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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FORTY YEARS AGO [OR, TWENTY YEARS AGO]", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I've wandered to the village, tom, I've sat beneath the tree"
Last Line: "I hope they'll lay us where we play'd, just twenty years ago"
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness


"GO, SONG OF MINE", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dishevelled and in tears, go, song of mine"
Last Line: To seek its maker at the heavenly shrine
Subject(s): Grief;tears; Sorrow;sadness


"WALY, WALY (1)", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o waly, waly, up the bank"
Last Line: "amd I mysel were dead and gane, / and the green grass growing over me"
Subject(s): Disappointment;grief;love; Sorrow;sadness


Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twelve moneths agoe, what rate would I too dear
Last Line: Dispair is better farr, than fruitless hope.
Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whilst I behinde me cast my annual ey
Last Line: Thy graces aid, at least now gin to live.
Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A BALLAD OF AN ARTIST'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet wife, this heavy-hearted age
Last Line: "and in her peace forever dwell."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hunger; Marriage; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A BALLAD OF BURDENS, FR. STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The burden of fair women. Vain delight
Last Line: This is the end of every man's desire.
Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Burden
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Trials; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


A BALLAD OF THE WAILING GHOST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: As I between the dusk and dark
Last Line: "and know her secret grief,"
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness


A BALLAD SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High beyond the granite portal arched across
Last Line: On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea.
Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cypress curtain of the night is spread
Last Line: As this poor one, the worser part of me.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A BRIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O I am weary!' she sighed, as her billowy
Last Line: To kneel in dumb agony down and weep near her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


A CASTLE IN THE AIR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built myself a castle
Last Line: Only -- I looked beyond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Grief; Hope; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A CHILD IS WEEPING, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What can afflict the child thus weeping?
Last Line: A child can weep itself to sleep.
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


A COROT IN NATURE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset sky burns deep and red beyond
Last Line: That such dear pathos maketh almost glad?
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Happiness; Nature; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


A CROWN OF SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sorrow, wet with early tears
Last Line: Upon my brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


A CRY FROM THE CANADIAN HILLS, by LILIAN LEVERIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Laddie, little laddie, come with me over the hills
Last Line: Over the hills of god, laddie, the beautiful hills of home.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A DAUGHTER OF EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fool I was to sleep at noon
Last Line: I sit alone with sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A DEATH OF A FIRST-BORN (JANUARY 14, 1892), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One young life lost, two happy young lives blighted
Last Line: Shall rise up of the just.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A face that should content me wondrous well
Last Line: And knit again the knot that should not slide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Epigram;epigram: 29
Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Language; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary


A DIRGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rough wind, that moanest loud
Last Line: Wail, for the world's wrong.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A DIRGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A bell tolls on in my heart
Last Line: Death gives thee at last good day.
Subject(s): Bells; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


A DOG'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My dog lies dead and buried here
Last Line: That links such lives with my dog's death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


A DREAM OF AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mellow hazes, lowly trailing
Last Line: Down the silence solemnly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Grief; Harvest; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud
Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


A FALSE GENIUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a spirit by thy side
Last Line: He is a demon in disguise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Duplicity; Evil; Genius; God; Grief; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness


A FRENCH SONG IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why thus from the plain does thy shepherdess rove
Last Line: When I leave all the plain, you may guess 'tis for one.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A FUNERAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We carried you one sullen winter day
Last Line: Not lovely, friend of friends, for you were dead.
Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Winter; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


A GIRL'S SONGS: VINTAGE, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heartbreak that is too new
Last Line: Too new to pour is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A HARVEST SONG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the mellow days of autumn
Last Line: And she sings the reaper's song.
Subject(s): Army - United States; Grief; Marching & Marches; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness


A HIDDEN HAND - SOMEWHERE, by ALFRED JENNINGS FUNNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is somewhere a hidden hand
Last Line: Pure being without end.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A LAST COUNSEL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could you not in silence borrow
Last Line: To the mother-bosom creeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Advice; Farewell; Grief; Solitude; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


A LENTEN ONE, by LUBOV STOLITZA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Noon in golden thaw is garbed with glory
Last Line: But our shadowed eyes are our betrayer.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


A LETTER FROM OCTAVIA: TO THE LADY MARGARET, COUNTESS OF CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although the meaner sort, whose thoughts are placed
Last Line: Being secretary now but to the dead.
Subject(s): Cumberland, Margaret Clifford, Countess; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A LETTER TO SARA HUTCHINSON, APRIL 4, 1802 -- SUNDAY EVENING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well! If the bard was weatherwise, who made
Last Line: Thus may'st thou ever, evermore rejoice!
Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness


A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND: USURY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Groaning in conscience, burdened with / my crimes
Last Line: Die, reprobate, and hie thee hence to hell.'
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Repentance; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence


A LOST EDEN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, it was a lonely place
Last Line: Why should I be sad?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A LOST LEADER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My head is wild with weeping for a grief
Last Line: Among men's spirits should be cold and blind.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A LOST LETTER, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just read this letter, old friend of mine
Last Line: "I had lived far better and died in peace!"
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A LYNMOUTH WIDOW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: He was straight and strong, his eyes were blue
Last Line: And the smell of the nets on the churchyard wall!
Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often have I said
Last Line: The christ–soul of the universe to shine.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Meditation; Night; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


A MISUNDERSTANDING (CONNEMARA), by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis my bitter grief,' she said
Last Line: For they ne'er could understand.'
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A MITHER'S CRY (WRITTEN ON A SISTER'S GRAVE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We played together, she and I
Last Line: And her two bairns upon her breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Sisters; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


A NEW BEING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know myself no more, my child
Last Line: And many a weeping head.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Pity; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery
Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth.
Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon has gone to her rest
Last Line: Then shall ye sleep.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness


A PASTORAL OF TASSO, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy golden age
Last Line: Comes once to set, it makes eternal night.
Subject(s): Country Life; Grief; Life; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness


A POEM ENTREATING OF SORROW, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My days' delight, my springtime joys fordone
Last Line: Unto this widow land and people hopeless?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER ON RESIGNATION, FROM JACOB BEHMEN, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear brother in our saviour christ - his grace
Last Line: And christian love here dictates what I say.
Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Sympathy; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy


A PRAYER, by V. H. FRIEDLANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leave not a veil before my eyes
Last Line: A heart to understand.
Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


A PRAYER FOR A VERY NEW ANGEL, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: God, god, be lenient her first night there
Last Line: When she wakes up, do things for her my way!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


A PRAYER IN SORROW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is at thy feet, - my helpless hear!
Last Line: Save me -- o strong to save, as strong to smite!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness


A PRIEST OF HUMANITY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of sorrows bitter-strange is wove his fate
Last Line: More bitter is the grief that eats his heart!
Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


A QUIET WINTER MORNING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here peace and quiet reign in undisturbed dominion
Last Line: And gentle winds of spring and summer.
Subject(s): Grief; Peace; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness


A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day, against the window pane
Last Line: For days clear shining after rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


A RAMAGE FOR AWAKENING SORROW, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grackles stroll about on the black floor of sorrow
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A RETROSPECT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From this fair point of present bliss
Last Line: And so rejoice my life may be all consecrated, dear, to thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A SEAFOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the sea came a chill gray mist
Last Line: As it bows to its gracious king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Fog; Grief; Praise; Soul; Dead, The; Haze; Sorrow; Sadness


A SEASONABLE MORAL, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman sang her ballad to the sky
Last Line: The chance is such as you ought not to take.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gifts & Giving; Good Samaritan; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 13, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was one-and-twenty
Last Line: And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true;
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Variant Title(s): The Cost Of Love
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Innocence; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


A SIMILE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Serenely smiled / the morning mild
Last Line: With sorrows beyond measure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONG (1), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All in an april wood
Last Line: Bides with me yet.
Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONG BEFORE GRIEF, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow, my friend
Last Line: A flaming torch thrown to the golden sea by your pale hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONG FOR TWO VOICES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother, mother, isn't it fun
Last Line: Sin and shame, sin and shame.
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONG FROM SHIRAZ, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The singers of shiraz are feasting afar
Last Line: Thy goblet of love, o mohamed ali!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONG IN SEASON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou whose beauty
Last Line: And its roots bears fruit forever.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Love; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west
Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!)
Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA, by PETRARCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I fill with sighs the air whene'er I stand
Last Line: But of my grief for laura's death can tell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA (2), by PETRARCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh death! How has thy utmost malice sped!
Last Line: As here thy beauty triumph'd over me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A SORROWFUL SIGH OF A PRISONER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, comest thou to me
Last Line: The place to lay thy head!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness


A STANFORD HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against the night, the skies disclose
Last Line: In time's advancing truth!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Stanford University; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


A STORY OF THE SEA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Were you ever told the legend old
Last Line: "is alone the peace he craves."
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sea; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


A SWEET NOSEGAY: IS. W. TO C.B. IN BEWAYLYNGE HER MISHAPPES, by ISABELLA WHITNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If heavie hartes might serve to be a sacrifice for sinne
Last Line: To the conducting of my friende,
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A TALE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He had been touched with grief, and on her cheek
Last Line: Only to think of what had been, and grieve.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A THOUGHT FROM NIETSZCHE, by CHARLES JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have been dealt a cruel blow
Last Line: Me stronger than I was.
Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900); Strength; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness


A TITANIC MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Och! 'tis come again, april, the same fine air
Last Line: Of an april morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): April; Grief; Mothers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


A TRANSCRIPTION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This young man comes from your way, tom
Last Line: "there's nothen now for nobody, only sorrow."
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Grief; Home; Nostalgia; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness


A VALENTINE, by WARREN K. BILLINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life's joys and sorrows rise and ever wane
Last Line: Just that, and nothing more.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Holidays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


A VISION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloomy and black are the cypress-trees
Last Line: The rain, and the rustling cyprus-trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Life; Pain; Vision; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Suffering; Misery


A WEEPING CUPID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, love! I thought you were gay and fair
Last Line: Come, love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness


A WHISPER FROM THE GRAVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My life points with a radiant hand
Last Line: Among the willow trees down there.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


A WINTER REVERIE ON A WESTERN PLAIN, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No hills or mountains grace the vast expanse
Last Line: Of earthly gain, the longest hope of many prayers.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness


A WINTRY WASTE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boughs they blow across the pane
Last Line: That waste is all I see.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


A WOMAN I KNEW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mind me of a woman that I knew
Last Line: "I envy her!"" the pale drab woman said."
Subject(s): Aging; Envy; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


A WOMAN'S LOVE, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sentinel angel sitting high in glory
Last Line: "was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!"
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 11, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild words I write, and lettered in deep pain
Last Line: My tumults and my joys I may proclaim.
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


A YEAR'S CAROLS: NOVEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, soft november, though thy pale
Last Line: How fair thy faint wan face may be.
Subject(s): Grief; November; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness


ABANDONED SELECTIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the crimson breast of the sunset
Last Line: Is watching you break your own!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Nostalgia; Property; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness; Possessions


ABER STATIONS: STATIO SECUNDA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just listen to the blackbird -- what a note
Last Line: I hope he won't go mad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


ABOVE ALL GREAT AND PUBLIC GRIEF, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know how you will turn abruptly from the lilacs and cry?
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ABYSS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief
Last Line: Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
Variant Title(s): "the Terrible Sonnets: 2;""no Worst, There Is More, Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief"";
Subject(s): Death; Despair; Grief; Religion; Social Protest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


ACCURSED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pallid white the moonlight gloweth
Last Line: List to my despairing cry!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness


ACME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, unforgotten sorrow, sleep awhile
Last Line: The toughest oak groans long but rends at length.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost know grief well? Hast known her long?
Last Line: "who walked beside you yesterday?"
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


AD ASTRA: 105, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O breaking hearts! O smiles that fain would hide
Last Line: If that far crown of thorns availeth naught?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Cruelty; Grief; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness


AD ASTRA: 115, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And sorrow serves not only to refine
Last Line: Shows grief to have been god's hallowing means of grace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


AD ASTRA: 14, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: But have we never found her kinship vain
Last Line: And just as lightly will she weep to-morrow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AD ASTRA: 45, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And shall I cry for ever, and in vain?
Last Line: And every gleam augmenteth my despair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


AD FRATREM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot let this perfect morning pass
Last Line: Her garden slopes, and fruitful orchard vales.
Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Nature; Oaths; Sea; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


ADIEU, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu! Adieu! / bright eye of blue
Last Line: To know the future god may give.
Subject(s): Future; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AFTER LONG YEARS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They told me then that time would heal my heart
Last Line: They do not know!
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


AFTER THE BURIAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, faith is a goodly anchor
Last Line: And argues your wisdom down.
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


AFTER THE GUEST; FOR MY BROTHER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The guest departs
Last Line: I pray we'll grow old.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Guests; Marriage; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AFTER THE SYMPHONY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The last finale had crashed
Last Line: Then slow sleep muted all to oblivion.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


AFTER-LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O boon and curse in one - this ceaseless need
Last Line: Born but to bloom a summer time and die.
Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


AFTERWARD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, 'the bitterness of grief is gone'
Last Line: This little pillow -- must I brave them too?
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AGATHA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She wanders in the april woods
Last Line: Envies the dying year.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


AGERATUM, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We two sowed this ageratum
Last Line: You—have gone!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Old Age; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


AIDEEN'S GRAVE, by SAMUEL FERGUSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They heaved the stone; they heap'd the cairn
Last Line: Ben edar to the dead.
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


ALEXANDER J. FRASER, ESQ., by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, sad was the lot of the child we loved dearly
Last Line: The morrow that springs from the sleep of the tomb.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


ALEXANDRINE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the morning of palm sunday, in village adair
Last Line: Alexandrine!
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Palm Sunday; Sorrow; Sadness


ALIEN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark glowed the vales of amethyst
Last Line: Rolled on above our tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Light; Sorrow; Sadness


ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Imagine a big room of women doing anything
Subject(s): Women; Mothers; Gays & Lesbians; Children; Grief; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


ALLEN BROOKE, OF WINDERMERE, by AMELIA OPIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, have you in the valley seen
Last Line: My allen brooke, of windermere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Matthew met richard, when or where
Last Line: Not to be thought expert in both.
Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Grief; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness


ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Richard, who now was half asleep
Last Line: Here! Jonathan, your master's bottle.
Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Sleep; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


ALONE (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The abode of the nightingale is bare
Last Line: It is winter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


AN ADIEU, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Last Line: I shall not forget thee!
Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness


AN APOSTOLIC MAN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O brothers, is the moment past?
Last Line: "love one another, and farewell."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


AN ELEGY OCCASIONED BY SICKNESS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well did the prophet ask, lord, what is man?
Last Line: Shall death's black night to endless lustre turn.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets
Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


AN IZBA SONG, by NIKOLAY KLUYEV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stove is orphaned now; the old housewife has died
Last Line: The lonely window stares out at the thaw and darkness.
Variant Title(s): A Cottage Song
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness


AN OCTOBER AFTERNOON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never again / the world all gold
Last Line: Never again!
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


AN ODE OF BATTLES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ages past / the slow ice sledges bore
Last Line: Throbbed with freedom's answered prayer.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Grief; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Sorrow; Sadness


AN ORDER FOR A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me a song of all good
Last Line: And heaven lean to hear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


ANAESTHETICS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamt I saw a healer stand
Last Line: "upsteals the saintly moon!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Soul; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


AND DOST THOU ASK THE REASON OF MY SADNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Sorrow


AND THEY ARE DUMB, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been across the bridges of the years wet with tears
Last Line: And they are dumb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Tears; Truth; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


ANDREE REXROTH: KING RIVER CANYON, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sorrow is so wide
Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


ANNABEL LEE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was many and many a year ago, / in the kingdom of the sea
Last Line: In her tomb by the side of the sea.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ANNIE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Annie is fairer than her kith
Last Line: For many a weary day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Hearts; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth
Last Line: No place to go.
Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism


ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head
Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


ANTHONY O DALY, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since your limbs were laid out
Last Line: There is nothing but grief!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ANY WIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nobody knows but you and I, my dear
Last Line: Love by its pangs, love that endures for love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; God; Grief; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


APPLES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before she went from grieving
Last Line: Of the apples dropping down.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ARABIAN NIGHTS: TUMADIR AL-KHANSA FOR HER BROTHER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weep! Weep! Weep! / these tears are for my brother
Last Line: "while you have tears, o daughters of the solomides, / weep! Weep! Weep!"
Subject(s): "brothers;death;grief;legends, Arabic;" "half-brothers;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling
Last Line: In every language and opened its doors.
Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


ARBASTO: SONG, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whereat erewhile I wept, I laugh
Last Line: Through her I weep, at her I smile.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ARCHITECTURE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone - gone the spires, and pinnacles, and fanes
Last Line: And all my necromancy is a tomb—my heart.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness


ARIADNE WATCHING THE SAE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THESEUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely - lonely on the shore
Last Line: Loving, but beloved no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Ariadne; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness


ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morning, fraulein
Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs


ARROW BREAKNG APART, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While lovers sleep, I dig my nails into the earth
Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


AS I WALKED FORTH, by ROBERT JOHNSON (1555-1626)    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I walked forth one summer's day
Last Line: Alas, alas! With love her heart did break.
Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


AS REAL AS LIFE, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say to the mild melancholy of regret
Subject(s): Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of an ungrounded grief
Last Line: The great, grass-skinned ground, will say
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ASHES OF ROSES, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft on the sunset sky
Last Line: Ashes of roses.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


ASHES TO ASHES, by HARRIET WINTON DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ashes to ashes, and one by one
Last Line: We search for it long, with tears?
Subject(s): Grief; Worry; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 1, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw thee in the streets, so wan and pale
Last Line: For, through the racking fire, she winged her upward flight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like jove's great eagle, who on giant wings
Last Line: Swallowed and lost my life in vast whirlpools of light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 11, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossoms rain upon the lea
Last Line: And thou standest in thy height.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 12, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Creature of moods and changes manifold
Last Line: Soul, like a star, wilt thou pursue thy way?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each word that falleth from thy lips
Last Line: And buds and blossoms forth in song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 3, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weeping, weary, did I wander
Last Line: See the vaulting skies appear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I, indeed, th' aeolian harp
Last Line: And flaming grandly on and on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Harps; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


ASPIRATIONS: 5, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I move amid a golden cloud
Last Line: In hushed and reverential prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul is like a fragile flower
Last Line: And overbrims in tears of joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


ASPIRATIONS: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like to the echoes, clear and light
Last Line: To steep their being in the infinite skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 8, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is hushed and holy
Last Line: That twilight soul of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ASPIRATIONS: 9, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, in the summer night
Last Line: O'er me dazzling doth it roll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


AT A FUNERAL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved her too, this woman who is dead
Last Line: Who do not weep.
Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


AT A TOMB, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep-ah, ah, who dares to waken me
Last Line: In the grey twilight falling.
Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Graves; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


AT DAWN, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children, my children, the daylight is breaking
Last Line: Anoint with your love or arraign with your pardon?
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Yon is the train I used to take
Last Line: But I go home no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains


AT PARTYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night is silent, love, and here beside thee
Last Line: Ah, holy, holy moment of farewell!
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love; Silence; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


AT POOL POINT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pool point is where the cumberland
Last Line: "forgive, forgive thy child."
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Grief; Rivers; Clemency; Sorrow; Sadness


AT SUNSET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The robin warbles in the dusk
Last Line: And know the glories of thy will.
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature; Robins; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


AT SUNSET, by JASON SHINDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your death must be loved this much.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


AT THE LUXEMBOURG, by GUY-CHARLES CROS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I remember a maiden
Last Line: And is the author of a baker's dozen volumes of light or delicate verse.
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Household Employees; Luxembourg; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


AT THE STEVENSON FOUNTAIN (PORTSMOUTH SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO), by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps from out the thousands passing by
Last Line: And draw contentment from a cup of tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Fountains; Grief; San Francisco; Sorrow; Sadness


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a very virtuous burgher
Last Line: "dance before the master's throne?"
Subject(s): Creation; Grief; Religion; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A book I was reading this morning
Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives.
Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness


AULD ROBIN GRAY, by ANNE LINDSAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sheep are in the fauld, when the kye [or, cows] at hame
Last Line: For auld robin gray, he is kind unto me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


AULD SCOTLAND AT THE ABBEY CRAIG IN NOVEMBER, 1864, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As white as a ghaist, wi' a tear in her e'e
Last Line: "wi' the will there's a way, wi' the means there's a power."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grief; Scotland; Sorrow; Sadness


AURORA, OR THE MAD TALE MADLY TOLD, by ELIZABETH TREFUSIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis night. And this the fearful hour
Last Line: This maniac had been dead a year, a month, and day!
Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


AUTUMN, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is sad and still. A bright transparency!
Last Line: Down to the wintry regions soon to darkness fated.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


AUTUMN, by ALBERT SAMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly we go with the old dog close behind us
Last Line: Of dead illusions as of children that have died.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


AUTUMN ON THE PRAIRIE, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a hush upon the prairie
Last Line: I am home this year.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Homecoming; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


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


AWAKENING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lights shone down the street
Last Line: He had won for himself that day.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Day; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


AWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot say, and I will not say
Last Line: He is not dead -- he is just away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): He Is Not Dead
Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


AWAY! (1), by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day's enamour'd of the night
Last Line: Away from me and sorrow!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


BABYLONIAN SORROWS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm summon'd by death. I'd fain, my love
Last Line: Ere I myself from this earth can pass.
Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Grief; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


BACHELOR HALL, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems like a dream - that sweet wooing
Last Line: To the dead and the dying of bachelor hall.
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Single People; Sorrow; Sadness; Bachelors; Unmarried People


BALLAD, by MARGARET GROSVENOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love met sorrow on the road
Last Line: Love had grown a man.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


BALLADE: 17, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The joy so short, alas, the pain so near
Last Line: That undeserved, causeless to remain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Happiness; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


BALLADE: 19, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And if an eye may save or slay
Last Line: Then fear not the eye to show the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Betrayal; Eyes; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness


BALLADE: 23, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, how I seek and sue to have
Last Line: In joy or pain for to endure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


BALLADE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart
Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Suffering; Misery


BALLADE: 35, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Horrible of hue, hideous to behold
Last Line: My heart for sorrow yet feel I quake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


BALLADE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lover: it burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire
Last Line: Thus hearts be won by love, request, and moan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Grief; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


BANISH SORROW, by GEORGE OGLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Banish sorrow, grief's a folly
Last Line: There's no drinking in the grave.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness


BARTLEBY AT THE WALL, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wall/is the side of the building
Subject(s): Walls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


BBC, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here is the news, and someone is reading it
Last Line: Here is grump's grievance, and grump himself growling it.
Subject(s): British Broadcasting Company; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; B.b.c.; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


BEAUTIFUL RAIN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rain, rain, beautiful rain
Last Line: Weep for the orphan girl, beautiful rain.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mothers; Rain; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow!
Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, by MURRAY L. MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is because I love you I am sad
Last Line: And I be poor -- were you not cause for living.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness


