancholy; Memory; Dejection A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 7, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beeches are vibrant because there is black Last Line: Like lace. Jane with sunspots; with, almost, grace. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Trees; Dejection A WISH - TO THE NEW YEAR, 1705, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Janus! Great leader of the rolling year Last Line: And cease to love in vain, and be a wretch no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Melancholy; New Year; Wishes; Dejection ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe Last Line: A prey to tyrants, murderers of mankind. Subject(s): Idleness; Melancholy; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Dejection AUTUMN SONGS, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jews, my brothers, will they understand me? Last Line: My song, my melancholy song. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Judaism; Dejection AUTUMNAL SONNET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods Last Line: Poor earth, where we were wont to live and grieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Desertion & Nonsupport; Grief; Leaves; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection BALLAD OF THE LADIES OF OLDEN TIMES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me where, in what foreign place / is flora, who wore roman dress Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): History; Melancholy; Historians; Dejection CINQUAINS, by GEORGE NOBBE Poem Text First Line: A mischievous wind / blew a swirl of leaves Last Line: In infinity? Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection COME, MELANCHOLY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come, melancholy, come, delight Last Line: That casts a halo on our birth! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection DEJECTION, by GRACE E. ALBRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is winter in my garden Last Line: Burial. Subject(s): Melancholy; Winter; Dejection DEJECTION, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore tonight so full of care Last Line: Yet are they only not enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Life; Melancholy; Dejection DEJECTION, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bone-idle, I lie listening to the rain Last Line: Who have twice come in from the cold? Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection DEJECTION: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! If the bard was weather-wise, who made Last Line: Thus mayest thou ever, evermore rejoice. Variant Title(s): The New Moon;letter To Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802, Sunday Evening Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Melancholy; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection DREAM OF LIFE'S EARLY DAY, FAREWELL FOR EVER, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright mornings! Of beauty and bloom, that, in boyhood Last Line: Oh! Dream of life's early day, farewell for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection ELEGIAC SONNET: 32. TO MELANCHOLY. WRITTEN ON BANKS OF ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When latest autumn spreads her evening veil Last Line: And soothe the pensive visionary mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Melancholy; Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Dejection EXILE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I have made grief a gorgeous, queenly thing Last Line: Disrobed, bereft, an outcast in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection HOT HILL, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Seeped in a symphony of sound Last Line: Beyond the cedar trees. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection IL PENSEROSO, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hence vain deluding joys Last Line: And I with thee will choose to live. Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Melancholy; Night; Dejection; Bedtime IN AN OLD SOUTHERN GARDEN, by HALLIE HALL Poem Text First Line: In an old southern garden - I found Last Line: Romance -- of the long long ago. . . . Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection IN THE KING'S ENGLISH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Er - dear, and all that sort of rot Last Line: In jolly bliss. Eh, what? Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection LOVE IS A BOG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love is a bog, a deep bog, and a wide bog" Last Line: And dwells in the house of melancholy Subject(s): Love - Nature Of;melancholy; Dejection LOVE'S FOOL TO HIS LADY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's fool am I. To thine imperial court Last Line: Love's fool am I. Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Faithfulness; Constancy; Dejection MARCELIA; A TRAGICOMEDY. SONG, by FRANCES BOOTHBY Poem Text First Line: You powerful gods! If I must be Last Line: Let rage, despair, and death, then end their flame. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light seen suddenly in the storm, snow Last Line: Swirling over everything alive Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sickness of desire, that in dark days Last Line: If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently without my window Last Line: Now, my soul, I sleep. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold starlight, on the barren beach Last Line: Glittering magnificently unperturbed. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA (FOR AN ENGRAVING BY ALBRECHT DURER), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many years I toiled like caliban Last Line: The sun sets, and a bat flies past the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas mid of the moon but the night was dark with rain Last Line: If only he sleep and sleep and have rest for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn shadows tint the waving trees Last Line: To melancholy and the muse resigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning Last Line: A bliss to the eye, and a balm to the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain and wind, the rain and wind, raved endlessly Last Line: Rumors of what had touched my friends, my foes, or me. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY'S DESCRIPTION OF HER DWELLING, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in groves that gilt are with the sun Last Line: Maintain your credit and your dignity. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Houses; Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY; PINDARIC ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What in the name of wonder's this Last Line: And that they have disgrac'd themselves to honour thee. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLYE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! Al vaine delightes Last Line: Dust and immortall youthe. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection NETLEY ABBEY, MIDNIGHT, by WILLIAM S. SOTHEBY Poem Text First Line: Soft on the wave the oars at distance sound Last Line: Shall pour the lenient balm that soothes the soul to peace. Subject(s): Funerals; Melancholy; Night; Burials; Dejection; Bedtime ODE ON MELANCHOLY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, go not to lethe, neither twist Last Line: And be among her cloudy trophies hung. Variant Title(s): On Melancholy Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection ODE TO A SINGING BIRDS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: But why for thee this fond complaint? Last Line: "and oft suppress the rising tear?" Subject(s): Birds; Melancholy; Dejection ODE TO MELANCHOLY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us set our careful breasts Last Line: But has its chord in melancholy. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection PATHETIQUE, by NELSON HANBACK Poem Text First Line: Among this somber tone, bend low in sadness Last Line: To whirl the isles of beauty in music's art. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection PRIMORDIAL SPRINGS, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you sleeping, springtime of the world? Last Line: Springs I have never known. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melancholy; Mourning; Spring; Dejection; Bereavement RAIN IN THE NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain in the night is falling Last Line: The pattering of the rain. Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Dejection RAINY NIGHT, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Black of night; soft-dripping rain Last Line: Alone, in darkness, my heart grieves. Subject(s): Melancholy; Mourning; Rain; Tears; Water; Dejection; Bereavement REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie. Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad one, must you weep alway? Last Line: "pray you, let it be!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SCILLA'S METAMORPHOSIS: MELANCHOLY, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth, late choked with showers Last Line: I sad and pensive wholly. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Melancholy; Dejection SILVER TEARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many tributes life hath brought me Last Line: For my wild heart's suffering. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading ends in melancholy Last Line: Farewell all, if friendship ceases. Subject(s): Books; Disease; Friendship; Melancholy; Reading; Dejection SONNET TO MELANCHOLY, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: When wintry tempests agitate the deep Last Line: Beyond the narrow bounds of space or time! Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS OF MELANCHOLY DREAMS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye airy phantoms, by whose pow'r Last Line: Then let me sink to rest—and never wake again! Subject(s): Dreams; Melancholy; Nightmares; Dejection THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year Last Line: So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Dejection THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.' Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement THE FOUR HUMOURS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wondered if the rumors got to her Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Anger; Melancholy; Cancer (disease); Doctors; Illness; Dejection THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 85. VAIN VIRTUES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the sorriest thing that enters hell? Last Line: The sin still blithe on earth that sent them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Melancholy; Virtue; Dejection THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 86. LOST DAYS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lost days of my life until to-day Last Line: "and thou thyself to all eternity!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Melancholy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dejection THE ICONOCLAST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since my soul grown sick of sordid things Last Line: And all the horrors of a world grown gray. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Passion; Torture; Dejection THE KNIGHT AND THE FRIAR: PART 1, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: In our fifth harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion Last Line: Beats all that I can say upon it. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Love; Melancholy; Dejection THE PASSING OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At pisa, where the cypress-spires alway Last Line: "beyond the flaming rampire of the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Aging; Courage; Death; Melancholy; Pisa, Italy; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Dejection THE PULLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god at first made man Last Line: May toss him to my breast. Variant Title(s): The Gifts Of God;rest Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Melancholy; Redemption; Religion; Human Race; Dejection; Theology THE ROBIN, AN ELEGY, by JOSEPH GILES Poem Text First Line: O come, thou melancholy muse Last Line: "and many a pleasing thought inspire." Subject(s): Melancholy; Robins; Dejection THE SAVAGE OF AVEYRON, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the mazes of a wood Subject(s): Forests; Melancholy; Woods; Dejection THE SPLEEN; A PINDARIC POEM, by ANNE FINCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, spleen, which everything dost ape? Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection THE TRIUMPH OF MELANCHOLY, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, be still! Why throng upon the thought Last Line: For long the night, and distant far his home. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection THE WISH, by JABEZ HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Ye powers who sway the skies above Last Line: A safe retreat from future woe! Subject(s): Melancholy; Wishes; Dejection THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection THEINE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If compelled / to give it up Last Line: Sleepier / than air Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection THEY DO NOT KNOW, by ALBERT MOCKEL Poem Text First Line: Far in the meadow, through the fountainrain Last Line: I had known my own kisses again. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Loneliness TO MELANCHOLY, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of love and sorrow -- hail Last Line: O'er foaming seas and distant sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Melancholy; Solitude; Dejection; Loneliness TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, hither come Last Line: With silent melancholy. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Bible; Melancholy; Memory; Mythology; Rivers; Dejection TO THE SAME LADY UPON MR. BURTON'S MELANCHOLY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If in this glass of humours you do find Last Line: By others' melancholy, not your own. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection TWILIGHT, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Dusk comes creeping from horizon Last Line: Lets the dusk not linger long. Subject(s): Evening; Melancholy; Mourning; Silence; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Dejection; Bereavement; Loneliness WEARINESS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, I am weary of the world Last Line: To place them with my soul beneath your feet. Subject(s): Death; Melancholy; Weariness; Dead, The; Dejection; Fatigue |
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