BEETHOVEN, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That midnight pause, when the deep forest / hushes
Last Line: Shakes the wet boughs of the dark—again—again.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nature; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight
Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


BENEDICTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing
Last Line: Blest.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


BENEFACTION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou the lives of men wouldst bless
Last Line: For him who treads it after thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness


BEREFT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when her calf is taken, far and near
Last Line: Bring them to birth again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


BEYOND, by ALLAN MUNIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the prison cell
Last Line: In peace without you?
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hunger; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


BEYOND RECALL, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a time when death and I
Last Line: As life -- and you -- have proved to me!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


BLACK APRIL, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could god have meant the spring to hurt us so
Last Line: Just one black night of agony?
Subject(s): April; Depression, Mental; Grief; Spring; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness


BLACK SWANS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I lie at rest on a patch of clover
Last Line: By a mighty power with a purpose dread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


BLIGHTED LOVE, by LUIS DE CAMOENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flowers are fresh, and bushes green
Last Line: Blighted love shall never blow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


BLUE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standin' at de winder
Last Line: Chile, I's sholy blue.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


BLUE RIDGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks
Subject(s): Fireworks; Man-woman Relationships; Middle Age; Grief; Male-female Relations; Sorrow; Sadness


BOOK OF VISIONS: THE SADNESS OF PAN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rapturous lark has thrown to calm, unechoing skies, his trill's
Last Line: And suddenly pan hurled to that still sphere above the final cry of love!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


BRAVE BEN HALL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all australian sons with me
Last Line: "the widow's friend in poverty - / bold ben hall, good-bye"
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hero-worship;heroism;murder; Sorrow;sadness;heroes;heroines


BREAK, BREAK, BREAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Break, break, break, / on thy cold gray stones, o sea!
Last Line: Will never come back to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nostalgia; Sea; Transience; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean; Impermanence


BRIDGE OF SORROW, by MARY LOUISE MORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a bridge of sorrow
Last Line: That maybe love can heal.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


BROODING GRIEF, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A yellow leaf from the darkness
Last Line: Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have to go back into the forge room
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


BURNING THE DOLLS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That last night, unable to sleep
Last Line: I burned and burned and burned.
Subject(s): Dolls; Fire; Grief; Loss; Toys; Sorrow; Sadness


BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By celia's arbour all the night
Last Line: But tears of sorrow shed by me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow
Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile.
Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


BY THE ENTRANCE TO CORDOVA HALL, I SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside my overheated car, where no one
Subject(s): Songs; Memory; Grief; Driving; Sorrow; Sadness


BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sat down and wept by the waters
Last Line: With the voice of the spoiler by me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Psalm 137
Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


CALUMNY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A whisper woke the air
Last Line: And that -- it broke!
Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet
Variant Title(s): Slander
Subject(s): Defamation; Grief; Slander; Libel; Sorrow; Sadness


CANZONE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since love will needs that I shall love
Last Line: To serve and suffer patiently.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


CARE NOT FOR KEYS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Care not for keys: no stranger can intrude
Last Line: But never tongue of man to mortal ear.
Subject(s): Grief; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness


CASA WAPPY; THE CHILD'S PET-NAME, CHOSEN BY HIMSELF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And hast thou sought thy heavenly home
Last Line: Casa wappy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Colin, worshipping some frail
Last Line: Quite implicitly believes him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Grief; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness


CECILY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She had a laugh
Last Line: Vile -- they're vile!'
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Laughter; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre
Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care.
Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness


CHAMBER MUSIC: 19, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be not sad because all men
Last Line: As they deny, deny.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


CHANGES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourn, o rejoicing heart!
Last Line: The hours fly fast!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Change; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness


CHARLES H. PHILIPS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O friend! There is no way
Last Line: Thy high reward in heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


CHRISTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most quaintly touching, in her
Last Line: "than yet I am to you. So ist good night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness


CHRISTMAS AFTER WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall misery make mirth
Last Line: Their bethlehem.
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; War; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness


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


CITY BLOOD AND COUNTRY JAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clarence percy smith de vere / was a youth of high degree
Last Line: Pays to learn his name is mud
Subject(s): Country Life;grief;pity;sports; Sorrow;sadness


CLEANSING FIRES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Let thy gold be cast in the furnace
Last Line: And the furnace of living pain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fire; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


CLEVEDON VERSES: 4. CUI BONO?, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What comes
Last Line: Who cuts it cuts but rock, or digs the sapless sand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


CLOWN AND KING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hoop-la, hey! Cried the clown in the ring
Last Line: Life's woven good-and-ill.
Subject(s): Clowns; Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat
Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


COMBINATIONS, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heartache and a crimson rose
Last Line: But sorrow twists the mouth.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Wind; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


COMFORT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark head by the fireside brooding
Last Line: Waits the throne for you.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


COMFORT IN TEARS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why art thou sad, when all around
Last Line: "while I have heart to weep."
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


COMFORT IN TEARS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How is it that thou art so sad
Last Line: "the while it is away."
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


COMPENSATION, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When once, in 'merrie england'
Last Line: Cruel ones are brief.
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


COMPLAINT, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not that grief will sear with so much pain
Last Line: He makes complaint . . . . But that it leaves a callus.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


CONSOLATIN TO M. DU PERIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And must thy grief, du perier, knowe no end?
Last Line: Can lead us unto peace.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


CONSOLING BILLY, by EVA STEEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There now, billy, stop your crying
Last Line: You'll forget him after a while.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Consolation; Grief; Pain; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


CORTEGE, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the sea could dream, and if the sea
Subject(s): Life; Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness


CORYDON'S LAMENT AND RESOLUTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wept and I have sighed
Last Line: Nor one tear for chloe shed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Love; Marriage; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs
Last Line: But never refute its innocence.
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean


CRAZY MENU, by TESS GALLAGHER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last of his toothpaste, last of his wheat chex, last
Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Food & Eating; Grief; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


CUMNOR HALL, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dews of summer night did fall
Last Line: The haunted towers of cumnor hall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William
Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness


CUPID IN AMBUSH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I went down the autumn lane
Last Line: I knew I should not laugh again.
Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Love; Love - Complaints; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness


CURTAINS, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Putting up new curtains,
Subject(s): Landlord & Tenants; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DAVID'S GRIEF FOR HIS CHILD, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas daybreak, and the fingers of the dawn
Last Line: "but he will not return to me."
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DAY OF GRIEF, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was forcing a wasp to the top of a window
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DE PROFUNDIS; DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY STRUDWICK NICOLSON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunshine faded from the room
Last Line: To greet that resurrection morn!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


DEAD GALLOP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like ashes, like seas breeding into themselves
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


DEAD ORCHARD, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like seven birds sleeping on the plateau
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DEATH, by DOROTHY DREISBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Death took the orange out of the sunshine
Last Line: The scar of the wound will always be there.
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grave-worm revels now
Last Line: It is the second birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Grief; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DEATH IS A DOOR, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death is only an old door
Last Line: In an old wall.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DECEMBER, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a drear-nighted december
Last Line: Was never said in rhyme.
Variant Title(s): Happy Insensibility;stanzas
Subject(s): December; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DECEMBER. 1919, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I heard your voice, mother
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness


DEEPER THAN DROUGHT, by MARION LOUISE BLISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now a long crowd of darknesses
Subject(s): Drought; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DEFERRED, by JAMES BINNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The knights of old are long since dead
Last Line: To drink the tears of man.
Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


DEFERRED, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not grieve for you while autumn lingers
Last Line: But, oh, the time comes ... When I must!
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


DEIRDRE IS DEAD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps
Last Line: Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Death; Deirdre; Drowning; Grief; Wind; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DEJECTION, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sickness clouds the languid eye
Last Line: With anguish more severe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


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


DELICE, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It stands out like a flower of pale gold
Last Line: There's one flower of pale gold ....
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DENIAL, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: High heaven denies me to myself. No blame
Last Line: That made them me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Shame; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


DEPARTURE, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now let me sleep, and that which sleeps in me awake
Last Line: That teach despair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DEPARTURE, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The figs on the fig tree in the yard are green;
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings
Last Line: Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of
Variant Title(s): "description Of Spring, Wherein Each Thing Renews Save Only The Lover;spring;summer;summer Is Come;sonnet;summer Is Gone;morte 42: Sonetto (imitated From Petrarch);spring, But;""the Soote Season, That Bud And Blome Furth Bringes"";
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness


DESCRIPTIONS, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The clouds pregnant with rain
Last Line: At the slightest wind of annoyance.
Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Rain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


DESDEMONA, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So the slim moon, a young girl, shines upon
Last Line: And all that stays is grief for all that's gone.
Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


DESERT WIFE, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have shed cold tears so sterile they were saltless
Last Line: How can such fruitless years in any manner magnify my god?
Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DESERTED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold! So cold! And the night looks down
Last Line: And the spotless robe is the wing of death
Subject(s): Cold;grief; Sorrow;sadness


DESIDERIUM: IN MEMORIAM, S.F.A., by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The call of homing rooks, the shrill
Last Line: Hadst pleasure still, I might not grieve.
Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


DESPONDENCY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What hast thou done that makes thee despondent?
Last Line: That it never will shine again.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DESTRUCTION, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness


DIALOGUE ON PADERBORN HEATH, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear'st thou not far music ringing
Last Line: What my bosom holds within it?
Subject(s): Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness


DINNER OF HERBS, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dined at a strange old inn with sorrow
Subject(s): Grief; Pleasure; Food & Eating; Sorrow; Sadness


DIRE: 7. CELENO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head
Last Line: That triple-headed hound of hell their god.
Subject(s): Blindness; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Hell; Nations; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness


DIRGE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If there be any grief
Last Line: Lie here, till morning come.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS, by LEONIE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold shed upon suckling gold
Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Landscape; Sorrow; Sadness


DIRGE FOR A YOUNG MAIDEN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hushed be sighing, near the string
Last Line: The maiden's dying!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DIRGE OF THE MOOLA OF KOTAL, by GEORGE THOMAS LANIGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, unhappy land' ill-fated spot
Last Line: Let him disclose it!
Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DISAPPOINTMENT, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, how can I live in a torture so wild?
Last Line: And drink deep of god's pardoning love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DISQUIET, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Foolish troubled heart
Last Line: What aileth thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DISTRACTION, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O knit me, that am crumbled dust! The heap
Last Line: Striving to save the whole, by parcells dye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DIVIDED, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An empty sky, a world of heather
Last Line: "are bridged by his thoughts that cross to me."
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


DIVINE PORTRAITURE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: An artist painted a fair scene
Last Line: Till beauty overpowers each taint.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Grief; Love; Soul; World; Sorrow; Sadness


DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beloved, there is a sorrow in the world
Last Line: Which beauty cannot lift from tired men.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sorrowful, who have loved, I pity not
Last Line: From earth made ready for eternity.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DO NOT BELIEVE, by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lady, they will tell you, 'you are foolish to believe him!
Last Line: But weep above my idle lute and loosen all the strings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Emile
Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


DO NOT GRIEVE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not have you mourn too much
Last Line: The old, sweet pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils
Variant Title(s): Dolour
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness; Clerks


DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rev. Percy ferguson, patrician / vicar of christ, companion of the strong
Last Line: The coroner and jury sat and heard: --
Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Grief; Life; Love; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DOMESDAY BOOK: THE MAJOR AND ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Elenor murray and petain, the major
Last Line: "I have a sorrow, too, as deep as yours."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your wife left before you woke
Last Line: Burns less brightly.
Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DON'T, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your eyes were made for laughter
Last Line: Sweet phyllis, and love me.
Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


DORA, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A waxing moon that, crescent yet
Last Line: To learn that tears are obsolete.
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Moon; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


DORCAS, by BESSIE CLARK RANDLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little head of curly gold - brown hair
Last Line: When tears are wiped away.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DOROTHY IN THE GARRET, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the low-raftered garret, stooping
Last Line: And lifelong sorrow a breath on the pane.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Spinsters; Sorrow; Sadness; Old Maids


DOST THOU ASK?, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Askest thou why in mine eyes / the tears so thickly spring?
Last Line: But thou -- thou mayest not!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could ye come back to me, douglas, douglas
Last Line: Douglas, douglas, tender and true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Variant Title(s): Too Late
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DOWNCAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These roses are as perfect as of old
Last Line: The very fountain of delight is dry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


DREAM-LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, friend, and I will tell you
Last Line: And, indeed -- I never know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery
Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness


DREARY SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When ragged is the country and tawdry is / the town
Last Line: "but nobody is listening—let's die and disappear."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Queen Anne's Lace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


DRIFTING DOWN, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wild desire throbbed in my breast
Last Line: I wandered in a bitter dream.
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high
Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed.
Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


DRINKING SONG, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to die in the saddle. An enemy of civilization
Last Line: Chest, clouds above, she was in ny forever and I, fishing and drinking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Loss; Singing & Singers; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


DUALITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never pass a human house
Last Line: Awake, as in its sleep?
Subject(s): Death; Duplicity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


DURING THE WAR, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my brother came home from war
Subject(s): War; Grief; Social Commentaries; Sorrow; Sadness


EACH LIFE HAS GRIEF, by MARIETTA ERVEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each life has grief, and yet each life must wear
Last Line: That each with each may find grief less forlorn.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The low sweet melody of ancient song
Last Line: Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief.
Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born
Last Line: Time bowed before eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness


ECHOES OF SPRING: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With thousand gaps the earth is split
Last Line: Will solace ever come to me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness


ECHOES OF SPRING: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, soft sweet air of early spring
Last Line: I'd like to lay me down and die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness


ECSTACY, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could never be properly dead
Last Line: The songs that I sing for the earth.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EDITH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time, that doth take what none would give
Last Line: I shall be satisfied.
Subject(s): Absence; Consolation; Death; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EDUCATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had lived many years when first I met
Last Line: But oh, to feel the youth my age could hold!
Subject(s): Death; Education; Experience; Grief; Knowledge; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EJACULATORY PRAYER, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no grief on earth, however fell
Last Line: Beyond my dreaming!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the dark inheritor of woe
Last Line: Of saints, with fairies in loud antiphon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the dark, the widowed, the disconsolate
Last Line: Melusine's cries against the moaning of the saint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGIAC SONNET: 24. BY THE SAME, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make there my tomb, beneath the lime-tree's shade
Last Line: Where her poor werter -- and his sorrows sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGIAC SONNET: 68. WRITTEN AT EXMOUTH, MIDSUMMER, 1795, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall, dews of heaven, upon my burning breast
Last Line: To hearts o'erwhelm'd with grief, to eyes suffused with tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGIAC SONNET: 84. TO THE MUSE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilt thou forsake me who in life's bright may
Last Line: Where pity and remembrance bend and weep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGY, by FLORENCE HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Never again in your arms shall I lie
Last Line: Bury me deep.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGY, by ANNE (DACRE) HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: In sad and ashy weeds I sigh
Last Line: Do all console my woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Arundell, Duchess Of
Variant Title(s): Elegy On The Death Of Her Husband
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGY FOR HASSAN NASIR; KILLED BY TORTURE IN THE LAHORE FORT, 1959, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today, all at once, when the thread of my vision snapped
Last Line: The cry heard again on the lips of the saqi, when I am gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad
Subject(s): Grief; Lahore, Pakistan; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SMITH: MR. SMITH IS DEAD, by THOMAS CHATTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ascend, my muse, on sorrow's sable plume
Last Line: The blood-stained tomb where smith and comfort lie.
Subject(s): Blood; Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGY ON THE EARL OF ROCHESTER, by ANNE WHARTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deep waters silent roul, so grief like mine
Last Line: For to make him she exhausted all her store.
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Sorrow; Sadness; Rochester, 2nd Earl Of


ELEGY WITH A CHIMNEYSWEEP FALLING INSIDE IT, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboard
Subject(s): Transience; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness


ELEGY WRITTEN AFTER READING THE 'SORROWS OF WERTER', by ROBERT MERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas, poor werter! To himself a prey
Last Line: He lost that charlotte, and he sought for rest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Prejudice; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness; Bias; Intolerance


ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only doesn't the ohio
Last Line: In rags, half in radiance.
Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Grief; Hudson River; Nature; Ohio River; Plane Trees; Rivers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Sycamores


ELEONORA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: How many years have passed away
Last Line: Eleonora.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


ELMS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I tried to distinguish
Subject(s): Elm Trees; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EMERSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall we say? In quietude
Last Line: Our silence, best applause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Grief; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ENCHANTMENT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who made me an immortal in the night!
Last Line: When the mad sun's clear face is dimmed with rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


ENDING ALL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art gone from me, psyche, far away
Last Line: United by our god!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will try to remember. It was light
Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never.
Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists


ENDURANCE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: He bent above: so still her breath
Last Line: To be immortal and alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


EPICEDIUM, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nevermore! Ah, nevermore!
Last Line: Ah, sweet word, never more!
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


EPIGRAM: 42, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O miserable sorrow withouten cure!
Last Line: As was my pleasure when she was present.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy
Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much.
Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son
Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood


EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear
Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


EPITAPH: 10, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My day has dawned and loud within my ears
Last Line: Upon the field in france—jour de ma vie!
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EPITAPH: 15, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad wind shifts and stirs
Last Line: Yet no wind grieves.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EPITHALAMIUM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The marriage bells have rung their peal
Last Line: Here's to—success to her successor!
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Wedding Song; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium


ESPANA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There were tears in andalusia
Last Line: Beware lest worse befall!
Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Death; Funerals; Grief; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


EULOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Better than all the tombstones' glosses sleek
Last Line: Give me warm mention on the lips of men.
Subject(s): Grief; Lips; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


EULOGY, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To allow silence
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EUPHORON, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, fold your arms, beloved friends
Last Line: Till grief shall clasp the hand of joy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


EURYDICE, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it that he sings to thee
Last Line: O poor eurydice, o my beloved one!
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Loss; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness


EUTHANATOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth of our ways and woes
Last Line: Could death's self quench or blind, love's self were dead.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EVA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, I loved him all too well
Last Line: Ye may meet at length in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sin; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


EVEN AS A CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as a child to whom sad
Last Line: Even as a child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Grief; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EVENING, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood
Last Line: Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


EVENING HYMN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows of the evening hours
Last Line: O give us now repose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


EVENING SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in sorrow, they dare not show it
Last Line: They sing now, while sailing along.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness


EVERYTHING THAT I MADE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything that I made I used to bring to you
Last Line: And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


EXAGGERATION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We overstate the ills of life, and take
Last Line: That by the grief of one came all our good.
Subject(s): Grief; Discontent; Sorrow; Sadness; Dissatisfaction


EXTRACTS FROM LUCIENNE: 51, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: From a little violet wine at not too dear a fee, my love, I have de
Last Line: Melancholy.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Love; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness


EXTREMITIES, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday I feared
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


EYES, by ANTONIO GOMEZ RESTREPO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are eyes so full of dreams
Last Line: Stars from a lost paradise.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace.
Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery


FAIR INES, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O saw ye not fair ines?
Last Line: Has broken many more!
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


FAIR JENNY, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the joys I have met in the morning
Last Line: Enjoyment I'll seek in my woe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FAIR ORIANA, by ROBERT JONES (1616-)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair oriana, seeming to wink at folly
Last Line: Long live fair oriana!'
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


FAIR SINKS THE SUMMER EVENING NOW, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


FAITH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the thrush and blackbird sing
Last Line: I must believe, I will believe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Grief; Pain; Spring; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


FALLEN, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I placed the first wild wonder in her eyes
Last Line: Lures the lost angels with his godlike wings.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FALSE LOVE AND TRUE LOGIC, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart will break - I'm sure it will
Last Line: And now he's as he ought to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


FAMILIAR GRIEF, INTIMATE JOY, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When grief has gone a-maying
Last Line: To dumb and earless night.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er mountain and valley
Last Line: By healing its sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Passion; Sorrow; Sadness


FAR AWAY, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is weeping as is customary and good
Last Line: Lover no children no poetry
Subject(s): Cities; Grief; New York City; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever
Last Line: More than this I scarce can die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


FAREWELL TO THE COURT, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired
Last Line: To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sorrow Stays
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near
Last Line: To give new year good morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America


FASTASIA, by ROMA COOLIDGE MULVIHILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today / I have watched myriad blackbirds
Last Line: Tears at my heart-strings!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The father: 'now it is over.'
Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE, SELECTION, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tears in my heart that weeps
Last Line: Why thou hast all this woe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FIRST OR LAST (SONG), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If grief come early
Last Line: Aye, my dear and tender!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FLOW ON, THOU SHINING RIVER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Like those sweet flowers on thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


FOLDED POWER, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow can wait
Last Line: To a clearer light.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR A PICTURE WHERE A QUEEN LAMENTS OVER THE TOMB OF A SLAIN KNIGHT, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brave youth, to whom fate in one hour
Last Line: I'll die thy valour's sacrifice.
Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet sweet sound of distant waters
Last Line: Rise at the last trumpet call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Earth; Grief; Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR I AM SAD, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No usual words can bear the woe I feel
Last Line: And find within this sadness something sweet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR LITTLE CHO SAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow on the bamboo, sigh and fall
Last Line: Bare are the branches, all around!)
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Snow; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR REX BRASHER, PAINTER OF BIRDS, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This shortened day of wind-flickered yellow-oranges and golds
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR SAPPHO / AFTER SAPPHO, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And you sang eloquently
Last Line: For this moment only
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Feminism


FOR THE SAKE OF STRANGERS, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter what the grief, its weight
Last Line: And fall weightless, away from the world.
Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR THOSE GROWING OLD, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: O you who through inexorable years
Last Line: That when the body dies, is beauty born!
Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Bodies; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


FORWARD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreamer, waiting for darkness with sorrowful, drooping eyes
Last Line: The joy of the boundless future — nay, god himself — is thine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): God; Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness


FRA ANGELICO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was this beata's grief in thought of christ upon the cross
Last Line: That brought his body up to where -- it had to turn its head?
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Jesus Christ; Soul; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness


FRAGMENT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pilgrim weary, toil-subdued
Last Line: Appear'd to feel alarm, and fled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs


FRAGMENTS (5), by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy is fleet
Last Line: Sorrow, be mine!
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow, lie still and wear
Last Line: As the great earth and swelling sea—
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SORROW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow! Hast thou seen sorrow asleep
Last Line: Off her warm neck.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY, COLLECTED IN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by JAMES MACPHERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sit by the mossy fountain; on top of the hill of winds
Last Line: Passest, when mid-day is silent around.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


FRANCES, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She will not sleep, for fear of dreams
Last Line: I'll leave behind, full many a mile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FRATERNITY, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask not how thy suffering came
Last Line: "the solemn ""yea, I understand!"
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fain would I weep, but, ah, I cannot weep
Last Line: Their gentle loving arms around me throw.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FRIEND SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not cheat thy heart, and tell her
Last Line: Sorrow always brings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FRIENDSHIP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, wail of grief can equal answer win
Last Line: And friendship mourns her still imperfect art.
Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FROM A CAR-WINDOW, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pines, and a blur of lithe young grasses
Last Line: And thoughts of you thro' a mist of tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FROM THE HEADBOARD OF A GRAVE IN PARAGUAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A troth, and a grief, and a blessing
Last Line: And the rainy-day -- she died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


FROM VIOLENCE TO PEACE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twenty-eight shotgun pellets
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Death; Chicanos; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The; Mexican Americans


FULFILLMENT, by JAMES LARKIN PEARSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sought the doubtful comfort of my grief
Last Line: The green creeps back along the wintered hedges.
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In its summer pride arrayed
Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse.
Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen


FUTILITY, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I have tried to laugh the pain away
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Love; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GABRIELLE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A griffin crouches on an oriel plinth
Last Line: The lady couch'd thereby.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, no more of grief and dying!
Last Line: We arise to be your masters.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Grief; Human Behavior; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


GENERAL ROBERTS IN AFGHANISTAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1878, and the winter had set in
Last Line: He spread death and desolation all along.
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Great Britain - Norman Conquest; Grief; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


GERALDINE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas night; her comrades gathered all
Last Line: As one who mourns the dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 26, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cheeks of the goddess glow'd all-red
Last Line: "methinks it by far the best place is."
Subject(s): Future; Grief; Hamburg, Germany; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


GETHSEMANE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the garden of sorrow
Last Line: In the hour that sorrow calls!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Gethsemane; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GETTING A WORD IN, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very sad
Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad
Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary


GHAZALS: 15, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did this sheep die? The legs are thin, stomach hugely
Last Line: Metaphor for the generally felt hidden-behind-bushes sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Grief; Sheep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


GHOST SHIP, by MARY KINZIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mother's love - my love for you - hurts at the core
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness


GIFT, by JULIA EKLUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: My grief lies heavily upon my heart
Last Line: Since it was dealt, with eager hands, by you
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness


GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof
Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms!
Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


GLOOMY RAIN, by EMMA BERGSTROM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gloomy rain, I hear you on my window pane
Last Line: There's gladness in my domain.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Pain; Rain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


GOLDEN DAYS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Golden days -- where are they?
Last Line: Golden days?
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


GOOD ADVICE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cease thy blushes and thy sorrow
Last Line: And on earth to peace attain.
Subject(s): Advice; Grief; Marriage; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


GOOD FRYDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: But now ye sceen is chang'd, chang'd is ye day
Last Line: Who turnes ye crosse into so sweet a thing.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Pain; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


GRAVES, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad night wind, sighing o'er sea and strand
Last Line: And lull the long grass over baudelaire.
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Night; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


GREAT GRIEF, GREAT GLORY, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lesse our sorrowes here and suffrings cease
Last Line: The more our crownes of glory there increase.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me
Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


GREEN AWNINGS, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leander walked over with a blanket of peonies
Subject(s): Desire; Indifference; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless
Last Line: If it could weep, it could arise and go.
Variant Title(s): Hopeless Grief
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Exultant whirlwind wrung the branches
Last Line: Inaudibly, remembering.
Subject(s): Grief; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs
Last Line: Alas, my god!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider sorrowes, how they are aright
Last Line: Griefe, if't be great, 'tis short; if long, 'tis light.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In toils and anguish, made betimes
Last Line: And opes sublimer deeps of faith.
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The darkness steals the forms of all the queens
Last Line: Another torn red sunset come to pass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): Firelight And Nightfall
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a hungry longing in the soul,
Last Line: And recks not if she be to live or die.
Subject(s): Grief; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a hungry longing in the soul
Last Line: And recks not if she be to live or die.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow
Last Line: It may smile in his light, but it blooms not again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by MAY WEST OWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas, no home this side eternity
Last Line: O haunting grief! Cruel mystery!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How did your grief
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ancient enemy have I
Last Line: To conquer mine old enemy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Enemies; Grief; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


GRIEF, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother is mad at the sun
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, by CHRISTINE HAMILTON WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A portion of cold grief has ever grown
Last Line: Incessant fire that cannot find relief.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eyes open to a blue telephone
Last Line: And haul us, prey and praying, into dust
Subject(s): Grief; Fathers; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The


GRIEF ENGROSS'D, by THOMAS CAREW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore do thy sad numbers flow
Last Line: Or blow my tears away or speak my death.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF UNIVERSAL, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all
Last Line: The globe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness


GRIEF WAS SENT THEE FOR THY GOOD, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some there are who seem exempted
Last Line: Grief was sent thee for thy good.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF'S ASPECTS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief does not come alike to all, I know
Last Line: At last, I have thee solely for my own.'
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF'S HARMONICS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At evening, when the lank and rigid trees
Last Line: And in new pang old pang's incarnated.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF, OF THE BLOODY HAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In an immense wood in the south of kent
Last Line: And left him there struggling hard to gain his liberty.
Subject(s): Blood; Crime & Criminals; Discontent; Grief; Kidnapping; Dissatisfaction; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF-SONG, by FRANCES BARBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weave me a gorgeous garland
Last Line: Past reach of circumstance!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEF-SONG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New grief, new tears
Last Line: Whence the rain is falling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEFE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrowes divided amongst many, lesse
Last Line: Discruciate a man in deep distresse.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEFES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jove may afford us thousands of reliefs
Last Line: Since man expos'd is to a world of griefs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEFS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I measure every grief I meet / with analytic eyes
Last Line: That some are like my own.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


GRIEVANCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: One time I grieved; I shivered as in fright
Last Line: "not in your wrath, god's noblest blessing spurn."
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Passion; Sorrow; Sadness


GUARDIAN, by PEPITA CROUNSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within this valley of eternal sleep
Last Line: Where spirit enters immortality.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grief; Immortality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


GUERDON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the white cheek of the cherub year I saw a tear
Last Line: My sorrow's guerdon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


HAD YOU WEPT, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Had you wept; had you but neared me with a hazed uncertain ray
Last Line: And hence our deep division, and our dark undying pain.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HARD WORK, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's hard to keep smiling when troubles are
Last Line: Like a smile.
Subject(s): Grief; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Fatigue


HARRIET STREET, by CAROL FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fadedness of stone
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HAVE PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The goblets all are broken
Last Line: Are very near us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Patience; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HE NEVER SMILED AGAIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bark that held a prince went down
Last Line: He never smiled again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Grief; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sorrow; Sadness


HE SAID TURN HERE, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And then tony showed us the lake
Subject(s): Lakes; Summer; Grief; Pools; Ponds; Sorrow; Sadness


HEART, SAD HEART: A RONDEL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart, sad heart, for what are you pleading?
Last Line: Heart, sad heart, for what are you pleading?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HEART-DEATHS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hearts oft die bitter deaths before
Last Line: And eyes must watch and weep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath
Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains!
Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


HEIMWEH, by R. G. RUSTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just look,' said she, 'how blue the sky'
Last Line: The other wept for paha sapa)
Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


HENRY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In canossa's castle courtyard
Last Line: "of my sorrows with his war-axe."
Subject(s): Castles; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


HENRY W. GRADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: True-hearted friend of all
Last Line: With the white splendor of thy prophecies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HER EYES TWIN POOLS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light
Last Line: A man might plunge, and lose his soul.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


HERBERT WHITE, by FRANK BIDART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I hit her on the head, it was good
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Divorce; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


HERE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's green, here's the tree
Last Line: What we are.
Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness


HERE IS MUSIC: 14. RONDEAU, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Were you but here, this wan, unhappy west
Last Line: Were you but here.
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Lament; Memory; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


HERODIADE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Should I grieve with much grieving
Last Line: Need of you -- you!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HIDDEN SORROW, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has gone at last; yet I could not see
Last Line: Keeps sobbing on in its sleep.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame
Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


HIS GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my words / I'll make rocks
Last Line: To make them sing.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


HIS RETIREMENT, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A purling brook glides by this place away
Last Line: The waters murmur too in sympathy.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HIS WEAKNESSE IN WOES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot suffer; and in this, my part
Last Line: Of patience wants. Grief breaks the stoutest heart.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HOLY INNOCENTS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Us herod slew, / willing to slay the infant christ, our lord
Last Line: As babies trembling in the tears of her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Sorrow; Sadness


HOME-SICKNESS, by JUSTINUS KERNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There calleth me ever a marvelous horn
Last Line: I go to my rest!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HOPE FOR THE SORROWING, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye holy ministers of love
Last Line: To nobler toils pass on! Pass on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HOPE IN GRIEF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me not that death of grief
Last Line: And surely will uprise the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


HOURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the bright stars came out last night
Last Line: And passed into the skies
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Life; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


HOW GREAT MY GRIEF; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How great my grief, my joys how few
Last Line: Since first it was my fate to know thee?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HOW GREY THE WORLD WAS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How grey the world was with its memories
Last Line: The news that you are here, in psalm and shout!
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


HOW LANCELOT CAME TO THE NUNNERY IN SEARCH OF THE QUEEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three days on gawain's tomb sir lancelot wept
Last Line: "and cried, ""alas! Ah, who may trust this world!"
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HOW MY HEART SINKS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How my heart sinks when I behold the sad reflection of my face
Last Line: That I may gather strength to fuse from agony, a smile!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HUM, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The days are beautiful
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HUMAN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weighed down by grief, o'erborne by deep despair
Last Line: Upon the westering sunlight, black as jet.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HUMAN SORROWS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our happy bathers, - pardon my romance!
Last Line: We count from woe to woe, with no glad hearts between!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass
Last Line: Here on my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


I AM NOT SAD!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not sad, though sadness seems
Last Line: The darkness of a nameless tomb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


I GO SINGING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I go singing a song under my breath
Last Line: And this is mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


I SMILE, BUT OH! MY HEART IS BREAKING, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I mingle with the young and gay
Last Line: I smile, but oh, my heart is breaking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am happy, nothing can divide me
Last Line: I see the white stuff and the black stuff and decide
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Humanity; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


I'M SADDEST WHEN I SING, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You think I have a merry heart
Last Line: I'm saddest when I sing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind
Last Line: Far away, far away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ICE CANNOT CRY, by FLORENCE STEINBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears drop / splashing the heart
Last Line: Melt.
Subject(s): Cold; Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


ICE-CROWNED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glancing in armor of crystal
Last Line: Into what peace are ye borne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness


ICHABOD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A panting messenger of woe and dread
Last Line: She lost the ark, but found the living god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Israel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IDYLL 1. LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wail, wail, ah for adonis! He is lost to us, lovely
Last Line: Thou must lament him again, and again shed tears in a new year.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cythera (greek Island); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness


IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill
Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade.
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


IDYLL 3. THE EPITAPH OF BION, A LOVING HERDSMAN, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan!
Last Line: Could I charm dis with songs, I too would sing for thee.
Variant Title(s): Lament For Bion
Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Cyclops; Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IF I SHOULD DIE TONIGHT, by ARABELLA EUGENIA SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: If I should die tonight / my friends would look upon my face
Last Line: The tenderness for which I long tonight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Belle E.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IF ONLY THE DREAMS ABIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the things of earth must pass
Last Line: If only the dreams abide.
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


IF PHYLLIS DENIES ME RELIEF, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And be drunk with nothing but love
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;grief; Sorrow;sadness


IL PLEUT DOUCEMENT SUR LA VILLE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tears fall within mine heart
Last Line: Mine heart is desolate.
Subject(s): Desolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow
Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man


IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn,
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


IMPROMPTU, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You say you're glad I write - oh, say not so!
Last Line: To me, it flows a sullen stream of tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny
Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, from the heart where sorrow sits
Last Line: And droop within their silent cell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN A CERTAIN PLACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found love in a certain place
Last Line: Oh should I know him then?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IN A GARRET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In deep twilight / the rain taps upon the skylight
Last Line: Hath but now disclosed the shadowy flood of death.
Subject(s): Grief; Success; Writing & Writers; Sorrow; Sadness


IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen
Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well."
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


IN AUTUMN, by FRANCIS JAMMES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You see in autumn on the telegraph wires
Last Line: Tries, falters and, before it flees, comes back.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Faith; Grief; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


IN DEATH VALLEY, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came long stretches of volcanic plains
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN DUNGEONS DARK, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In dungeons dark I cannot sing
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN FULLER MEASURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dying so young, how much he missed!' they said
Last Line: "fame void of strife, and wisdom free from pain."
Subject(s): Death; Fame; Grief; Dead, The; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness


IN HARBOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us
Last Line: Outside?
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IN HOWARD PARK, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Call me away not yet a vagrant while!
Last Line: Here will I come and dream again my dreams.
Subject(s): Grief; Parks; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 11, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm is the morn without a sound
Last Line: Which heaves but with the heaving deep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Lincolnshire Wolds And Lincolnshire Sea;autumn;the Awakening Of Spring;the Peace Of Sorrow;in Memoriam (3)
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 5, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sometimes hold it half a sin
Last Line: Is given in outline and no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Grief Unspeakable
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 67, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When on my bed the moonlight falls
Last Line: Thy tablet glimmers in the dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


IN NEW YORK, by CLIFFORD BAX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood with men upon the crowded curb
Subject(s): New York City; Grief; Mankind; Crowds; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race


IN NEXT YEAR'S SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm home. Yes. And safe. I should give
Last Line: And I want to go back to that place!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Friendship; Grief; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War


IN PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will not faint, but trust in god
Last Line: But re-awakening on the morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Patience; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness


IN PRAISE OF REGRET, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somehow the longing we speak of
Subject(s): Grief; Regret; Sorrow; Sadness


IN PRISON, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In prison / without being accused
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SEPULCRETIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not then enough that men who give
Last Line: Not shakespeare's grave would scare them off with rhymes.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SICKNESS (1714), by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis true -- then why should I repine / to see my life so fast decline?
Last Line: When known, will save a double sorrow.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Health; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness


IN SORROW, by THOMAS HASTINGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gently, lord, oh, gently lead us
Last Line: We awake among the blest.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SORROW, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This my comfort is in sorrow
Last Line: Let no heart have bled in vain!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SORROW, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not my own sorrow that opens my mouth
Last Line: Even my life?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SORROW, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soon the thoughtless vandal
Last Line: How long before men end them?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SORROW'S HOUR, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brambles blow without you, - at the door
Last Line: Oh, that you were but here with me again!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SORROW'S NAME, by JULIA SARGENT VISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our friendship should endure forever
Last Line: Is this, that we have wept together.
Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN TENEBRIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the lights have been extinguished
Last Line: And moves gently toward the deep.
Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN', by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To the moon
Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE BLACK FOREST, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay beneath the pine trees
Last Line: For joy it never had.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE BLUE RIDGE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain night is shining, jim of tellico
Last Line: And beg him bless you, bless you ever, jim of tellico!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE LONG RUN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long run fame finds the deserving man
Last Line: In the long run.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Love; Night; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


IN THE MARSHES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do not know in the marsh
Last Line: And the waters grey with fear.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Swamps; Wales; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Welshmen; Welshwomen


IN THE NIGHT, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, o my little ones, sleep
Last Line: Rich with the tears that we weep.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Sleep; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE SHADOWS, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night the wind went singing
Last Line: Upon the harp.
Subject(s): Grief; Shadows; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE SHADOWS: 27, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O the impassable sorrow, mother mine!
Last Line: Since I, too, wear away like the unenduring snow.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE SHADOWS: 9, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A vale of tears, a wilderness of woe
Last Line: Doth the impression evermore inherit.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THE STREETS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boy, my boy, it is lonely in the city
Last Line: Oh boy—god help her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Grief; Streets; Sorrow; Sadness; Avenues


IN THE WOOD, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood
Last Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood.
Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Nature; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


IN THIS LIGHT, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sure, I used to say his name like a truth that, just
Subject(s): Language; Grief; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness


IN TIME OF GRIEF, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone
Last Line: After a fall of rain.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: I WILL SMILE NO MORE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, I will smile no more. If but for pride
Last Line: But silence only to my end of days.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


INCARNATION, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every day a woman stands in her kitchen
Last Line: For the house to fall down.
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


INFELICE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say the skies are tinted blue
Last Line: Ah, woe is me!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


INHIBITED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could not pity your pain but I pitied the branches
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Mind, The; Sorrow; Sadness


INSCRIPTIONS: 3, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies
Last Line: That riches cannot pay for truth or love.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Mourning; Travel; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Journeys; Trips


INSIDE THE CITY WALLS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A small boy in shock with a blue popsicle
Last Line: Where the foot is first firmly planted...
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


INTERIOR, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her mind lives in a quiet room,
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


INTRUSION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilies sag with rain-drops
Last Line: Your silence and the mist of soft words breaking it. ...
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Silence; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


INVINCIBLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O fate, betwixt the grinding-stones of pain
Last Line: Save bitter buds of doom.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


IRIS, HER BOOK, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray thee by the soul of her that bore thee
Last Line: No more! She leaves her memory in thy keeping.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


IT CANNOT BE WISDOM, by TANIA BROOK    Poem Text                    
First Line: This swift overture that beauty plays
Last Line: Inviolate and numb.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


IT IS THE FOLLOWING, by RUTH KNOWLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: No doubt it is the greater honor to the
Last Line: Not back into the ark again with somewhere land ahead.
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


IT JUST SO HAPPENS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You fingered the white top
Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground
Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


IT WAS NIGHT, AND ON THE MOUNTAINS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Grief; Death - Animals; Sorrow; Sadness


JE SAIS, by CHARLES T. DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If knowledge is of lovely things
Last Line: That said, goodbye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T.
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


JEANNE BRAS; A BALLAD OF SORROW, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Jeanne bras! Jeanne bras! Arise and let me in
Last Line: She seeks what she never will find.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


JIM, by GEORGE VERE HOBART    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the drum roll, rub-a-dub, dub
Last Line: If jim — poor jim — marched, too!
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War Bonds; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


JIM CAREW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born of a thoroughbred english race
Last Line: I am, or -- no, I was -- jim carew.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness


JOB'S WIFE, A TWENTIETH-CENTURY CASTING SCRIPT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Job's wife, bereft, without
Last Line: And it was not of god they spoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


JOE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My darling's silent pet
Last Line: She never envies him.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead? This peerless man of men
Last Line: Loosed in endless liberty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


JOHN WALSH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange life - strangely passed!
Last Line: " 'tis but the dross he throws away."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


JOY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't cry, it's only music
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Happiness; Grief; Love - Erotic; Joy; Delight; Sorrow; Sadness


JOY AND SORROW, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sullen skies today
Last Line: Come sweeter for past sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


JOY AND SORROW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we let joy go by
Last Line: But lo, he lingers, bidden not to stay!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


K'U-KIANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the sun like a chinese lantern
Last Line: Set in a temple of clouds.
Subject(s): China; Grief; Temples; Sorrow; Sadness; Mosques


KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kathleen mavourneen! / the song is still ringing
Last Line: Oh, why are we silent, kathleen mavourneen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Night; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


KEEPSAKE, by ALBERT SAMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her dress of tulle was patterned with pale roses
Last Line: And it was like a song that wanes away.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


KISSING THE ROD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O heart of mine, we shouldn't worry so!
Last Line: Just be glad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): Just To Be Glad
Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness


KORNER AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest
Last Line: Lyre, sword, and flower, farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): The Grave Of Korner
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Sisters; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


KYRIE ELEISON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In joy, in pain, in sorrow
Last Line: Kyrie eleison!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Theology


L'ENVOI, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've passed the grim and threatening warders
Last Line: I know my songs are nearest fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Grief; Seasons; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness


L.T.N., by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Happy winds whose wings caress
Last Line: For thine and love's sake, sweet.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


LA VITA NUOVA: 3, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, always cruel, pity's foe in chief
Last Line: May never hope to have her company.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Bereavement


LACRIMAE RERUM, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Rossetti walked his sorrow to a field
Last Line: And sorrow, and this cause for sorrow, die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


LADY ANNE BOTHWELL'S LAMENT; A SCOTTISH SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "balow, my babe, ly [lie] still and sleipe [sleep]!"
Last Line: It grieves me sair to see thee weipe
Subject(s): Disappointment;grief;love; Sorrow;sadness


LADY BYRON'S REPLY TO LORD BYRON'S FARE THEE WELL, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, farewell, farewell forever
Last Line: If thou canst -- be happy still.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady clara vere de vere / of me you shall not win renown
Last Line: And let the foolish yeoman go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love - Materialism; Sorrow; Sadness


LADY ISABELLA (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady isabella, / thou art gone away
Last Line: We too may pass away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Tears; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


LADY MONTREVOR (SEE MATURIN'S 'WILD IRISH BOY'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not look for love that is a dream
Last Line: No man shall mock me after this my day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love; Seasons; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LAMENT FOR JAMES, EARL OF GLENCAIRN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blew hollow frae the hills
Last Line: "and a' that thou hast done for me!"
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LARABELLE; CANTO THIRD, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blow that lays the soldier on the plain
Last Line: No trace is found of worthy johny green.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LARGESSE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LASSITUDE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I laid me down beside the sea
Last Line: My heart itself was cast away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LAST AND WORST, by FRANCES EKIN ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon life's highway I was hastening, when
Last Line: Your banner of despair.
Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LAST LETTER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A proper interval, and then
Subject(s): Divorce; Remarriage; Grief; Second Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness


LAURA WEEPING; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaste, lovely laura, 'gan disclose
Last Line: And to eclipse one hour be sin.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill
Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue?
Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


LEFT ON THE BATTLE-FIELD, by LAURA C. REDDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, my darling! My darling! Never to feel
Last Line: Out of the hateful light.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; U.s. - History; Sorrow; Sadness


LEWIS D. HAYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the midmost glee of the christmas
Last Line: Gave it again to him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Guests; Holidays; New Year; Voices; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting


LI HO, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Li ho of the province of honan
Last Line: He hears a child cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): China; Grief; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


LIFE, by EMILE VERHAEREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To exalt thyself all life exalted deem
Last Line: That holds the trembling universe in awe.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness


LIFE GOES ON, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wade ross turned from vesta his wife to the window
Last Line: On the beach-curve by a flood-tide spent and forgotten.
Subject(s): Grief; Guilt; Life; Love; Marriage; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LIFE IS THUS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never look behind
Last Line: Behind.
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Life; Parents; Poverty; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


LIFE'S FALLACY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All seeming hollow, all thy joys are naught!
Last Line: With griefs thou weavest alone in heart.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sickness; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness


LIFE'S PATTERN, by VERDA BORISFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wove a pattern for my life
Last Line: Grey threads of pain.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness


LIFE'S SONGS, by ELETHA MAE TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In her youth she wrote of pain
Last Line: Few know her heart is sad.
Subject(s): Grief; Women - Writers; Sorrow; Sadness


LIGHT-BORN SORROWS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hath wisdom made thee weep? Be yet more wise
Last Line: "my soul shall glory in perfected life."
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LIGHT: AN EPICEDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love will not weep because the seal is broken
Last Line: Yet light like thine is ours, if love be light.
Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells
Last Line: Lights through the mist!
Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; God; Grief; Hope; Light; Mist; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


LINES, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou camest with the coming spring!
Last Line: Death falls one day like falling snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Love; Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


LINES BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, by JOHN BOWYER BUCHANAN NICHOLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The loves that doubted, the loves that dissembled
Last Line: What should they do but weep?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nichols, Bowyer
Subject(s): Doubt; Grief; Skepticism; Sorrow; Sadness


LINES COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A DEAR FRIEND SUFFERING FROM GRIEF, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O earth! Abode of grief and sin
Last Line: The grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


LINES GIVEN TO M. AT CHRISTMAS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I give thee, dear, to-day
Last Line: The anguish of the lifted cross.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Love; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LINES TO A GROTESQUE INKSTAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who fashioned thy form
Last Line: To bewitch and control.
Subject(s): Grief; Inkstands; Sorrow; Sadness


LINES TO A LADY, by DJUNA BARNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lay her under the rusty grass
Last Line: Within the grain.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LIPPO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now we must part, my lippo. Even so
Last Line: And cast it down. -- thou art as other men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LISTEN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Having lost you, I attract substitutes
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness


LITE PENDENTE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The leaves lie dead about my feet
Last Line: Or art thou, as thou seemest, dead?
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness


LITTLE LOVER, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You made your little lover kind
Last Line: Left you to grieve to heights again.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LITTLE THINGS, by GERTRUDE GORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had almost forgotten you were gone
Last Line: Like pity we knew watching a petal fall.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn
Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


LOFTY LANE, by EDWIN GERARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Buckle the spur and belt again
Last Line: Before you halt at the lines again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Scouting & Scouts; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LONELINESS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known loneliness; - the mountain peak
Last Line: (oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


LONG CHERISHED GRIEF, by MIRIAM BARRANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of a cloud I came one day
Last Line: I had forgotten how to see.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LORD OF MY LIFE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He laid his dear face next to mine
Last Line: My grief!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Loss; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


LOST COUNTRY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This desperate sorrow is now so shared of all
Last Line: Our foreheads on the ground, a million strong?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LOST GIFTS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The years we spent together - what are they
Last Line: The joy divine that might have been our own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


LOST LOVE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His eyes are quickened so with grief
Last Line: Without relief seeking lost love.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


LOVE AND DEATH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Watcher, whose eyes are fever bright
Last Line: For death's vast mystery grows clear.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE AND DEATH, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shadow lies upon the earth
Last Line: Can this be death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE AND SORROW, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love in the country, sorrow in the town
Last Line: The brightest sunshine casts the darkest shade.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE AND SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love said one morn to sorrow
Last Line: "he said; ""o ye who are broken-hearted."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE AND SORROW, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not if the love be dead
Last Line: And this kind sorrow bring back content?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE AND SORROW, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O maiden, fresher than the first green leaf
Last Line: They never learned to love who never knew to weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE IN EXILE I: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou walkest with me as the spirit-light
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Walking; Love; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE NOT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love not, love not, ye hapless sons of clay!
Last Line: Love not!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE UNKIND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out upon the bleak hillside, the bleak
Last Line: Wept the sweet morn her crystal tears that love should prove unkind!
Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE'S CYNICISM, by GRANT HYDE CODE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wisely you smile at love's sad corollary
Last Line: Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Sorrow; Sadness


LOVE-LORN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her cage by my window swings a bird
Last Line: The strain of the singer, her mate, that died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LUCASIA, ROSANIA, AND ORINDA PARTING AT A FOUNTAIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, here are our enjoyments done
Last Line: The fears and sorrows of this day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Grief; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


LUCASTA WEEPING; SONG, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lucasta wept, and still the bright
Last Line: Kindled again his fires.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


LUCY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Last Line: The difference to me!
Variant Title(s): "the Lost Love;when Lucy Ceased To Be;song;""she Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways"";
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


LUTHER A. TODD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gifted, and loved and praised
Last Line: And, smiling, cease thy moan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Kansas; Life; Obituaries; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more
Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 39, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little songs do I utter
Last Line: What they in her bosom discover'd.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 45, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On hearing the strains enthralling
Last Line: I quench my anguish and grief.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy face, so lovely and serene
Last Line: That from thine eyes is wont to pour.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 51, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her dark attire thus wearing
Last Line: Is ended as soon as you please.
Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 61, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night in vision behold I thee
Last Line: And the word is forgotten completely.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 65, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dream-god brought me to a castle vast
Last Line: Blended with sternness, I awoke from sleep.
Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 70, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The numbers old and evil
Last Line: And in it placed my love.
Subject(s): Coffins; Dreams; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW: 5, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are brilliant heights of sorrow
Last Line: "from weeping on ""heart-break hill."
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MAD JACK'S COCKATOO, by WILLIAN RYLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a man that went out in the floodtime and drought
Last Line: Was his track-mate—the old cockatoo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bushie Bill
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness


MAD SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild winds weep
Last Line: With frantic pain.
Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Insanity; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


MADAME LA FLEURIE, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weight him down, o side-stars, with the great weightings of the end.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil
Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens.
Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


MAN BY HIMSELF, by ROBERT NATHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because my grief is quiet and apart
Last Line: Certain and unbefriended and alone.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


MANTRA, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am sad / I sing, remembering
Last Line: When I forget.
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MARCELIA; A TRAGICOMEDY, SELECTION, by FRANCES BOOTHBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: What strange effects of fortune do I prove!
Last Line: The brave, their bodies, makes their troubles urn.
Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


MARIA MINOR, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I conceived. And sorrow
Last Line: To mash my head.
Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness


MARIA, THE VILLAGE GIRL, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew a pleasant village, in a lone
Last Line: Could trace her, through the silent wood withdrew.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes
Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations


MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow
Last Line: And where the stars are led.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


MATER DOLOROSA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aw, billy, good sowl! Don't cuss! Don't cuss!
Last Line: O illiam, the sweet it'd be to die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MATER DOLOROSA, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He raised the latch in his father's door
Last Line: For mary, mother, hears an' sees.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Solitude; Women - Bible; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Loneliness


MATEY (CAMBRIN, MAY 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not comin' back tonight, matey
Last Line: But gawd! It went through me 'eart.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War


MAUREEN ASHORE, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lovely wife, who yestermorn didst bring
Last Line: 08/12/09
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Marriage; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky is perfectly clear
Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


MAY YOU ALWAYS BE THE DARLING OF FORTUNE, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: March 10th and the snow flees like eloping brides
Last Line: Vigilant.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


MAYTIME IN MIDWINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A new year gleams on us, tearful
Last Line: And life, through love of you, love.
Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness


ME, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden
Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness


MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 17, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Maid marjory sits at the castle gate
Last Line: And men will say they were true lovers sweet
Subject(s): Grief;love - Loss Of; Sorrow;sadness


MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 8, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o love, my love, and perfect bliss!"
Last Line: The sweet winds at their play
Subject(s): Grief;prayer; Sorrow;sadness


MEED OF SORROW, by GEORGE H. SOULE JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the nearer bank of that dark shore
Last Line: She smiled a smile of utter tenderness.
Subject(s): Grief; Yale University; Sorrow; Sadness


MEJNUN AND LAILI (AFTER THE PERSIC), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drugged at the breast of anguish, nursed
Last Line: And toward the desert ran.
Subject(s): Arabia; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


MELANCHOLIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out hideous monster; in thy name
Last Line: Which can be sober, yet not dull.
Subject(s): Grief; Hell; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness


MELANIE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood on yonder rocky brow
Last Line: Peace to the broken-hearted dead!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sisters; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MEMENTO MORI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor the pleasure
Last Line: What ends to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MEMORANDUM, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If distraught shall be the word or not
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE WAR DEAD, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
Last Line: Behind all this some great happiness is hiding
Subject(s): Grief; Memorial Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day


MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking
Last Line: "just to god and man."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness


MEMORY, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My childhood's home I see again
Last Line: And feel I'm part of thee!
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Home; Memory; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


MENAPHON'S SONG IN HIS BED, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You restless cares, companions of the night
Last Line: "welcome sweet grief, the subject of my lays."
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MENAPHON: MENAPHON'S DITTY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair fields, proud flora's vaunt, why is 't you smile when I lanquish
Last Line: Till proud she repent.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MENAPHON: SEPHESTIA'S [CRADLE] SONG TO HER CHILD, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee
Last Line: When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.
Variant Title(s): Sephestia's Lullaby
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke
Last Line: A wrinkle on the water.
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism


MIDNIGHT: 1917, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I drink my blood in secret grief, I weep
Last Line: When hate has loosed its hounds of hell and death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War; Sorrow; Sadness


MIDSUMMER, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You loved me for a little
Last Line: The kiss I never had.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MILES WEATHERHILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh give attention, you pretty maidens"
Last Line: "may we meet in heaven, my sweet sarah bell"
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;grief;love;murder; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


MINNIE AND HER DOVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two days she miss'd her dove, and then alas
Last Line: Eclipse thy memory of the kite and dove.
Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MISSING YOU, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary
Last Line: Only this.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


MO-LENNAV-A-CHREE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eilidh, eilidh, eilidh, dear to me, dear and sweet
Last Line: Mo-lennav-a-chree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): The Closing Doors
Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Loss; Memory; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MOMENTOS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves
Last Line: In some more cheerful room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Memory; Time; Grief; Marriage; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The


MONODY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To have known him, to have loved him
Last Line: That hid the shyest grape.
Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Sorrow; Sadness


MONODY, by OVRO'OM RAISIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: She is playing
Last Line: I'm the dark ...
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument.
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MOODS, by AMICUS [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: O pensive passenger! Do not deny
Last Line: This narrow spot the vernal maiden's doom
Alternate Author Name(s): Amicus
Subject(s): Cold;death;graves;grief; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;sorrow;sadness;


MOON-WROUGHT TIDES, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING    Poem Text                    
First Line: How often have I prayed that I might cease
Last Line: I almost long to live and love again.
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech
Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (mountains); Sorrow; Sadness


MORAL, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moral is this: when we rob friend or foe
Last Line: Dyspepsia would never have brought him to grief!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MORAL ALCHEMY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The toils of alchemists, whose vain pursuit
Last Line: And man's most welcome hymn is grateful cheerfulness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Grief; Morality; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Ethics


MORNING SORROWS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad memory wakes anew at morning's touch
Last Line: And, when we bow, we help our climbing hope.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MOTETS: 7, by EUGENIO MONTALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black and white ups and downs of the
Subject(s): Grief; Absence; Sorrow; Sadness; Separation; Isolation


MOTHER AND CHILD, by EUGENE MANUEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: On my way homewards through the soft night's calms
Last Line: And I believed, as you too would have done.
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


MOTHER GOOSE (4), by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not pick my rosemary
Last Line: And throw them after me
Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MOTHER'S GRIEF, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dry-eyed she sat up waiting through the night
Last Line: A poignant pain is dumb and gnaws the bone.
Subject(s): Boys; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness


MOTHERS, by JANE URQUHART    Poem Text                    
First Line: As once that stoic boy of sparta old
Last Line: To keep from men the heritage of fear.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mothers; Sons; Sparta, Greece; Sorrow; Sadness


MOTLEY: THE GHOST, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful
Last Line: The sweet cheat gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Love; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness


MOURNING, by ANDREW MARVELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, that decipher out the fate
Last Line: It is to be suppos'd they grieve.
Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


MOURNING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas my brother! The cry of the mourners of old
Last Line: Alas my brother!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now utter calm and rest
Last Line: God's will her will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sleep; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MUNDUS MOROSUS (THE WORLD MOROSE), by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the wild beasts in the woods complain
Last Line: None love us, trust us, welcome us, but thou.
Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Mourning; Strikes; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Labor Disputes; Lockouts


MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan
Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore?
Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From some abiding central source of power
Last Line: O even wings of music, bear my soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Past; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


MUTABILITY, by EVELYN HAZLETT HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the pewter cup of life / pour agony
Last Line: Ere long.
Subject(s): Grief; Mutability; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


MY BROTHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! And he has died so young
Last Line: Those we grieve for love us yet!
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Life; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


MY CLOUD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a cloud, a private little cloud
Last Line: The thicker is its shadow over me!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MY EARTHLY LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No dim and dreamy ghost I sing
Last Line: And only feed on bitter breath.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


MY GRIEF ON THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: His mouth to my mouth
Subject(s): Grief;sea;sea Voyages; Sorrow;sadness;ocean


MY HEART, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is like a prisoned bird
Last Line: At last, my mission is fulfilled!
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness


MY HEART IS HEAVY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is heavy with many a song
Last Line: Take it, no one will know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MY LOVE LIES DEAD, by EUGENE FOSTER MCSPEDDEN    Poem Text                    
Last Line: The sun must set but day-dawn never fails!
Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness


MY LUTE AND I, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At most mischief / I suffer grief
Last Line: To sigh and moan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Song: 31
Subject(s): Grief; Lutes; Sorrow; Sadness


MY PORTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not what a day may bring
Last Line: And one the boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MY SHIP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to the wharves, as the sun goes down
Last Line: And watch to see if my ship comes in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne
Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; Sorrow; Sadness


MY SISTER'S FUNERAL, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since there was no mother for the peach tree we did it
Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Funerals; Grief; Death - Babies; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


MY SON, by JAMES D. HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: God gave my son in trust to me
Last Line: And cheer for him whose work is done.
Subject(s): Grief; Patriotism; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War


MY SONG, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To understand the song I sing
Last Line: You'll understand my song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


MY THREE GUESTS: GRIEF, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A storm is raging and a fierce wind blows
Last Line: Destroying rest at night and happy days.
Subject(s): Grief; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness


MY THREE GUESTS: SORROW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came another guest unto my door
Last Line: As long as life may last the scars are worn.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MY TRUNDLE BED, by J. G. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I rummaged through the attic
Last Line: "father, do thou bless my child."
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


MYSTERY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does this sudden passion smite me?
Last Line: "till sorrow die from you."
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


NAME FOR GRIEF, by HELEN BRYANT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tell me any, any, tell me your name for grief
Last Line: Of a young girl shakes in the withered crone.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Names; Sorrow; Sadness


NATURE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The paradise of man has varied in its claims
Last Line: Still lingers far beyond the shadows of the grave.
Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Nature; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


NEVER TOO LATE: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the valley gan he track
Last Line: Weeds and sorrow were for love.
Variant Title(s): Palmer's Ode;the Palmer
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I look about the place
Last Line: "nothing grief-full grows from love."
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Convicts


NEW GRIEF, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where two had walked awhile, now only one
Last Line: Or wholly perish.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


NEW SPRING: 38, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring is solemn, mournful only
Last Line: To kiss a tear from off thy face.
Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness


NEW TALE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The bells rang for a king inevitably winning
Last Line: Under black roofs lonely spinners. No gold. No bride.
Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


NIGHT, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The spent winds on the mountain slopes at peace
Last Line: And in my heart thou singest evermore!
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!
Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me!
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just
Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more.
Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect


NO FUNERAL GLOOM, by ELLEN TERRY    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And so to where I wait come gently on.
Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


NO SORROW PECULIAR TO THE SUFFERER, by VINCENT BOURNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lover, in melodious verses
Last Line: Nor thou alone hast lost thy wits.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


NO!, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have closed my ears, I refuse
Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness


NOSTALGIA, by GWENDOLEN HASTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He brought the record home with sheepish pride
Last Line: With great buttes shouldering the windy skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs
Subject(s): Grief; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness


NOT A GREEN WILLOW, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a green willow, veiled to hide her weeping,
Last Line: Rest after labor, quiet after strife!
Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness


NOT THOU BUT I, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It must have been for one of us, my own
Last Line: Thou hadst the peace and I the undying pain.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


NOTE OF GRIEF, by GERALD W. THOMSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dreamy freshness of a mid-pacific day and I are one
Last Line: Made for an endless day toward the deepest night.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour
Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks


NOVEMBER TREES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sad november trees
Last Line: Through death of last year's leaf?
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Leaves; Nature; Trees; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ODE ON A LYCIAN TOMB, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What gracious nunnery of grief is here!
Last Line: The instrument o'er which his fateful fingers range.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Les Pleureuses (monument); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by JOSEPH WARTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more of mirth and rural joys
Last Line: "well-pleas'd I listen to thy lays of love."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Praise; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, BY A LADY, by J. W.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Accept, o sacred shade, this artless verse
Last Line: Save me from slavish vice, from folly, and from ill.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


ODE ON THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I laid my laurel-leaf
Last Line: We call thee and we charge thee that all these be free.
Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Grief; Revolutions; War; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


ODE TO A THISTLE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Naught in fell or field, I trow
Last Line: And salute thee reigning.
Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Love; Sin; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears
Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied?
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


OF MY DEAR SON [GERVASE BEAUMONT], by JOHN BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I, who have for others oft compiled
Last Line: How to this port at every step I go.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mourning; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


OLD AGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What mean the days and years that pass
Last Line: Upon the silver wings of peace.
Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Grief; Memory; Past; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


OLD KING COLE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In tilbury town did old king cole
Last Line: "that's good. The sun will soon be rising."
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


OLD POEM: 17, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At fifteen I went with the army
Last Line: While tears fell and wetted my clothes
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief;homecoming; Sorrow;sadness


ON A DEAD BABE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly away! Thou heavenly one!--
Last Line: But I can not weep fer thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Babies; Death; Grief; Infants; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ON A GRAVE IN CHRIST-CHURCH, HANTS, by OSCAR FAY ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Turning from shelley's sculptured face aside
Last Line: Of sorrow kills as oft as frost the leaf.
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


ON A LADY WHO P-SSED AT THE TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While maudlin whigs deplored their cato's fate
Last Line: For that road leads directly to the heart.
Subject(s): Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ON ANOTHER'S SORROW, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can I see another's woe
Last Line: He doth sit by us and moan.
Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Mythology; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


ON BEING FORCED TO PART WITH HIS LIBRARY FOR BENEFIT OF HIS CREDITORS, by WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one who destined from his friends to part
Last Line: And kindred spirits meet to part no more.
Subject(s): Books; Debt; Grief; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness


ON BEING TOLD THAT' TIME CURES SORROW, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grief has vanquished me
Last Line: "ah, that was years ago."
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


ON HER ENDEAVOURING TO CONCEAL HER GRIEF AT PARTING, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Wherefore should my weeping maid suppress
Last Line: Nor think it weakness what we feel to show.
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


ON HIS MISTRESS DROWNED, by THOMAS SPRAT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet stream, that dost with equal pace
Last Line: These tears, these tears shall mend thy way.
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Love; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ON LEAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have reached a green, green island
Last Line: I have touched at the isle of the blest.
Subject(s): Grief; Islands; Rivers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


ON MY BOY HENRY, by JANE CAVENDISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lyes a boy ye finest child from me
Last Line: I mourne not for thy birth, nor cry.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Hearts; Soul; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


ON MY DOG'S DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My friend has gone
Last Line: I am learning to listen.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Faith; Friendship; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


ON RECEIVING A BRANCH OF MEZEREON WHICH FLOWERED AT WOODSTOCK, by MARY TIGHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Odours of spring, my sense ye charm
Last Line: Who asks your lingering thoughts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ON RESIGNATION, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear child, know this, that he who gave thee breath
Last Line: And trust in god thro' his beloved son.
Subject(s): Affliction; Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Pain; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car
Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement


ON THE DEATH OF A CAT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall tell the lady's grief?
Last Line: Nor disturb her narrow bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis
Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee!
Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For that my son hath lost his mortal shrine
Last Line: Sons of the ruffians who did murder thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Sons; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green be the turf above thee
Last Line: That mourns a man like thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Variant Title(s): Elegy In Memory Of Joseph Rodman Drake;joseph Rodman Drake, Died In New York, September, 1820;joseph Rodman Drake
Subject(s): Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He hath been mourned as brave men mourn the brave
Last Line: It was a mother's -- and is broken now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Navy - United States; Pirates; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers


ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree
Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime


ON THE DEATH OF MARY COWDEN CLARKE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She who saw blue-eyed shelley plain is gone
Last Line: Now that their last contemporary dies.
Subject(s): Clarke, Mary Cowden (1809-1898); Death; Finality; Funerals; Grief; Loss; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a dismal and a fearful night
Last Line: Where grief and misery can be joyn'd with verse.
Subject(s): Grief; Hervey, William; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


ON THE DEATH OF OLD BENNET THE NEWS-CRIER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "one evening, when the sun was just gone down"
Last Line: "homer and bennet were in this agreed, / homer was blind, and bennet could not read"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;death;grief;news;silence; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces
Last Line: May best deserve our love.
Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD DOYLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A light of blameless laughter, fancy-bred
Last Line: Between the grass grown greener round his head.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine
Last Line: And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West;on The Death Of Mr.richard West
Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; West, Richard (1716-1742); Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


ON THE DEATH OF SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare
Last Line: She said, and vanish'd with the sweeping blast.
Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Graves; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE EARL OF ESSEX, by HENRY KING (1592-1669)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Essex, twice made unhappy by a wife
Last Line: Contracted be into a span of dust.
Subject(s): Divorce; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 3d Earl Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ON THE THRESHOLD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am standing on the threshold of eternity at last
Last Line: "I'll let you know which shortly -- farewell, a long farewell"
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness


ONE LIFE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I am hurt to death, my love
Last Line: But not for me, -- 't is not for me.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ONE OF THE DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Paler, not quite so fair as in her life
Last Line: Friends, she but slumbers, wherefore do ye weep?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who / are these two women, walking
Last Line: America, welcome home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians


ORDEAL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love and pity are pleading with me this
Last Line: Where the dark immortal would shepherd our weeping souls?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


ORGAN SONGS: COME UNTO ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come unto me, the master says
Last Line: And that will make thee well.
Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures; Suffering; Misery


ORGAN SONGS: RONDEL, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I follow, tottering, in the funeral train
Last Line: Outworn necessities to the welcoming grave!
Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


ORGAN SONGS: SYMPATHY, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief held me silent in my seat
Last Line: Smile in my infant's smile.
Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Grief; Sympathy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy


ORINDA UPON LITTLE HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twice forty months of wedlock I did stay
Last Line: The last of thy unhappy mothers verse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Loss; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


OUR DAILY PATHS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Last Line: By the beauty and the grief alike, we are training for the skies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness


OUR LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our merry little daughter
Last Line: To give my mother sorrow!
Subject(s): Daughters;girls;grief;mothers & Daughters;parents; Sorrow;sadness;parenthood


OURSELVES ALONE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning, when dreaming in deep meditation
Last Line: "standing together, ourselves — and alone."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness


OUT OF DISCONTENT, by GLENNYS RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somewhere, I know, is peace for weary eyes
Last Line: Distill our griefs to dissipate our fears.
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 6, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: These are the little things that stir the heart
Last Line: I have the vision and it shall not fade.
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


OVER, by ROBERT FINCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is over, the ceaseless search is over
Last Line: Nothing to lose when what is lost was all.
Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Loss; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness


OVER THE WATER, by LUCILE ENLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sailing out to sea. Hark!
Last Line: And sailing into dawn!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PACKING THE WEIGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's easy when you breeze along
Last Line: Can you still pack weight and win?
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


PAGE 39, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arrives early for the date
Subject(s): Abortion; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PALMISTRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You gave me a geranium leaf
Last Line: When I am in the valley sleeping.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTHUS: GRIEF, by MARY SIDNEY WROTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Griefe, killing griefe, have nott my torments binn
Last Line: Burning my hart who had him kindly warmd.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wroth, Mary, Lady; Montgomery, Countess Of
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


PARTING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed the setting sun would rise no more
Last Line: With longing deep as everlasting night.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PARTING, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A moment more, the swelling sails
Last Line: Within the grave a dreamless rest!
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


PASSING AND PERMANENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stately boats, with happy crowds
Last Line: Do not drain your glass!
Subject(s): Boats; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PAST AND PRESENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Linger,' I cried, 'o radiant time!'
Last Line: I prize the past much, but the present more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


PAST SORROWS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: As tangled driftwood barring up a stream
Last Line: Forgets the old griefs, and heals their deepest scars.
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Islands; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


PEACE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Peace! Is it the dull
Last Line: "in thine own place, thy soul shall find its peace."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


PEACE, PEACE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace, peace, broken heart, peace!
Last Line: A dead thing beneath a dead sky.
Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness


PEACE-YEARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O let thy wounds bleed on, and let
Last Line: Our loving mothers never bore us.
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Peace; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


PEBBLES, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One whined, o why into this wide and / lonely
Last Line: Of voices in a wood of april buds.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


PENANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to go back to singapore
Last Line: I want to go back to penang! I want to go back!
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Peace; Singapore; Sorrow; Sadness


PENELOPE TO ULYSSES, SELECTION, by ANNE WHARTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Penelope this slow epistle sends
Last Line: Would troy were glorious still, so I had you...
Subject(s): Grief; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness; Iliad; Odyssey


PENIEL, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My rachel and my benjamin, o lord
Last Line: "my heart and flesh cry, ""god of bethel, come!"
Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


PENSIVE MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still watching near the swards of eden
Last Line: And grasp all human interest and pain.
Subject(s): Eden; Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


PERFECT GRIEF, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wandering, wise, outcast sons
Last Line: The haughty silence of my love.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PHANTOMS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back, ye phantoms of the past
Last Line: Call upon me still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Future; Ghosts; Grief; Hearts; Past; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness


PHILANDER, AN IMITATION OF SPENCER: ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM LEVINZ, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me, ye weeping nine
Last Line: And you in stella see philanders yet unborn!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Piety; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


PHOTOGRAPH OF DELMORE SCHWARTZ, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A young king
Subject(s): Schwartz, Delmore (1913-1966); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PHYLLIS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phyllis, ah, phyllis, my life is a gray day
Last Line: Phyllis, ah, phyllis, my life is a gray day.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PICTURES IN THE FIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it you ask me, darling?
Last Line: And the fire had died away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears; Travel; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 2. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glowing ruddy sun descends
Last Line: I sorrow no longer.
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Moon; Stars; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


PIERROT IN HALF-MOURNING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, that am pierrot, pray you pity me
Last Line: All, but she'll love me yet, she'll love me yet!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field
Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen!—
Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And my beautiful daughter
Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


PITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The twinkling mists of green and gold
Last Line: From unknown hollows blew.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy


PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have told my pain to the wood
Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe?
Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: That is your little playmate, jane
Last Line: Would any child not die!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


PLORATA VERIS LACHRYMIS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O now, my true and dearest bride
Last Line: My life may now be waning.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness


POEM, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early
Last Line: And drove some more — unable to sleep in missouri.
Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


POEM ABOUT NOTHING, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young / I fell in love / with nothing
Last Line: And we lack for nothing.
Subject(s): Grief; Nothingness; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Nihilism; Voids


POEM ENDING WITH A LINE FROM DANTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow coming in parallel to the street
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Anger; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


POEM: 4, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Edward our comely king
Last Line: And keþed him in þe berde.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; France; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


POEM: 5, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Minot with mowth had menid to make
Last Line: God assoyle þaire sawls, sais all, amen.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; War; Sorrow; Sadness


POEM: 9, by LAURENCE MINOT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sir david pe bruse -- was at distance
Last Line: Pus was dauid þe bruse -- into þe toure tane.
Subject(s): England; Grief; War; English; Sorrow; Sadness


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent
Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness


POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: TO HER LADISHIP, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If those salt showers that your sad eyes haue shed
Last Line: That your so loued mate is gone before.
Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Grief; Loss; Rain; Reason; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


POESY, by WILLIAM FINLAYSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O poesy! How often hast thou sooth'd
Last Line: And all the vain contempt a scoffing world can show.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 3. AUTUMN SADNESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From grief no hope could numb
Last Line: Does autumn sadness come.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


POLLY PERKINS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I am a broken - hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed"
Last Line: It was a bow - legged conductor of a twopenny bus
Subject(s): Grief;love;marriage; Sorrow;sadness;weddings;husbands;wives


POOR MARY, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay stranger - see yon drooping fair
Last Line: Poor mary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


POPULAR BALLAD: NEVER FORGET YOUR PARENTS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A young man once was sitting
Last Line: You would not have been born.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Gratitude; Grief; Parents; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


POST MORTEM, by JAMES MONAHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since ending must be, this was how to end
Last Line: What comfort is there since she went from me?
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine
Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery


POTLUCK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: You came one day when all I had a-stew
Last Line: Was that dark dish from my rose-garland plate?
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Love; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness


PRAISE OF LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And shall love cease? Ask thine own heart, o woman
Last Line: And leads to endless glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Passion; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness


PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream
Last Line: Long grass.
Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery


PRESCIENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The new moon hung in the sky
Last Line: And a sorrow that was to be!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PRESENT AND FUTURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is life that we should love it
Last Line: Ever glowing more and more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Future; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sun; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America


PROMISE, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We laughed together in the quiet glade
Last Line: And tried to freshen it with tears.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PSALM 137. 'BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON', by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sat us down and wept
Last Line: And lay it in the sleep of death beside its father's grave.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


PSALM: 9, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee & thy wondrous deeds, o god
Last Line: They been but men of mortall kind.
Subject(s): Fear; God; Grief; Hope; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


PSYCHOLOGY FIVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more of despair you poets
Last Line: "only means sanitation and health."
Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these your eyes, isla
Last Line: Pulse of my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


QUATORZAINS: 4. TO SOUND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit, who steals from silence's embrace
Last Line: Or sleep for ever in my charmed ear.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Sound; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


QUATRAIN: SILENCE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her weary head poised on one upraised hand
Last Line: What thought is hidden in her aching heart.
Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


QUATRAINS (FOR FOUR DRAWINGS BY JORGE PALOMINO): 3. SORROW, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nay, look again, and up, blind eyes of fear
Last Line: The stricken soul still rises and aspires.
Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


QUATRAINS: THE FRIENDS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Share not thy joy with me, o friend the best
Last Line: And mine own grief would be too great to bear.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


QUERY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can alleviate
Last Line: The sorrows of the poor?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


RAIN ON FALL NIGHTS, by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: It rained the night we buried him
Last Line: Leaving some room for laughter?
Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness


REBUS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You work with what you are given
Last Line: How can I enter this question the clay has asked?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


RED DUST, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This harpie with dry red curls
Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness


REDBREAST EARLY IN THE MORNING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


REFLECTIONS ON MY OWN SITUATION, WRITTEN IN T-TT-NGST-NE HOUSE, by ANN CANDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How many years are past and gone
Last Line: But guide me with thy care.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


REMEMBER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In thy time, and times of mourning
Last Line: "through rocks he cutteth out rivers."
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat
Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light.
Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness


REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ruined and ill, - a man of two score
Last Line: Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Daughters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


REMEMBRANCE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee!
Last Line: How could I seek the empty world again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Variant Title(s): R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida
Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


REMEMBRANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more: let there be no more said
Last Line: Farewell, dead love: no more the same road we fare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Graves; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


REMORSE, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad is the thought of sunniest days
Last Line: With the virgin dew upon them.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf
Last Line: I shall never know!
Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


REPENTANCE, by FLORENCE RALSTON WERUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: When heavy sorrow weighs the heart
Last Line: Too blind to see god's brooding eyes.
Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence


RESIGNATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sadder moments of a wearied hope
Last Line: Into the calm majestic life of god.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Grief; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


RESPITE, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, to-night / pity lords it over pain
Last Line: Let your sleeping sorrow say.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


RESPONSES, by OTAKAR BREZINA    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are curse-laden: even amid our yearnings
Last Line: "they have revealed."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


REST AT EVENING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the weariness of life is ended
Last Line: O how poor a day to be so blest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Life; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


RETRIBUTION, by HELEN MARGUERITE PERRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Teardrops splash the windows of the soul
Last Line: To prove a heart has broken—died—and bled!
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


RETROSPECTIONS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night she will dance at the palace
Last Line: With fresh wild-flowers in her hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Memory; Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag
Last Line: He was all the world to her.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


REVERIE AT TWILIGHT, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: The past is shadowy with mist
Last Line: And the night is frosted delicately with grief.
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


ROADSIDE POEMS: A DREAM OF WAKING, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A child was born in sin and shame
Last Line: And melt the earthly dream.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


ROMAN STRIPES, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is new in the fostering world
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile
Last Line: In the land of andalusia.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To gireve, always to suffer
Subject(s): Grief; Transience; Sorrow; Sadness; Impermanence


RONDEAU OF SECRET SORROW, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Howe hard a thynge it is to dree
Last Line: How hard a thynge it is to dree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan
Subject(s): Grief; Secrets; Sorrow; Sadness


RONDEAU: 5, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Help me to seek for I lost it there
Last Line: Help me to seek.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 17
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilacs are in bloom
Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom.
Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness


RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet
Last Line: Kissing her hair.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


ROSALIE, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O pour upon my soul again
Last Line: In music to her soul.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat upon a mountain
Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ROSAMUND GRIEF, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I fasted, prayed and scourged myself
Last Line: An angel in god's sight.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


ROSE DOLORES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moan of rose dolores, she made
Last Line: "I know whose kiss was in the wind—o jailer, set me free!"
Subject(s): Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Women - Captives; Sorrow; Sadness


ROY ORBISON AND JOHN MILTON ARE STILL DREAMING, by APRIL BERNARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know what I mean: in the instant
Subject(s): Separation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


RUTH, by H. HYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not
Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go.
Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness


SAD MADRIGAL, SELECTION, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What care I that you be wise?
Last Line: With the storm the bloom appears.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Storms; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


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


SAD! SAD!, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sad, when grass is green
Last Line: Sad! Sad!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SADNESS, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, mr. Jackson swept the court
Last Line: And all on account of the beautiful dirt.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SADNESS AND MIRTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye met at the stately feasts of old
Last Line: And joy reigns alone, as the lonely sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SALT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is as salt
Last Line: What he needs
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


SAPPHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh
Last Line: Unwept, untended and alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Pain; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SARA, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain
Last Line: A white cloth against the glass
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


SATIA TE SANGWINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you loved me ever so little
Last Line: I hope he will some day die.
Variant Title(s): Satia Te Sanguine
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


SATURDAY NIGHT IN FLEET STREET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where for six long days the traffic whirled
Last Line: The hair of sorrow falls, in long, dark streams.
Subject(s): City Traffic; Fleet Street, London; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SAUCE FOR SORROWES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although our suffering meet with no reliefe
Last Line: An equall mind is the best sauce for griefe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SAVONAROLA BURNING, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And there are no more emperors in rome
Last Line: Each time a monk believes in liberty!
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Grief; Peace; Rome, Italy; War; Sorrow; Sadness


SAVORING THE PAST, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am savoring the past
Last Line: As it breaks my heart again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Past; Sorrow; Sadness


SCANDAL VANDALS, by NEVA MCFARLAND WADHAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ruthlessly tearing a rose apart
Last Line: Stripping a soul and beauty -- bare.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SCARLET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow
Last Line: Bethink thee: today must end; there is no end of tomorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


SCHOLAR AND CARPENTER, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While ripening corn grew thick and deep
Last Line: "but god go with the carpenter."
Subject(s): Carpenters; Grief; Love; Scholarship & Scholars; Sorrow; Sadness


SCHUBERT IN FLORIDA, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you slunk across my dream
Subject(s): Divorce; Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness


SCULPTURE, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If there is an end
Last Line: Whittled my sleep with a rasp.
Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness


SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck
Last Line: Twill be memorial day.
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day


SEA VOICES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the wintry sea
Last Line: Claim me evermore.
Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


SEDGE SONGS: 3, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Angry sunset sky
Last Line: Thy long tresses fly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Longing; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds


SELF-COMMUNING, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be wise, my sorrow, quit thy vain unrest
Last Line: The soft night draws her long shroud down the skies.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SELF-COMMUNING, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be wise, my sorrow! Keep thee now more still
Last Line: Hear, hear, dear friend, the steps of welcome night.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SELFISHNESS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Death takes our loved ones
Last Line: The dead know nought of sorrow.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SELICHOTH, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the pride of the rose is the image of sorrow
Last Line: So prayeth the jew with the genius of sorrow!
Subject(s): Grief; Israel; Jews; Synagogues; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


SEPULCHRE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have mounded the corpse of my sorrow
Last Line: May know what lies buried there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SERAPHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When at evening in the forest
Last Line: Each in the other's love blest.
Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Moon; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


SHADOW ON THE SAND, by DEDIE HUFFMAN WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here where old sea-trails
Last Line: Wailing at night.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SHADOWED SOULS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She died indeed, but to him her breath
Last Line: "the soul thou didst thy most to have slain."
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Silence; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask for justice but do not release
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness


SHAPES, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the longer view it doesn't matter
Last Line: At the farthest edge; accepting that blur.
Subject(s): Grief; Homeless; Loss; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy


SHE GRIEVES IN THE DUSK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, he was white and slender
Last Line: Thinking him true.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SHEEPIEKNOWE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aul' sheepieknowe! How dear the name!
Last Line: Rest, weary heart! Peace, peace to thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Cousins; Grief; Scotland; Sorrow; Sadness


SHIPMATE SORROW, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was shipmates with sorrow in a day gone by
Last Line: And it's old sorrow singing out of times gone by!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SHORT FAREWELLS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A toast is the right length, I think
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Toasts; Farewell; Grief; Aging; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO QUINTO. CONTENT, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day, a night, an hour of sweet content
Last Line: But hast thou bliss in youth? O sweet estate!
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


SILENCES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a world of silences. I gave a cry
Last Line: With even a sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


SILENT SORROW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If she unclosed her lips and made her moan
Last Line: And, meeting them, we silently salute.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SILVER AND LAVENDER, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: The asters now put on the lavender
Last Line: Silver and lavender clothes earth and sky.
Subject(s): Asters; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Grief; Lavender; Silver; Sorrow; Sadness


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


SIMEON SINGER, by JOHN CHAPMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, weep not for the dead.' alas! How weak
Last Line: "an angel of the lord of hosts is he."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jews; Peace; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


SIMONE, by REMY DE GOURMONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Simone, white as your neck is the snow I see
Last Line: Your brow is sad beneath your auburn hair.
Subject(s): Cold; Grief; Snow; White (color); Sorrow; Sadness


SINCE NELLIE GOT THE HOOK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cloud of sorrow darks the house
Last Line: (chorus)
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


SISTER MADELEINE, by CLARE EVEREST    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blessed hush of eventide
Last Line: "into the ""silent land."
Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


SISTER SORROW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found her walking in a lonely place
Last Line: May I not reach some blessedness untold?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SKETCH OF AN OCCURRENCE ON BOARD A BRIG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea
Last Line: Where sank, and died alone, the broken-hearted maid.
Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


SKID ROW, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the depths have I cried, o lord,
Last Line: The bruised reed breaks and the sparrow falls.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


SLAVE, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nude, sordid, frightful, offal-fed, a slave
Last Line: Objectivity, its careful workmanship, and its reserve.
Subject(s): Grief; Slavery; Sorrow; Sadness; Serfs


SLAVE TRADE: NEW ORLEANS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To begin with, the slaves had to wash themselves well
Subject(s): Slavery; Mothers; Grief; Serfs; Sorrow; Sadness


SLEEP (A WOMAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep
Last Line: Never to want, never to wish for thee!
Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Bedtime


SMALL PRAYER, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day
Last Line: After the healing ends
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SOLITUDE, by HAROLD MONRO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you have tidied all things for the night
Last Line: Solitude walks one heavy step more near.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


SOME PART OF THE LYRIC, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some part of the lyric wants to exclude
Last Line: Reflects the world it meant to exclude.
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Poetry & Poets; World; Sorrow; Sadness


SOMEBODY TRYING, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Http://www.Poetryfoundation.Org/poem/238458
Last Line: Trudging behind his funeral, he earned
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Social Classes; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Caste


SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "flow not so fast, ye fountains"
Last Line: Must still fall dropping from their spheres
Subject(s): Grief;tears; Sorrow;sadness


SONG, by MAURICE BARING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To hide my sorrow's secret smart
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart, my heart is heavy
Last Line: I wish he would shoot me dead!
Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG, by CHRISTIAN MILNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At eve, when dee's transparent stream
Last Line: For him who far, far hence lies low!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love laid his sleepless head
Last Line: But day shall bring back delight.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Bedtime


SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the world's asleep
Last Line: Or fly within and bid them close the gate?
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


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


SONG (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We buried her among the flower
Last Line: Fair, with the selfsame smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Flowers; Funerals; Grief; Tears; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG (3), by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit haunts the year's last hours
Last Line: Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG (5), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat and sang alway
Last Line: Her songs died on the air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG AND SINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw him once, the while he sat and played
Last Line: Keep an immortal youth.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


SONG BEFORE DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet mother, in a minute's span
Last Line: My true love to my dying day.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG FOR A DEAD SPARROW, by ALICE MONKS MEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Small, unmourned-for one
Last Line: On his own heart.
Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Grief; Heaven; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


SONG OF AUTUMN, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When a sighing begins
Last Line: A dead leaf.
Variant Title(s): Chansons D'automne
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG OF THE BOWMEN OF SHU, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here we are, picking the first fern-shoots"
Last Line: "our mind is full of sorrow, who will know of our grief"
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief; Sorrow;sadness


SONG OF THE DESPERATE ONE, by CHARLES VILDRAC    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the days and down the years
Last Line: Over every joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SONG OF THE ROUND MEN, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The round and sad-eyed man puffed cigars as if
Subject(s): Grief; Identity; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take, o, take those lips away
Last Line: Bound in those icy chains by thee.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG, FR. SYLVIA (OPERA), by GEORGE LILLO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sweet and blushing rose
Last Line: And grief on joy attends.
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 10, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To wish and want and not obtain
Last Line: What may it avail me?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Despair; Fortune; Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 105, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now all of change / must be my song
Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 106, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone musing / remember
Last Line: From her never to depart?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Life; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 23, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So unwarely was never no man caught
Last Line: This restless life I may not lead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Life; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 24, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since you will needs that I shall sing
Last Line: Within my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By nought but sorrow attended
Last Line: On your friendship I cannot rely.
Subject(s): Birds; Friendship; Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SONG: 35, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, what it is to love!
Last Line: Who now doth slander love, &c.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 87
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 46, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All heavy minds / do seek to ease their charge
Last Line: Is clean in vain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauteous cradle of my sorrow
Last Line: In a chilly distant tomb.
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 53, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, the grief and deadly woful smart
Last Line: To whomsoever lust for to proffer most.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 55, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast
Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Of Love
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 58, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love, loved, and so doth she
Last Line: To love so well and leave in smart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Songs


SONG: 59, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suffering in sorrow, in hope to attain
Last Line: Content to serve and suffer still I must.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


SONG: 62, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing
Last Line: And never to change you for no new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Songs


SONG: 68, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, my heart, ah, what aileth thee
Last Line: Ah! My heart, ah! What aileth thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): To His Heart
Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Hearts; Love; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 75, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Desire to sorrow doth me constrain
Last Line: By patience.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


SONG: 77. THE ANSWER, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even when you lust, ye may refrain
Last Line: I am not ruled by fantasy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Fantasy; Grief; Love; Lust; Sorrow; Sadness


SONG: 81, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, what undeserved cruelty
Last Line: Till my careful life may turn contrary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SONGS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus I said to my heart in a pet t'other day
Last Line: And vows I shall never possess him again.
Subject(s): Deception; Desire; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


SONGS BY THE LAKE: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the sky the sun is falling
Last Line: Gleams the mirrored evening star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We bore him through the golden land
Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O night, send up the harvest moon
Last Line: Till I am old no more.
Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; God; Grief; Night; Old Age; Seasons; Youth; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: MORNING WATCH. COMING IN OF THE MERMAIDEN, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon is bleached as white as wool
Last Line: Promised them 'to-morrow.'
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Moon; Morning; Sorrow; Sadness


SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 13, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the house of my own father
Last Line: "I shall have to dry you, o ruddy tresses, / in the longing of my grief"
Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians


SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 7, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "whither shall I, the fair maiden, flee from sorrow?"
Last Line: "I have driven, I have driven, the maiden into the damp earth"
Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians


SONGS OUT OF SORROW: MASTERY, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not have a god come in
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONGS OUT OF SORROW: SPIRIT'S HOUSE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From naked stones of agony
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


SONGS OUT OF SORROW: WISDOM, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I have ceased to break my wings
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 14. LAST LINES, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could only go back and find you there
Last Line: "never, oh never more!"
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 10, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, harry, what ails you, why look you so sad?
Last Line: For one it relieves, and it strengthens the other.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Thought; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Thinking


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 24, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well! I will never more complain
Last Line: Without the least regret.
Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 4, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain
Last Line: We've paid already with our eyes.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


SONNET, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy muse, that nothing pleasest me
Last Line: Till tears and words are spent for evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET TO G. H. B., by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You comfort me as one that, knowing fate
Last Line: Some demon works unseen, and saps the pile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Beauty; Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Fate; Grief; Love; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET TO JULIET: WHO WOULD COMFORT HIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not ask your pity, dear. Your zeal
Subject(s): Pity; Grief; Comfort; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET TO MANON: ON FALLING ILL THROUGH GRIEF, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truce to thee, soul! I have a debt to pay
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET TO THE CURLEW, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soothed by the murmurs on the sea-beat shore
Last Line: And seem the symbol of my present woe.
Subject(s): Birds; Curlews; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad songstress of the night, no more I hear
Last Line: No more responsive to the lay of love.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Nightingales; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid
Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love.
Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns
Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind!
Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SONNET: 15. WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND NEAR LICHFIELD, by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The evening shines in may's luxuriant pride
Last Line: Poetic minds to life, with all her ills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: 18, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though I myself be bridled of my mind
Last Line: Whereby his absence turneth him to sorrow.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 27
Subject(s): Grief; Honor; Love; Time; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way
Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest!
Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


SONNET: 2, 33, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One still dark night, I sat alone and wrote
Last Line: And left me listening to the sinking sound.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement


SONNET: 3, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou, whose stern command and precepts pure
Last Line: Remembering the sorrows of mankind.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim
Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by.
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: COLD COMFORT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no comfort underneath the sun
Subject(s): Transience; Life; Grief; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not true the dead unhonoured were
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: ONE MORE BRUISED HEART, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One more bruised heart laid bare! One victim more!
Last Line: I cannot cure; I may in part express.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: POOR LISA, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor lisa! Oft her folly has been sung
Last Line: To tell of lisa's weeping afterward.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: SMALL GRIEFS AND GREAT, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How oft by trivial griefs our spirits tossed
Last Line: A dreary watcher on a blasted height!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: THE AFTER-GLOW, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a solemn evening, golden clear
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Evening; Love; Grief; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: THE DOUBLE RAINBOW, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the passions and desires of man
Last Line: Soft with remembered grief and happiness.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Rainbows; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SONNET: TO ONE UNFORGOTTEN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are not false perhaps, as lovers say
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNET: WRITTEN IN DISTRESS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sometimes sit in darkness. I long while
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 25, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A heavy heart, beloved, have I borne
Last Line: Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 30, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see thine image through my tears tonight
Last Line: As now these tears come -- falling hot and real?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 5, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly
Last Line: The hair beneath. Stand farther off then! Go.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 12. JOHN MARSTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bitterness of death and bitterer scorn
Last Line: It keeps this noble heart of hatred whole.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 16. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men
Last Line: Clothed round with song forever as with fire.
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131, by PETRARCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, so all things now do hold their peace
Last Line: To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Variant Title(s): "a Complaint By Night Of The Lover Not Beloved;night;a Night Piece;""alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace"";
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness
Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes"";
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit among green shady valleys oft
Last Line: What time the trees weep o'er me honeydew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I seek among the living, and I seek
Last Line: Weep for a little ere we go & play.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun
Last Line: And I shall sorrow that I must forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


SONOMA FIRE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Large moon the deep orange of embers.
Last Line: The griefs of others—beautiful, at a distance
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Count each affliction, whether light or grave
Last Line: Great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end.
Variant Title(s): Affliction
Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shape can I build of rhythm or melody
Last Line: As the night, eternal and changeless, folds it about forever.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does the thin grey strand
Last Line: I watched them float up the dark chimney.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by MARCELLE CHANCELLOR LEATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: This, then is sorrow. Many times before
Last Line: Or to lie deep within her arms -- how sweet.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strength and life have fled afar
Last Line: Eased my heart of tears.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by LAETITIA (VAN LEWEN) PILKINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While sunk in deepest solitude and woe
Last Line: And lay me down in everlasting peace.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wrack is lapping in the pools, the sea's lip feels the sand
Last Line: Or with dull thunders plunge from shore to shore.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Prayer; Salvation; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Ocean


SORROW, by JOHANN SIGURJONSSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woe, woe, unto the fallen city!
Last Line: And bears new life, new sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow, on wing through the world forever
Last Line: Sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Roundels; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


SORROW AND FLOWERS; A MEMORIAL WREATH TO C. F., by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A garland for a grave! Fair flowers that bloom
Last Line: Than flash in royal diadems.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW AND JOY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow and joy, two sisters coy
Last Line: And not too much o' t'other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SORROW AND NO SORROW, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We eat through tubes of time
Last Line: On its indifferent tongue.
Subject(s): Grief; Hunger; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW AND SONG, by JAMES HEDDERWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not over poet's wrong; / mourn not his mischances
Last Line: And of gentle fancies.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


SORROW FOR THE DEAD, by LEONIDUS S. HUFFMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Other sorrows we try to conceal
Last Line: With never a lingering sorrow?
Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


SORROW IN SPRING, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow knocked at my door
Last Line: She smiles! And she rises to go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW SHALL MAKE US KIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cark of care has bitten in
Last Line: -- sorrow hath made us kin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


SORROW SINGERS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear their viol-voices ringing
Last Line: Through a mist of falling tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the eyes of the children
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW WITHOUT CONSOLATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, wherefore shouldst thou try
Last Line: Thou'dst rather bid them weep, and seek their comfort so.
Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW'S SHADOW, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some days, when I am dressed in shimmer-stuff
Last Line: And take my hand, nor let me dance away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW'S USES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The uses of sorrow I comprehend
Last Line: How sorrow ever would be our friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROW, MY SORROW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow, my sorrow, I thought that you would be
Last Line: Beyond yourself you must abide with me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROWES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrowes our portion are: ere hence we goe
Last Line: Crosses we must have; or, hereafter woe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROWS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sister sorrow! Sit beside me
Last Line: The tide of ill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROWS AND JOYS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise
Last Line: And warned by yearning sympathies.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


SORROWS AND PLEASURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an awful thing how we forget
Last Line: That draw all life together.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SORROWS SUCCEED, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When one is past, another care we have
Last Line: Thus woe succeeds a woe; as wave a wave.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 1. TO OUR LADY OF THE SEVEN SORROWS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady of the seven sorrows which are love
Last Line: You carry the seven sorrows of the earth.
Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


SOUVENIR, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep, but with no bitterness I weep
Last Line: My soul to god shall bear.
Subject(s): Death; Gethsemane; Grief; Nature; Souvenirs; Tears; Time; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you
Last Line: With thinking of your woe!
Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails


SPECTRES THAT GRIEVE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not death that harrows us,' they lipped
Last Line: Until the new-year's dawn strode up the air.
Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Sorrow; Sadness


SPEED THE PARTING -, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall not sprinkle with dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Transcience; Death; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SPEEDWELLS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I came to lay my sorrow in the wood
Last Line: I had not strength to name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Margaret, are you grieving
Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for.
Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall
Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement


SPRING ON THE WOODLAND PATH, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So long a winter such an arctic night
Last Line: With the old hearts in this forgotten way?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Relationships; Spring; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness


STANZAS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me
Last Line: To go and rest with thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Grief; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The


STANZAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away, away, ye notes of woe
Last Line: That scatter'd gladness o'er his path.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Sorrow


STATEMENT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Durable is flesh when young
Last Line: Discourse on all it would not tell.
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Grief; Cadavers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


STILLBIRTH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a platform, I heard someone call out your name:
Subject(s): Grief; Stillbirth; Sorrow; Sadness; Death - Childbirth


STOLEN OR STRAYED, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What has become of the maidens fair
Last Line: Toast is burned and the steak is charred, and tears are glimmering on my cheek.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SUBMISSION, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sparrow sits and sings, and sings
Last Line: And clasp god's hand, who wrought it all.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When woman is in rags, and poor
Last Line: "to that small voice that crieth—""stop her!"
Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Hunger; Poverty; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


SUNBATHING, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My neighbor's new store-bought dog yaps again
Subject(s): Dogs; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SUPPOSE, by ZILLA VOLLMER TIETGEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I ask you dear, if I should die
Last Line: My tears through life would never dry.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


SURRENDER, by OLIVE W. BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the rain in my garden
Last Line: Peace in my heart again.
Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness


SUSPIRIUM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life of my soule, bright lord of love
Last Line: To thee ye easier shall I swimm.
Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Love; Soul; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness


SWEET BLOOMS AT DUSK, by JAMES H. DEVLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oft wet with tears on haloed ground
Last Line: Forgotten soon and death its goal.
Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SWEPT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we say I
Last Line: Swept away to / gone
Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


SYLVIA, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across a space peopled with stars I am
Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


TABULA SECUNDA IN NAUFRAGIO, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poore heart, what is this poorer world to thee?
Last Line: Unlesse omnipotencie can be crost.
Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


TALKING TO GRIEF, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, grief, I should not treat you
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TALKNG AMONG OURSELVES, by CHARLIE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the rental cottage it comes to me,
Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Divorce; Grief; Half-brothers; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


TAXI AFTER AN EVENING SHOWER, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This man saying no no
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears, ere thy death, for many a one I shed
Last Line: (r. A. Nicholson)
Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Tears; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god, bless god, all ye who suffer not
Last Line: And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by JOHN DOWLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep you no more, sad fountains
Last Line: Sleeping.
Variant Title(s): Lute Song Set By John Dowland (6);sleep;a Song For Music
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by PAUL H. OEHSER    Poem Text                    
First Line: No eye-tears ever drown our deepest woe
Last Line: While heart-tears gnaw their human prey piece-meal.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I consider life and its few years -
Last Line: Homer his sight, david his little lad !
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears born of wild emotion
Last Line: And all is stainless gold!
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I have seen you weep, I hear the drum
Last Line: And we take hands and leap into the dark.
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tears! Tears! Tears! / in the night, in solitude, tears
Last Line: Of tears! Tears! Tears!
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS ARE BUT SPINDRIFT, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When little leaves are leaning to the light
Last Line: Tears are but spindrift in the face of this.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: My heart is so full if pain
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Love – Absence Of; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness


TEMPORARY JOB, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


THAT THIS, by SUSAN HOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day is a type when visible
Last Line: Age or century for a day is
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE 'CLOSED-INS', by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Doomed to be 'compassed by four walls
Last Line: Hell has no part in this.
Subject(s): Conformity; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE AFFIANCED ONES, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou weep'st, and on me look'st, believing
Last Line: Dear corpse, for ever fare thee well!
Subject(s): Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


THE AGE, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pale, and soul-sick woman with wan
Last Line: Two things alone they lack, peace and content.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE AMPHORA, by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a gay jar upon his shoulder
Last Line: Its bitterness upon my breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor)
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the beautiful angel
Last Line: And death, thy friend, will give them all to thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To weary hearts, to mourning homes
Last Line: "the dear lord ordereth all things well!"
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said
Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me."
Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE ASH POOL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wet wind sobs o'er the sodden leas
Last Line: A curse hangs over the great ash pool
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness


THE AWAKENING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet
Last Line: The quiet land of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


THE AWAKENING (1), by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once she woke to fairyland
Last Line: Sleep so like to death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BAD SEASON MAKES THE POET SAD, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dull to my selfe, and almost dead to these
Last Line: Knock at a starre with my exalted head.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BALLAD OF THE HOPELESS MAN, by HENRI MURGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who knocks for entrance at this hour?'
Last Line: "for—so—one friend shall mourn my fate!"
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


THE BANKS O' DOON, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye flowery banks and braes o' bonnie doon
Last Line: But ah! He left the thorn wi' me.
Variant Title(s): Bonie Doon
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE BARD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It can not be, the baffled heart, in vain
Last Line: And ye, charmed with the voice, gave but a stone instead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BASTARD, SELECTION, by RICHARD SAVAGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran
Last Line: The raptures languish, and the numbers groan.
Subject(s): Grief; Muses; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THE BEAUTIFUL NAMES, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Francis, you realize, from loving ile-de-france, how a country or a
Last Line: The road for mortcerf of fair name.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BIRD OF SADNESS, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little black bird flies over the world
Last Line: And again it flies fluting over the world.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BLEST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The vision came, all grey and cold
Last Line: And the dew on its skin was a tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me
Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin.
Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


THE BLOODY FIELD OF WHEOGO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon rides high in a starry sky
Last Line: So we'll take the boy instead!'
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;fields;grief;hunting; Pastures;meadows;leas;sorrow;sadness;hunters


THE BLUE BIRD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A blue-bird built his nest
Last Line: My name is grief.
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BRAES O' GLENIFFER, by ROBERT TANNAHILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes o' gleniffer
Last Line: The dark days o' winter were summer to me!
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BROKEN HEART, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He has gone to the land where the dead are still
Last Line: And he sleeps with the dead for ever.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BROOK: AUTUMN, by LAURA ABELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Scarlet dogwood berries bring
Last Line: In the pageant everywhere.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BURTHEN OF THE TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tide was dark and heavy with the burden that it bore
Last Line: For more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


THE CAGED EAGLE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: One thrilling sweep from out the fastness
Last Line: And walked back to his cage.
Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Wings; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts


THE CALL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The unforgotten voices call at twilight
Last Line: They will not give me peace at dawn and twilight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ireland; Loss; Memory; Voices; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish


THE CALL OF SORROW, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beloved! In thine adversity there is
Last Line: Oh! Why does thy bleeding compact cover all?
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


THE CATTLE THIEF, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: They were coming across the prairie
Last Line: And blame, if you dare, the hunger that drove him to be a thief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Native Americans - Wars; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sick of life and all the world
Last Line: For god shall reign and god is love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills
Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CHRIST-SWORD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The while my mad brain whirled around
Last Line: With terrible yet tender breath.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CHRISTIAN'S CONFIDENCE, by CHARLES H. MCLEAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sought him and found him
Last Line: Flooded my soul.
Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CIRCLE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My grief comes back after an interval
Last Line: And feel the weight of my old sorrow's chain.
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Grief; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CLAIM, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grief sate upon a rock and sighed one day
Last Line: And eke my life out with the breath she sigheth.'
Subject(s): Grief; Joy; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CLOSED DOOR, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never crossed your threshold with a grief
Last Line: Whereby I pass and may not enter in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE COMPLAINT OF LISA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no woman living that draws breath
Last Line: Ere day be done, to seek the sunflower.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sun; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CONGREGATION, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ghosts of night's long hours depart
Last Line: To dissipate great sorrows.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CONSOLER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time comes to grief as sleep to weariness
Last Line: At twilight, or when april boughs are spread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a gathering in the village, that has never been outdone
Last Line: Is entitled to a furlough for his brain and for his heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For aught that ever I could read
Last Line: So quick bright things come to confusion.
Variant Title(s): Reading
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CROWDS CHEERED AS GLOOM GALLOPED AWAY, by MATTHEA HARVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Larger horses’ faces. Gloom, #341, with those big black eyes, was almost sure to win
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CROWNING OF THE KING, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now within its narrow hall
Last Line: By that chrism of tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CRY ETERNAL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last eve and through the night I heard a cry
Last Line: What woman's heart can bear it through the night?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CUP, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unable to quell a sudden urge for neatness,
Subject(s): Cups; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE CUP OF DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She bends her beauteous head to taste thy draught
Last Line: Thus grief that is, makes welcome death to come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Paintings And Painters; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DARK OF THE MOON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Diana's crescent ship, / by silver chain and lock
Last Line: While hermes has his tryst.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DAUGHTER, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, mournful lute! Dear echo of my woe!
Last Line: Pausing forgetful as he pass'd along.
Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M.
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DAY YOU WERE LEAVING, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lock stuck on the attic door
Last Line: And the night you were leaving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I rambled in a wood
Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DEAD PUSSY CAT [OR KITTEN], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone
Last Line: And forget all de kicks of de town
Subject(s): Animal Rights;animals;cats;cold;death;grief; "animal Abuse;vivisection;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


THE DEATH OF MORGAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Throughout australian history no tongue or pen can tell
Last Line: "remember this, how true it is, bushranging hath no charms!"
Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hunting;murder; Sorrow;sadness;hunters


THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend
Last Line: From the depths of the sea
Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


THE DEATH OF ROLAND, by LOUIS XAVIER DE RICARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was young -- ah, france was paradise
Last Line: But, sooth, this race of aquitaine is worse!
Subject(s): Death; France; Grief; Hugh Capet (938-996); Roland; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DEATH OF SIR LAUNCELOT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At canterbury seven years a monk
Last Line: Like evening's purple with the setting sun.
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Funerals; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE DEATH-DIRGE FOR CATHAL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the wild hills I am hearing a voice, o cathal!
Last Line: O where is cathal mac art, that has tears to water my stillness?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Longing; Swords; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DEATH-SONG OF TURANN, by JOHN TODHUNTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low lie your heads this day
Last Line: And with it I lie low!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DEPARTED FRIEND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though he that ever kind and true
Last Line: Waits on a stile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): Verses Written In 1872;resurgence
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Religion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


THE DIAMOND POINT, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Use the diamond point of grief
Last Line: Incise a clear hibiscus in the windowpane.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DIRGE OF 'CLAN SIUBHAIL' (THE WANDERING FOLK), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road
Last Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Fatigue


THE DIRTY OLD MAN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dirty old house lived a dirty old man
Last Line: To that dirty old house and that dirty old man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DOUBLE CROWNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lavish roses carpeted the ways for him
Last Line: The shouting of the people -- the silence of the king!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DREAM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our life is two-fold: sleep hath its own world
Last Line: To end in madness -- both in misery
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Sleep
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke to find my pillow wet
Last Line: Was I thy captive all o'erthrown?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay
Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DRUM-MAJOR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old drum-major it is that we see
Last Line: The old man is your father!
Subject(s): Drums; Grief; Musical Instruments; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DRUNKEN SONG, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O man, what seem
Last Line: "would have deep, deep eternity!"
Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE DYING MAN TO HIS BETROTHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One word - 'tis all I ask of thee
Last Line: O christ, who art the gate of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE EASTERN GATE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I went out at the eastern gate
Last Line: One cannot put things off
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief; Sorrow;sadness


THE EEGRASS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With stricken heart, and melting mood
Last Line: But this bright-bladed eegrass.
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


THE EMPTY CUP, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly away, bark
Last Line: Mine emptiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE END OF AODH-OF-THE-SONGS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swift years slip and slide adown the steep
Last Line: Pain that alone survives, gaunt hound of the shadowy years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


THE END OF LAUGHTER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O never laugh again!
Last Line: Ours but to pray.
Subject(s): Grief; Laughter; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FADED FACE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How was this I did not see
Last Line: Sorrow-wrung!
Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FAIR HANDS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Showing the whiteness of flesh faint and fair
Last Line: By sordid toil, by barren tasks unhurt.
Subject(s): Grief; Hands; Kisses; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FAIRY OF THE DELL, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The house lay snug as a robin's nest
Last Line: "nor sighed for her lad that was lost, ""ah me!"
Variant Title(s): Selfish Sorrow
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady she sate in her bower alone
Last Line: Ere that steed and its rider return again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FAN BLUES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They say that the winter is gentle and mild
Last Line: Oh, misery!
Subject(s): Baseball; Grief; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness


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 FEAR OF MADNESS; FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is something which I dread
Last Line: (final poem)
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Insanity; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness; Illness


THE FEAST, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lovers loitered on the deck talking
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FEAST OF ST. JOHN, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man goes twanging a mandoline down in the valley
Last Line: Pales with the sick renewal of a sorrow.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far away in the land of morning
Last Line: Like us: it is just the same.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FESTIVAL OF MEMORY, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Doth rapture hold a feast
Last Line: Thy sacrament and shrine.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FIRST BUD O' THE YEAR, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There whispered in my ear
Last Line: That shall the old loss mend.
Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FIRST CIRCLE, by KOFI AWOONOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The flat end of sorrow here
Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George
Subject(s): Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts


THE FIRST SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise! This day shall shine
Last Line: Thy soul to-day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): God; Grief; Soul; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FORSAKEN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead are in their silent graves
Last Line: In sorrow that I send to thee!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you go over desert and mountain
Last Line: May he find a place for the tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FOUR BRIDGES, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love this grey old church, the low, long nave
Last Line: Nor sleep so sweet: -- the word was -- eglantine.
Subject(s): Churches; God; Grief; Landscape; Love; Soul; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness


THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a funny little fellow
Last Line: "little angel he will make!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Laughter; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin
Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance
Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord.
Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GOLDEN DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sleeps; her head is pillowed where
Last Line: Break not her golden vision's spell!
Subject(s): Grief;sleep;youth; Sorrow;sadness


THE GOLDFINCHES, by RICHARD JAGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, whose groves protect the feather'd quires
Last Line: And there in silent sadness inly mourned.
Subject(s): Goldfinches; Grief; Shenstone, William (1714-1763); Sorrow; Sadness


THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given
Last Line: His life from hers he drew.
Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary


THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 5. THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth from the city, with the load
Last Line: And life is yet our fate!
Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now grave to rose complaineth
Last Line: "I fledge with angel's wing."
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grave said: 'rose, so bright of hue
Last Line: "god's paradise to fill."
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD; A DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, when should we visit the graves of the dead
Last Line: Like the clouds from heaven, away we pass!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Grief; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GRIEF OF A GIRL'S HEART, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you
Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me!
Variant Title(s): Donal Og
Subject(s): Grief;holidays;love;love - Loss Of;new Year; Sorrow;sadness


THE GRIEF OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "love, I am sick for thee, sick with an absolute grief"
Last Line: "never again to mock at love, ah, never, never!"
Subject(s): Death;grief;hearts;love - Loss Of;peace; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


THE GRIEF OF OTHERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Once more I see the happy young
Last Line: To charm me with new power.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GRIEVING RING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When word of his death arrived
Last Line: For the rest of so many lives
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GROATSWORLD OF WIT: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deceiving world, that with alluring toys
Last Line: My time is loosely spent, and I undone.
Variant Title(s): A Palinode;a Death-bed Lament;miserrimus
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Regret; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: VERSES AGAINST ENTICING COURTEZANS, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What mean the poets in invective verse
Last Line: Till waste brings woe, and sorrow hastes despair.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


THE GROUND-ROBIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From a low birch-tree just outside my window
Last Line: Sing on, ground-robin, sing!
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; June; Love; New Hampshire; Robins; Summer; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HARDEST TIME OF ALL, by SARAH DOUDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are days of silent sorrow
Last Line: That he taught us how to wait.
Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HARP OF THE MINSTREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The harp of the minstrel has never a tone
Last Line: Can not waken the echoes that breathe it aright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Light; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted
Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more.
Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


THE HEART RECALCITRANT, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the heart grieve on
Last Line: Across its own oblivion?
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HEART-CRY, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She turned the page of wounds and death
Last Line: Rests to face life as fearlessly.
Subject(s): Grief; Women & War; World War I - Casualties; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HERMIT'S SPEECH TO QUEEN ELIZABETH AT THEOBALD'S, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sovereign lady, and most gracious queen
Last Line: Than any one of silver or of gold.
Subject(s): Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burleigh; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HOLLY THORNS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, love is the soul of christmas
Last Line: Where christmas is one of tears.
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Happiness; Holly; Love; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE HOLY TIDE, by FREDERICK TENNYSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The days are sad, it is the holy tide
Last Line: Till the lamp flickers, and the memory fails.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead
Last Line: The home-returning!
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 97. A SUPERSCRIPTION, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look in my face; my name is might-have-been
Last Line: Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Variant Title(s): The Nevermore;a Superscription
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HOUSE OF SORROWS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the white purity
Last Line: Where any blow were pity, to this it struck before!
Subject(s): Assassination; Elizabeth. Empress Of Austria (1837-98); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HOUSE WITH NOBODY IN IT, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever I walk to suffern along the erie track
Last Line: With a broken heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Sorrow; Sadness


THE HUGUENOT; 1686, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dry-lipped with terror, o'er the broken flints
Last Line: You're very good to say so.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE INCURABLE; A SONG, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One, amongst flowers, green leaves, and the cool grass
Last Line: Flowers, leaves, grass, cave, grove, wars, the air, nor spring.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An indian girl was sitting where
Last Line: The rustling of my footsteps near.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Grief; Squaws; Sorrow; Sadness


THE IRISH MOTHER AT HER CHILD'S GRAVE, by ELLEN FORRESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My very heart-strings, sure, will burst asunder
Last Line: Ochone, ochone!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE ISLAND OF DREAMS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis a close-shelter'd island-the island of dreams!
Last Line: Where hearts that are broken, again are made blest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE JOY IN SORROW, by CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSHEND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give me thy joy in sorrow, gracious lord
Last Line: That I may feel no touches save of thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE KING OF THE CROCODILES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, woman, why without your veil?
Last Line: And I will make a meal of thee.
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Courts & Courtiers; Crocodiles; Egypt; Grief; Mothers; Trust; Sorrow; Sadness


THE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR, by STUART MERRILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The falling snow, like grief for one just dead
Last Line: Ah, do you hear the knocking at the door?
Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose
Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale!
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind?
Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise
Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies.
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs


THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the last rose of summer
Last Line: This bleak world alone?
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LAST TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the last time we shall sit and see
Last Line: Because of the last time that's yet to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LAST WORDS OF ST. TELEMACHUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a sound of weeping; wherefore weep
Last Line: For ever blest!
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Praise; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LEADING OF SORROW, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through a twilight land, a moaning region
Last Line: With the eternal shining though his eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LEADY'S TOWER, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An' then we went along the gleades
Last Line: Built up the tower upon the knowl.'
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage; Memory; Monuments; Story-telling; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE LEGEND OF QU'APPELLE VALLEY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the one who loved her as my life
Last Line: Why white men named the valley the qu'appelle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Legends; Love; Travel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE LESSON OF GRIEF, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not ere the bitter herb we taste
Last Line: For not my own.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft in the stilly night
Last Line: Of other days around me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Scotch Air
Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Life Change Events; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LITTLE THINGS, by FRANCIS T. KIMBALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, how I have loved the little best things / of love
Last Line: And the soft swelling of your breasts against me when I quieted you to sleep.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LIVING DEAD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Battles have you and I to fight and we
Last Line: And only we know of the hell.
Subject(s): Death; Fights; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LONELY, by RENEE VIVIEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lonely who are lapped in winding sheets of moan
Last Line: Know that ecstatic joy of sorrow lived alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THE LONG AGO, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! A wonderful stream is the river of time
Last Line: May that greenwood of soul be in sight!
Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOST BIRD, by CAROLINA CORONADO DE PERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My bird has flown away
Last Line: My heart in utter sadness faints away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Perry, Horatio J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOST LAMB, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A shepherd laid upon his bed
Last Line: He trode serene life's onward way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOST MOMENTS OF A. DALMAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The solemn bell for me is tolling
Last Line: "dalmas, you must prepare to go"
Subject(s): Bells;capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;grief; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;sorrow;sadness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 36, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sad this morning
Last Line: As you passed my shoji
Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 40, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the wheel follows the hoof
Last Line: As you leave me in thr dawn
Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 50, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the park a crow awakes
Last Line: For the years that are gone
Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half in a dream
Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five
Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE MAID IN LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not where she be, and yet
Last Line: But only I sit here and moan.
Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure
Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness


THE MAIDEN'S SORROW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven long years has the desert rain
Last Line: I shall feel it no more again.
Subject(s): Death - Fathers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MAIN REGRET, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seen, too clear and historic within us, our sins of omission
Last Line: Back to a half-sloughed life cheered by the mere human tone.
Subject(s): Grief; Regret; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MAN AND THE CENTAUR; THE MAN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the mountain-heights thou goest
Last Line: The shadow of woe?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Centaurs; Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MANIAC, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet summer flowers were braided in her hair
Last Line: Remembrance beamed, and tears would slowly rise.
Subject(s): Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE MASK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a smiling face, she said
Last Line: Whom sadder can I say? She said.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MASK OF MIRTH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ho! This is mirth, fat-cheeked and laughing-eyed
Last Line: Ah, mirth, a truce; that grin may mask distress!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE MESSAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the house of the widow
Last Line: God touches his own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping
Last Line: Youth from guilt and crime.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Night; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


THE MINSTREL AT LINCLUDEN, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I stood by yon roofless tower
Last Line: I winna venture't in my rhymes.
Subject(s): Freedom; War; Death; Supernatural; Grief; Liberty; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MISSED SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dusk in my spacious garden
Last Line: Had vanished the sunset glow.
Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Grief; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MODERN FIRST LADY, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair
Last Line: And with true scorpion rage she stings herself to death.
Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MOON-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little lonely child am I
Last Line: For me but sighs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mermaids & Mermen; Moon; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MOOR'S SERENADE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To my sleeping dear zuleima's
Last Line: And blood from the heart's wounds flowing.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Moors (people); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MOTHER, by LYDIA GIBSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Never again to feel that little kiss
Last Line: Oh — little hands . . . That in the dust have lain!
Subject(s): Children; Death; Faith; God; Grief; Mothers; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MOTHER'S MISTAKE, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heard you that piercing shriek -- the throe
Last Line: Outgushing tears, and gasping sobs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Errors; Fear; Grief; Kisses; Mothers; Tears; Mistakes; Fallacies; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MOURNER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When all your bitter grief is gone
Last Line: You follow her, and stand reproved.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE MOURNING MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What woe is thine, pale mother? - say
Last Line: To moloch offered up.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Temperance; Temptation; Youth; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sorrow; Sadness; Prohibition


THE MOURNING-GARMENT: HEXAMETRA ROSAMUNDAE AE IN DOLOREM AMISSI ALEXIS, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tempe, the grove where dark hecate doth keep
Last Line: Yet rosamond did die for love, false-hearted alexis!
Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE MUSES' COMFORTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Meseems I scarce could live, but for the muse
Last Line: On which high minds may feed and never tire.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Muses; Sisters; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NAIADS' MUSIC, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, ye sorrowful, and steep
Last Line: Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NATIVE LAND, by FRANCISCO DE ALDANA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clear fount of light! My native land on high
Last Line: That, whither love aspires, there shall my dwelling be.
Variant Title(s): My Native Land
Subject(s): Exiles; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NEST, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day the birds were lifted from my shoulders
Last Line: It killed me — and almost cost me a life...
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Life; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NEW BOY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He never knew before how heavenly the places
Last Line: He strangles with his sobs till the grey day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Grief; Loss; Orphans; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings


THE NEW MAGDALENE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: She turns her with sick heart
Last Line: Can work her no more harm.
Subject(s): Grief; Hair; Hearts; Tears; Worship; Sorrow; Sadness


THE NIGHT BIRD, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down where the cedars are bending
Last Line: "and sorrow is not eternal."
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THE NIGHT OUR DARLING DIED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago
Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE NOBLEST SERVICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If all his mourning friends
Last Line: He leads us, answering glory's highest call.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For two days I've been crying
Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty.
Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE NUN AND THE HARP, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What memory fired her pallid face
Last Line: "and I will pledge with mine!"
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Nuns; Sorrow; Sadness


THE OFFER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I narrow eyes and double night
Last Line: Will they supply the tears?
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by E. S. EMERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old bush-whacker bowed his head
Last Line: "orstralier is comin' to."
Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky
Subject(s): Grief; Idleness; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flitting shadow follows
Last Line: Back to her breast again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The
Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails


THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions
Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could whisper you all I know
Last Line: "that's what you'd say."
Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE OLD GHOST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the water an old ghost strode
Last Line: At his yearning desire and agony.
Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Grief; Longing; Sea; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


THE OLD MAID'S PETITION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old maid
Last Line: Whose nights in unavailing tears are spent!
Subject(s): Death;grief;love;women; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness;


THE ONE GRIEF, by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One grief there is, the helpmeet of my heart
Last Line: From desolate whirlings of the desert sand.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE OUTCAST, by MARY LOUISE RITTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bleak winds of the winter, sobbing and moaning
Last Line: I will knock at the gate of his home in the sky!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PAIN OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the earth grow grey with grief
Last Line: In our hearts the tears are shed.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; World; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PALM-TREE AND THE PINE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath an indian palm a girl
Last Line: Renew their early vows.
Variant Title(s): Shadows: 3
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PARADOX, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the mother of sorrows
Last Line: Down where the dream woman dwells.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PATH OF TEARS: 3. THE MENACE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, o love, shall ruthless pride avail you
Last Line: As you lie spent and broken at my feet!
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PATH OF TEARS: 6. SUPPLICATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, it were not such deep unmeasured wrong
Last Line: A gift of tears to save my stricken soul!
Subject(s): Compassion; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PATH OF TEARS: 7. THE SLAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, if at dawn some passer-by should say
Last Line: "with the swift spear of grief."
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh?
Last Line: I pause—and ponder on the days to come.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PEASANT'S APOLOGY, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down near the earth
Last Line: Bitterness and blackness from the earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Grief; Peasantry; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PINES OF MONTEREY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O shadow in a maiden's eye
Last Line: Through the pines of monterey.
Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PITCHER, by YUAN CHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamt I climbed to a high, high plain
Last Line: Streamed from my eyes and fell on the collar of my dress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PLACE OF REST, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not happy, though my smiles betoken
Last Line: "with triumph towering in thy shattered shield!"
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PLAINT HUMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Season of snows, and season of
Last Line: And much too much of the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Brothers; Flowers; Grief; Seasons; Snow; Half-brothers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 138, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man lives less than a hundred years
Last Line: He still won't stop till they hit bottom
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 148, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once we're born we're confused
Last Line: This is why I grieve
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Birth; Chaos; Chinese Literature; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 172, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm poor alas and I'm sick
Last Line: All these cares wear a man down
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 178, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When birds sang this spring
Last Line: Recalling the capital hurts
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 249, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why am I so troubled
Last Line: Entrust myself to the hills for good
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 27, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A man who lives on rose-colored clouds
Last Line: He forgets a whole lifetime of sorrow
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forgetfulness; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 296, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As humans we have needs
Last Line: The heartbreak never ends
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 34, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where white clouds form high rugged crags
Last Line: How else could they pierce my walls
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fish & Fishing; Grief; Singing & Singers; Anglers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 36, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What makes a young man grieve
Last Line: These words pain an old man
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 37, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People say cares never depart
Last Line: Is someone plagued by old cares
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 46, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beautiful lady lu
Last Line: She couldn't avoid ending up in the hills
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I reached cold mountain
Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 70, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hermit's heart is heavy
Last Line: The cinnamon trees detain him
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Hermits; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 74, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What's this crying for
Last Line: The six paths don't excite me
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POET, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, sing - poet, sing!
Last Line: Though it pierce, shall give thee rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POET, by HENRY A. WRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: He begged a bit of gladness from the skies
Last Line: And loosed his tears upon a flood of song.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POET'S JOURNAL: EXORCISM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O tongues of the past, be still!
Last Line: With the phantom of the old!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Exorcism; Graves; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POET'S JOURNAL: MARAH, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waters of my life were sweet
Last Line: But, weeping, turn my head away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE POET'S TEAR, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A tear welled up from a poet heart
Last Line: Who knows? Who knows?
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POET'S TRUST IN HIS SORROW, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god! How sad a doom is mine
Last Line: My last great blessing!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POINT OF VIEW, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You think it noblest to refrain
Last Line: The bridegroom's pearls?
Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POOR, by EMILE VERHAEREN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are poor souls
Last Line: Wherever men are born.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grief; Tears; Graveyards; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PORTRAIT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is her picture as she was
Last Line: About the holy sepulchre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POSTERN GATE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I chose me a lovely garden
Last Line: "is gilding the postern gate."
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Life; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PRAYER OF THE SORROWING, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: God! Hear my prayer!
Last Line: Amen! My heart repeats, amen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PRAYER WAY, by R. ANNA MORRIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: My friend, I know you are not near
Last Line: Until I kneel and for you pray.
Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PRECEPT OF SILENCE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know you: solitary griefs
Last Line: Save to one man, and unto god.
Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PREFACE TO DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS, by ANNE COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Being through weakness to the house confin'd
Last Line: Will his and all their works for him defend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An
Subject(s): Activity; Evil; Grief; Reason; Exercise; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE PRINCESS, by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The princess sat alone in her maiden bower
Last Line: "now the sun has gone down."
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PROPHECY: 1. TO A LADY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let me gaze awhile on that marble brow
Last Line: And think on my last sad prophecy.
Subject(s): Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PROPHECY: 3. TO ANOTHER LADY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wilt thou rashly unveil the dark volume of fate?
Last Line: I will veil the page, maiden, in pity to thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sorrow; Sadness


THE QUEEN'S LAST RIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The queen is taking a drive today
Last Line: The queen in silence is driving by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE QUIET PILGRIM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When on my soul in nakedness
Last Line: Lord, I go softly all my years!
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE REFLECTION, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the eve my mother died
Last Line: With lines of sorrow drawn!
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won
Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free
Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE RETURN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Helen softly stole to me just now
Last Line: Helen died a year ago to-day.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Presence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


THE RETURN: AN ELEGY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The east wind finds the gap bringing rain
Subject(s): Grief; Death; Pine Trees; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The


THE RIVER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat
Last Line: And dead to hopes of future joy.
Subject(s): Grief; Rivers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE ROAD TO CABINTEELY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the lonely road, the road to cabinteely!
Last Line: Though my poor heart should break.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Roads; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails


THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever love the lily pale
Last Line: Of the closing gates of hell.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Magic; Story-telling; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow
Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue


THE SAD SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a man whom sorrow named his friend
Last Line: Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


THE SADDEST SIGHT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As one that leadeth a blind man
Last Line: Unorphaned orphanage.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SADNESS OF PARENTS, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sadness of fruit is like the sadness
Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SADNESS OF PUPPIES, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up there, squirrels, teasing and clacking
Subject(s): Grief; Dogs; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief
Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner.
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue


THE SAME OLD STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The same old story told again
Last Line: "till ""time shall be no more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON BLUES, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can kill you
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SEA-PLANE, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A tiny speck in the evening sky
Last Line: Takes from the mother's arms their child.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE SECRET, by GREGOIRE LE ROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If thou wouldst speak unto my grief, be wary
Last Line: Is shape and sound of beauteous things gone by.
Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SECRET DEWS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go
Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SHADOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a dell that's sunny enough for laughing joy
Last Line: In silence stumbling through the glade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SHADOW OF SILENCE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind no longer sings to me
Last Line: Is the one grief I know.
Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SHADOW ROSE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A noisette on my garden path
Last Line: To leave your shadow lingering there?
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SHIPS OF GRIEF, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On seas where every pilot fails
Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea.
Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War


THE SHRUBBERY, WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy shades! To me unblest!
Last Line: And those of sorrows yet to come.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SILENT TOWN, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A town lies in the valley
Last Line: Begin a gentle hymn of praise.
Subject(s): Grief; Towns; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE SINGER, by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She sang with the voice of an angel
Last Line: "I sing for him alone."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE SINGER IN THE WOODS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where moongrey-thistled dunes divide the woods from the sea
Last Line: In the silence I hear my heart sobbing its old woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Lament; Singing & Singers; Strangers; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SISTER OF MERCY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has shone, as glows dawn's fairest blush
Last Line: Fond memory will cherish.
Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THE SIX SORROWS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There are six sorrows in my heart
Last Line: Six sorrows all my own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 34, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: He takes his leave,-and all her sun of life
Last Line: Love's plaint alone the brooding silence grieves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 62, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, fortunate that leagues of foam divide
Last Line: Aloof, afar, his sentinel watch he kept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 86, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Day after day went by, and still he fed
Last Line: Am I not shamed—thus long to be denied?'
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 93, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight was she gather'd to that gentle breast
Last Line: Neath veiling lids her own dull ache did screen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SOLDIER GENERATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the sons of disaster
Last Line: Will yield of our strivings, god.
Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Lies; Soldiers; Truth; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike
Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame!
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SONG OF PLUTO, by PHILIPPE QUINAULT    Poem Text                    
First Line: All men this path must tread
Last Line: The ship unto her port.
Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


THE SONG OF REPENTANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir ulrich rides in the forest so green
Last Line: "he'll repeat it sentence by sentence."
Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence; Songs


THE SONG OF THE RAIN, by AUGUSTE GAUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have drunk of rains that drench
Last Line: They weep aloud.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SORROW OF FINDEBAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you sorrow, child? There is loud cheer
Last Line: "and that is why it pines and will not break."
Subject(s): Banshees; Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SORROWFUL MASQUERADE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as to a music, stately and sad
Last Line: She needs must cover up her face and weep.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SORROWS OF SUNDAY; AN ELEGY, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Susan, the constant slave to mop and broom
Last Line: And ride themselves an airing with the devil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Slavery; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Sunday; Serfs


THE SORROWS OF THE BLIND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity the sorrows of the poor blind
Last Line: And remember us at the judgment day.
Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE SOUL'S CRY (THE HIGHER ANTHROPOMORPHISM), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, let thy little child
Last Line: "to land, by the hushed wondering sea!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Soul; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SOUTH-WEST WIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stood by the idle weir
Last Line: Now all is still as death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SOW OF FEELING, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Malignant planets! Do ye still combine
Last Line: Life, to be numbered 'mongst the feeling swine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement


THE SPANISH WAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all young men and maidens of high and low degree
Last Line: Their precious lives to venture all for the queen of spain
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;grief;spanish-american War (1898); Sorrow;sadness


THE SPINNER, by MARY AINGE DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The spinner twisted her slender thread
Last Line: "in a winding-sheet!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Spinning; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SPIRIT OF THE GAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With the glamour of the gay
Last Line: Overhung with starry tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Life; Self-reliance; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SPIRITUAL BODY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a heavenly home
Last Line: Upon my naked and unsheltered soul!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology


THE STATUE OF THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is seated by the river
Last Line: Where all rivers wend their way.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Soul; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


THE STORY OF PRINCE AGIB, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strike the concertina's melancholy string!
Last Line: When a yesterday has faded from its page.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Subject(s): Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness


THE STRANGER, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I often wonder with what blood doth beat
Last Line: Who veils the glory of his land and blood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Grief; Strangers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE STRAYED REVELLER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faster, faster / o circe, goddess
Last Line: Sweep through my soul!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly
Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise!
Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness


THE STREETS OF FORBES, by JOHN MCGUIRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come all you lachlan men
Last Line: To show the prize they had!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Hero-worship; Heroism; Murder; Sorrow; Sadness; Heroes; Heroines


THE STRING DIAMOND, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An apricot blossom opens to five petals
Last Line: Sensing in slow seconds the tilt of the milky way.
Subject(s): Grief; Metamorphosis; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SUICIDE, by JOHN WIENERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes I put her away.
Subject(s): Suicide; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SUMMER-TIME THAT WAS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The swallow is not come yet
Last Line: And the summer-time that was.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Summer; Transience; Grief; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and
Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.]
Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology


THE SUNDERLAND CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the town of sunderland, and in the year of 1883
Last Line: To aid and comfort the bereaved parents in their grief.
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Despair; Grief; Pity; Philanthropy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SUNDIAL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain
Last Line: A small gray spot, -- the record of a tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sundials; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SWAGMAN'S FAREWELL TO MATILDA, by JACY HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The swagman sat upon a log beside a waterhole
Last Line: "matilda's ghost!"" he gasped, and fled, a madman through the night."
Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SWANS' LAMENT FOR THE DESOLATION OF LIR, by JOHN TODHUNTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A lost dream to us now is our home
Last Line: A lost dream to us now is our home!
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SYMBOL OF MADNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll now begin to sing the song
Last Line: "above the reach of vulgarity."
Subject(s): Grief; Insanity; Nations; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


THE TEAR OF HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heaven's blue eye tender a tear-drop wept
Last Line: "my pearl, my pearl fore'er remain'"
Subject(s): Grief;heaven; Sorrow;sadness;paradise


THE TEARS OF PSSAMENITUS, by JOHN RUSKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say ye I wept? I do not know
Last Line: The tears of him—who will not weep again.
Subject(s): Csmbyses Ii, King Of Persia (d. 522 B.c); Grief; Psamtik Iii, King Of Egypt; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Psammenitus Iii


THE THATCH, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out alone in the winter rain
Last Line: In on to the upper chamber floors.
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Grief; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Straw; Sorrow; Sadness


THE THREE SAD SHEPPARDESSES, GOE TO A LITTLE TABLE, WHERE THEY SINGE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When once the presence of a friend is gone
Last Line: Your welcome, when wee owne him as our day.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE THREE SORROWS, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two blooms of the rose, one cypress spray
Last Line: His flower; thy soul shall ne'er decay.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TIDE OF SORROW, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the twilight-burnished hills I lie and long and gaze
Last Line: What voice for the world of men?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TIME OF WAITING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life is fleeting, joy is fleeting
Last Line: For meek patience, let us pray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Religion; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Theology


THE TRANSIT OF THE GODS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange that the self's continuum should outlast
Last Line: To dance my dust at last into the tomb.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TREES WILL UNDERSTAND, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How still a house can be on such a night!
Last Line: For they and I have lost our all, my dear!
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Houses; Seasons; Soul; Trees; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TRIBUTE OF HIS HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bowed, midst a universal grief
Last Line: Our common friend and fellow citizen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Flags; Grief; Home; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the christmas of the year
Last Line: At christmas in the baron's hall
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 1. TRAGEDY MARGAIDA AND TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet margarida, dreaming in her bower
Last Line: The hound's sleek head that on his knee did rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Tragedy; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations


THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 2. CRUEL END OF THE LOVERS' TALE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How quick breeds scandal. In some danksome place
Last Line: His weeping lady, kneeling there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Passion; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres


THE TURTLE AND SPARROW, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind an unfrequented glade
Last Line: And knaves and prudes are six times married.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Fables; Grief; Sparrows; Turtles; Dead, The; Allegories; Sorrow; Sadness; Tortoises


THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a long sad row the old gods come
Last Line: Lie scattered in the sand!
Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Mythology; Wind; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNANSWERING CORRESPONDENCES, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Intensification of compassion, extraordinary, incalculable
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNATTAINABLE, by HARRY ROMAINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles
Last Line: "for ""the girl we couldn't kiss."
Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Hearts; Longing; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNCHANGING, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNDYING, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by
Last Line: Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War


THE UNIVERSALITY OF GRIEF; DRAMATIC SKETCH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I grant you that our fate is terrible
Last Line: Wherein he rules hath murmurous caves of sleep.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNLEARNED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not admit her! I could not endure
Last Line: Who is unlearned in all but happiness!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE UNRETURNING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, knowing not eld, in thy youth all / divine
Last Line: But not from the dark come my darlings to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Mothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE UNVEILING, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In that spring week of sacred memories
Last Line: Unveils the crucified.
Subject(s): God; Grief; Mankind; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Theology


THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide
Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone.
Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


THE VIRGIN MARY TO CHRIST ON THE CROSS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mist hath dimmed that glorious face
Last Line: Let sorrow string my heavy lute.
Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary


THE VISITATION OF PEACE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I closed the book of verse where sorrow wept
Last Line: Rising see clear the everlasting land.
Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Grief; Keats, John (1795-1821); Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness


THE VOICE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the kindling glances
Last Line: Yet could not break it.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE VOWS OF SUNNY WEATHER, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not ours the vows of such as plight
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WAIF, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit in my luxurious chair
Last Line: And cries in agony to god!
Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Pain; Past; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


THE WAITHMAN'S WAIL, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart is sick! My heart is sick!
Last Line: In this my dying dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Grief; Hunting; Sorrow; Sadness; Hunters


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If sorrow have taught me anything
Last Line: For truth, these tears are true!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): France; Grief; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight past! Not a sound of aught
Last Line: For each pearl my eyes have wept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Disappointment; France; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


THE WARNING WAIL, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A minstrel old, in feudal hall
Last Line: Shut ye the flood-gates, never! Never!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Minstrels; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs


THE WATCHERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two women on the lone wet strand
Last Line: (and heaven on the long reach home.)
Subject(s): Sea; Grief; Ocean; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WATCHERS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She fell asleep among the flowers
Last Line: May they all meet in heaven. Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Angels; Crosses; Grief; Love; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WAVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children are we
Last Line: Sorrows and hopes of earth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Heaven; Sea; Waves; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Ocean


THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A youth would marry a maiden
Last Line: And so it was two hearts were broken.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another?
Last Line: Mother, my mother.
Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WEAVER, by EFFIE BRUCE HARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tired heart, now I shall weave all thy longings
Last Line: Blanket of grief, I create thee, alone.
Subject(s): Blankets; Death; Grief; Native Americans; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WEDDING, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, day of joy! The sound of pipe and flute with sweetly blending
Last Line: Of sweet-voiced instruments!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WEDGE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there were two of us
Last Line: Will only bruise.
Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WELL OF ALL-HEALING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a cure for sorrow in the well at ballylee
Last Line: While the heart of the earth is full.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures


THE WIDOW, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How dreary is winter to me
Last Line: My loss a sweet infant will mourn.
Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not lift him from the bracken
Last Line: Cry the coronach for thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow is my own yard
Last Line: And sink into the marsh near them.
Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it some shade from paradise
Last Line: What answer to thy passion?
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WIND OF SORROW, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire of love was burning, yet so low
Last Line: And fanned the fire of love to clearest flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WINDOW JUST OVER THE STREET, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit in my sorrow a-weary, alone
Last Line: When darkness is darkest, and sorrow most sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WITHERED ROSE, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, fading rose, a present to my fair
Last Line: With water of my tears, or with my blood.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Transience; Sorrow; Sadness; Impermanence


THE WOLD WALL, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, jeane, we vu'st did meet below
Last Line: The wall is wold, my grief is new.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Memory; Walls; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WOLF CALL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cry of the wolf in the forest brings me comfort
Last Line: And cry out my own loneliness.
Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Hunger; Solitude; Wilderness; Wolves; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


THE WOODSPURGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind flapped loose, the wind was still
Last Line: The woodspurge has a cup of three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Plants; Sorrow; Sadness; Planting; Planters


THE WORD OF THE WIND, by LOUISE DRISCOLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind that carries the sound of bells
Last Line: And one white word for peace!
Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Peace; War; Wind; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WORDS UNDER THE WORDS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother's hands recognize grapes
Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WORLD AND I, by NELLY M. HUTCHINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whether my heart be glad or no
Last Line: Nelly m. Hutchinson.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone
Last Line: Lost in the infinite.
Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone
Last Line: Lost in the infinite.
Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


THE WREATH, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A child through sunny meadows strolled
Last Line: Both fruit and flowers it bore!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE YEAR OUTGROWS THE SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who lends new zest, and interest to my days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Passion; Soul; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness


THE YEARS TO BE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cried to them in the twilight, in the shadowy places
Last Line: They are robed now in light, now in night -- but I have not seen their faces!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE YELLOW RAYS, by CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On summer sabbath eves when six draws near
Last Line: All night I hear them howl!
Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE ZEGRI LADY'S VIGIL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever sits the lady weeping
Last Line: Of the ladye weeping there.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THEIR SWEET SORROW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They meet to say farewell: their
Last Line: Sweet as the dew's lip to the rose's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Kisses; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


THERE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When trakl crossed over, the angels
Last Line: Carved on a stone cheek.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THERE'S A TIME TO BE JOLLY, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a time to be jolly, a time to repent
Last Line: It was best, after all, to have flirted with both.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


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


THEY SAID, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They said of her, she never can have felt
Last Line: What if her smiles concealed from you her dead?
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


THOSE EVENING BELLS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those evening bells! Those evening bells!
Last Line: And sing your praise, sweet evening bells.
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness


THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always suddenly they are gone
Last Line: Half inaudibly shrieks to god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 1, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, it looked dark and dreary
Last Line: Down on his golden hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Future; Grief; Heaven; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 3, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The house is all deserted
Last Line: God, and her own true heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THRENODY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No sunny ray, no silver night
Last Line: . . . . . .
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THRENODY, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a grass-grown road from the valley
Last Line: Who lies so far from home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THRO' THE PASS OF LLANBERIS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: You...At the end of the valley!
Last Line: Must I wrestle with despair!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness


THROUGH AGONY: 1, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night, through the eternity of night,
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THROUGH AGONY: 2, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not fear to face the fact and say
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THROUGH MELANCHOLY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When in forest depths I hear the mourning of the mere, red with the
Last Line: World . . . 'tis I.
Subject(s): Death; Forests; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness


THROUGH TEARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An artist toiled over his pictures
Last Line: Of a world that looks on through its tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


TIME, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think sometimes of old griefs I had
Last Line: And the old grief so light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ticking-ticking-ticking of
Last Line: As hoarsely sad at throat as sobs. . . . Pray on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Prayer; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


TIME AND LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken
Last Line: Nay, but rest.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Roundels; Time; Sorrow; Sadness


TIME ROCKING ON, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fell far from tribe
Last Line: & raise to ear
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TIN CUP, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a tin cup
Last Line: And even hell is holy.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TINY TOKENS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The murmur of a waterfall
Last Line: To make it well!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TIRESIAS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an hour before the hour of dawn
Last Line: Are these dead or art thou dead, italy?
Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Grief; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians


TO A BEREAVED MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, say not that your little son is dead
Last Line: Is your ambassador.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A CYPRESS; ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark and mysterious watcher of the dead
Last Line: To wander in thine ancient spell.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Ghosts; Grief; Secrets; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A LADY WEEPING, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O now the certain cause I know
Last Line: This from your cheeks, that from your eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A LADY'S COUNTENANCE, by ELINOR WYLIE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This unphilosophic sight
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A MOCKING-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy taunting happiness
Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide!
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO A MODERN POET (WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take thou these words thine elder brother writ
Last Line: Until death healed thine elder brother's grief.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Dramatists; Grief; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sorrow; Sadness


TO A MOTHER, by A. I. AMBLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh mother, when with thy sorrow alone
Last Line: Thou wilt call the lost once more thine own.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Grief; Love; Mothers; United States - History; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A PORTRAIT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pensive photograph
Last Line: And lost it, she and I.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Portraits; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A PRESSED FLOWER (FOUND IN AN OLD LATIN DICTIONARY), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forgotten bloom that years ago was buried
Last Line: I to a busy world of joy and tears.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


TO A WOUNDED BIRD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou shalt feel no more the wind on thy wing
Last Line: Shall hold me as dear as the rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Birds; God; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing
Last Line: It means you are a boy.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tender softness, infant mild
Last Line: Partner in thy destiny!
Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO, ON THE DEATH OF HIS SONS, by GIROLAMO FRACASTORO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Since with sweet balm the muse alone can heal
Last Line: Together rush'd to form th' emerging world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Fracastorius, Hieronnymus
Subject(s): Creation; Death; Grief; Mourning; Nature; Parents; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood


TO CLOE WEEPING, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, whilst thou weep'st, fair cloe, see
Last Line: But that dear breast on which they fall.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky
Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief.
Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO DELIA: 17, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since the first look that led me to this error
Last Line: And that with tears, yet all this will not move her.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


TO DELIA: 22, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: False hope prolongs my ever certain grief
Last Line: Hopes are unsure when certain is my pain.
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


TO DELIA: 23, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look in my griefs, and blame me not to mourn
Last Line: Her for disdain, and me for loving thus.
Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


TO DELIA: 36, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, be not grieved that these my papers should
Last Line: Yet count it no disgrace that I have loved thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


TO DELIA: 43 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, whither (poor forsaken) wilt thou go
Last Line: Bearing the wound, I needs must feel the pain.
Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO DIANE DE POITIERS, by CLEMENT MAROT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell! Since vain is all my care
Last Line: One far less fond, perchance, had won ye!
Subject(s): Diane De Poitiers (1499-1566); Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness


TO EACH HIS SORROW, by ANNA SPENCER TWITCHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three ghosts stood looking from a hill
Last Line: "not if one lives,"" I said."
Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness


TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by HOWARD ELSMERE FULLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou art a thing of death
Last Line: Pay thee homage at thy shrine.
Subject(s): Grief; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life of my life, take not so soone thy flight
Last Line: Heavy, to hurt those sacred seeds of thee.
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


TO HIS FRIEND, ON THE UNTUNEABLE TIMES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Play I co'd once; but (gentle friend) you see
Last Line: Wither'd my hand, and palsie-struck my tongue.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO LUNA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sister of the earliest light
Last Line: As endymion once drew thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Sorrow; Sadness


TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form
Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot.
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips


TO MARY, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The twentieth year is well nigh past, / since first our sky was overcast
Last Line: My mary!
Variant Title(s): My Mary;to The Same (mary Unwin)
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sickness; Unwin, Mary; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness


TO MARY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is dreary
Last Line: And't is gone, when I should be gone too, mary.
Subject(s): Grief; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MARY SHELLEY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dearest mary, wherefore hast thou gone
Last Line: For thine own sake I cannot follow thee.
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MR HARLEY, WOUNDED BY GUISCARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In one great now, superior to an age
Last Line: Enough to thee of grief, and fame is given.
Subject(s): Death; England; Fame; Grief; Nations; Dead, The; English; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MR. MCG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We were all sad and could not weep
Last Line: To any threat'ning fears.
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TO MRS. B. FROM A LADY WHO HAD A DESIRE TO SEE HER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Send me your pity bounteous shepherdess
Last Line: But yet at your command shall always be
Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);grief;shepherds & Shepherdesses;treason & Traitors;" Sorrow;sadness


TO MRS. MARY AWBREY, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soule of my soule, my joy, my crown, my friend
Last Line: Which they and all the sullen world have lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Variant Title(s): L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey
Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MY ANTENOR, MARCH 16, 1661/2, by KATHERINE PHILIPS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dear antenor, now give o'er
Last Line: Believe that providence will do so too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda
Subject(s): Grief; Innocence; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


TO MY DEAD DOG, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All is noiseless
Last Line: We, like leo, lie at rest!
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO MY FIRST-BORN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: My own, my child, with strange delight I look upon thy face
Last Line: To shield thy heart from passion's strife and fix its hope on heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Hearts; Life; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


TO ONE BEREAVED, by ETHEL KNIGHT FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dear, I know you understood
Last Line: Were written on my face.
Subject(s): Grief; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy


TO ONE DEAD, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A blackbird singing
Last Line: And the sorrow for me.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


TO ONE IN GRIEF, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the years, the empty years, you fear
Last Line: "oh, brave heart, bear it just another day!"
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO ONE MOST UNHAPPY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should see thee, most unhappy, dead
Last Line: And know them mocked, at last, by thee and death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO ONE WEEPING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden, these are sacred tears
Last Line: In my heart at singing time.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO ONE WHO ASKS, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Curious you should not see my feet are weary
Last Line: Kisses from the dead?
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Grief; Enigmas; Oddities; Sorrow; Sadness


TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH MORNING DEW, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears
Last Line: Conceiv'd with grief are, and with teares brought forth.
Subject(s): Grief; Primroses; Sorrow; Sadness


TO S.F.S., by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say that lonely sorrows do not chance
Last Line: Would sleep like those that far-off music hear.
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


TO SARAH BERNHARDT, by EDMOND ROSTAND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In this scarred age thine own is beauty's bust
Last Line: The lips of shakespeare on thy fingers press.
Subject(s): Beauty; Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923); Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO SLEEP AND TO FORGET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To sleep and to forget, -- o blessed guerdon!
Last Line: To sleep and to forget.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


TO SLEEP; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep expand thy downy wing
Last Line: That parts my soul from love—and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Love - Complaints; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness


TO SOME POOR FAULT ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let her so much as lend pale scrutiny
Last Line: The brothers of the word for what it said.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO SORROW, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dark-eyed goddess of the marble brow
Last Line: That all loved things must die.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tormented with incessant pains
Last Line: Admiring you, you pitying us.
Variant Title(s): To Stella, March 13, Mdccxxiii-iv
Subject(s): Absence; Admiration; Grief; Pain; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


TO THE BELOVED, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were a part of the green country
Last Line: And wake, alas! To the lonely places.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness


TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea! All the beauty of sorrow, like a crown
Last Line: Immortals thralled for ever to the dead.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO THE FORGET-ME-NOTS; ON THE PASS OF THE MAIDEN, JAPAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! Fujiyama's snowy cone / the green horizon bounds
Last Line: These alien hills I tread.
Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Grief; Japan; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Japanese


TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And live I still to see relations gone
Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness


TO TWO BEREAVED, by THOMAS ASHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You must be sad; for thought it is to heaven
Last Line: Fair flowers thrive round the little grave, I pray.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TO VICTOR HUGO (2), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had no children, who for love of men
Last Line: 01/03/76
Subject(s): Children; God; Grief; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Love; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


TO WILLIAM LOGAN, ON THE DEATH OF HIS AGED MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mourn not, my christian friend: - thy late removed
Last Line: And blest re-union in the home above!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing away the bliss
Last Line: Tomorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Passing
Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness


TOO LATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! Speak low; tread softly
Last Line: Came a day too late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would speak of that grief
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER ALL SUFFERING, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After all suffering, after all weariness and denial
Last Line: I pass all doors, and am where I would be.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it
Last Line: Others a sound of weeping.
Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


TRAGEDIES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And I was a full-leaved, full-bough'd tree
Last Line: Tranquil, and trembling, and deep in the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Moon; Night; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


TREIZAINE, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If in the world there be more woe
Last Line: My poor true heart, all comfortless.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Song: 47
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TRIAD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the silence of time, time's silence borrow
Last Line: The builders of joy are the children of sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Silence; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


TRIO, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some say sorrow fades
Last Line: And a third, who had no song.
Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Happiness; Women; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Feminism


TRIUMPHALIS, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soul, art thou sad again
Last Line: Never surrender!
Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


TROUBLE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One folds the little white hands, and lays a flower
Last Line: God wot,—a living grief is worse than the peace that folds the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


TRUTH AND SORROW, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths
Last Line: And we are fools, and there's an end of us.
Subject(s): Grief; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness


TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 16, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come away sorrow, sorrow come away
Last Line: Nor, when I slumber, wake me up again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Grief; Tuscany, Italy; Sorrow; Sadness


TWELVE SONGS: 9. FUNERAL BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Love; Mourning; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


TWICE SMITTEN, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O doubly-bowed and bruised reed
Last Line: Thou art of his beloved now!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TWILIGHT APRIL RAIN, by MADELEINE MOSCHENROSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Comes a sudden rush of music in a melting minor strain
Last Line: And the sting that every spring brings when there's twilight april rain!
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


TWILIGHT TERROR, by GEORGIANA RICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Evening comes with peace to some
Last Line: Oh, comfort me!
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


TWO MOTHERS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night two lonely women met
Last Line: "would god that mine were dead!"
Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean


TWO PICTURES, by NICHOLAS MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: High on a snow-clad branch a gloomy bird
Last Line: Oh! Would that again I might hear his lays!
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


TWO PICTURES (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Somebody's heart is gay
Last Line: With hope and sorrow allied!
Subject(s): Grief;hope; Sorrow;sadness;optimism


TWO SONGS OF AUTUMN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind has whipped the willows bare
Last Line: To your deep unrest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness


UNCOMFORTED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lelloine! Lelloine! Don't you
Last Line: And tell him you are lonely without your mother there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Heaven; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


UNDER THE STARS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breath of summer stirs the trees
Last Line: Grow lovely in life's afterglow.
Subject(s): Grief; Life; Stars; Summer; Upper Classes; Sorrow; Sadness


UNDINE: SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fisherman, fisherman, why do you weep
Last Line: Or else that your child were dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grief; Love; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness


UNFINISHED SONG, by ESTHER REINECKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It hangs unfinished in the air
Last Line: My unshed tears.
Subject(s): Grief; Self; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


UNHAPPY FATHER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It makes poor father's spirit sad, when he
Last Line: "thy victory, oh, death, where is thy sting?"
Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


UNREST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the youth of the year, when the birds were building
Last Line: O where is the treasure which men call rest?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Soul; Summer; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness


UNTOLD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A face may be woeful-white to cover a heart that's / aching
Last Line: Alas! For the weary feet that may not rest to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


UPON A MISER THAT MADE A GREAT FEAST; THE NEXT DAY HE DIED FOR GRIEF, by JOHN CLEVELAND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor 'scapes he so; our dinner was so good
Last Line: Throughout all ovid's metamorphoses.]
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Misers; Sorrow; Sadness


UPON MY FATHERS SUDDEN & DANGEROUS SICKNESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though sad this lesson be to me
Last Line: Deaths ev'n shall be the dawn of life to me.
Subject(s): Fathers; Grief; Mortality; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness


UPON PRUE, HIS MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this little urn is laid
Last Line: Spring the purple violet.
Variant Title(s): Upon Prew His Maid
Subject(s): Cremation; Devonshire, England; Grief; Household Employees; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


UPON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH LANGHAM, by BATHSUA PELL MAKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pass not, but wonder, and amazed stand
Last Line: Installed with bliss, and hallelejahs sound.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


UPON YOUNG MASTER ROGERS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of gentle blood, his parents only treasure
Last Line: He leap'd o'er age, and took the shortest way.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


VAIN TEARS, FR. THE QUEEN OF CORINTH, by JOHN FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan
Last Line: Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 10, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You return breathless havingb startled
Last Line: The past curled like wire
Subject(s): The Past Curled Like Wire Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Fatigue


VANITY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! I have suffered deeply
Last Line: From out the fruit of pain.
Subject(s): Grief; Vanity; Sorrow; Sadness


VENERIS DIES, by JEAN PELLERIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woman of sorrow and shame
Last Line: Tonight ... For me.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


VERA, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear child, I know not if thy poor old father
Last Line: I could not keep her here, nor lose her there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Love; Memory; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


VERSES ON HENRY THE EIGHTH'S SEIZING THE ABBEY-LANDS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There liv'd a race to good charissa dear
Last Line: Forgetful of the blood that stain'd his fearful stream.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Greed; Grief; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness


VERSES WRITTEN BY MRS. HUTCHINSON, by LUCY HUTCHINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All sorts of men through various labours presse
Last Line: Or where is man soe uncontroul'd a lord?
Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grief; Life; Nightmares; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


VESPERS, by LOUIS MERCIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a sunday at home
Last Line: Vespers sound.
Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Peace; Silence; Winter; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness


VESTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O christ of god! Whose life and death
Last Line: To thee shall point the way!
Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Sorrow; Sadness


VIA DOLOROSA: 3. THANKSGIVING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could love give strength to thank thee!
Last Line: With love grown strong enough to thank thee, death?
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


VICTORY IN DEFEAT, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Defeat may serve as well as victory
Last Line: To stretch our spaces in the heart for joy.
Subject(s): Defeat; Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


VILLANELLE OF RAINFALL, by ELMER GUSTAFSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: He will not come again
Last Line: Merciless falls the rain.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness


VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen
Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves.
Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness


VIOLIN SONGS: HARD TIMES, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am weary, and very lonely
Last Line: Awake thy life in me.
Subject(s): God; Grief; Solitude; Thirst; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


VISIONS: 1, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting one day beside the banks of mole
Last Line: As need another joseph to expound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Mole, River, England' Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


W.V.M, by KARLE WILSON BAKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead - even he. They told me, and that day
Last Line: Great dead belong to any humble heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


WAITING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dawn comes forth I wonder
Last Line: We will gaze on it with weeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness


WANDERING, by SAMUEL ROTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little man of sorrows, whither would you wander?
Last Line: "I am going to the country where my fathers ruled of old."
Subject(s): Cities; Grief; Homecoming; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


WE WEAR THE MASK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We wear the mask that grins and lies
Last Line: We wear the mask!
Subject(s): African Americans; Grief; Hypocrisy; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Sorrow; Sadness; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WEARY, by MARY J. REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Father! I'm sad and weary - give me rest!
Last Line: Till ends its toilsome pilgrimage below
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WEARYIN' FOR YOU, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jes' a - wearyin' for you
Last Line: Jes' a-wearyin' for you!
Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


WEEP NOT FOR HER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not for her! Her span was like the sky
Last Line: Weep not for her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


WELCOME, by DOROTHY HARIMAN SUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When sorrow came on tip - toe to my door
Last Line: Amazed to find me waiting him dry-eyed.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace
Last Line: Because there was no rain in her vicinity
Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness


WHAT GRIEVING WAS, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was not the summer of aspic
Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness


WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, poet - you, who sing
Last Line: When they take away our tears.
Subject(s): Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


WHAT THE TRAMP SAID, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should we live when living is a pain
Last Line: Ten million miles away from this damned world!
Subject(s): Grief; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness


WHAT THEY SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whispering to themselves
Last Line: "she will follow soon!"" they said."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


WHEN I WALK ALONE, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I walk alone and look into the sky
Last Line: Than the wail of the curlew in the night.
Subject(s): Grief; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness


WHEN I WAS BORN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "when I was born, then others laughed. I cried."
Last Line: At death if love of life did not deceive them so.
Subject(s): Birth;death;grief;happiness; "child Birth;midwifery;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;joy;delight;


WHEN I'M CRYING, I'M NOT SPEAKING, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Barred back from the glare
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WHEN MARY DIED, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She only died last week and yet
Last Line: That budded when she went away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


WHEN PAY DAY COMES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When pay day comes what transports thrill
Last Line: When pay day comes!
Subject(s): Greed; Grief; Happiness; Money; Wages; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Salaries


WHEN SHALL WE ALL MEET AGAIN?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: There shall we all meet again
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness


WHEN THE NIGHT AND MORNING MEET, by DORA GREENWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark and narrow street
Last Line: When the night and morning meet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


WHERE IT LISTETH, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came / but when or how I do not know
Last Line: Told me so.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


WHISPERING FROM THE TREES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did you ever hear the voices
Last Line: "in the breeze, ""good night! Good night!"
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness


WHITE ROSES, by ADELE BABBITT    Poem Text                    
First Line: White roses speak to me
Last Line: And sorrows healed of pain.
Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness


WHO HAS NOT HID A SORROW, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who has not hid a sorrow in his soul
Last Line: Except a tender spot ... A time-worn scar.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WHO IS CONTENT?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who is content? Surely not I
Last Line: The sluggard? Yes,—he is content.
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WHO'D WANT TO BE A MAN, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With his heart
Last Line: And where is the rain?
Subject(s): Character; Grief; Men; Sorrow; Sadness


WHY ARE YOUR POEMS SO DARK?, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Isn't the moon dark too, / most of the time?
Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


WHY DID SHE LEAVE HIM?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "why did she leave him, they grew up together"
Last Line: Why did she leave him? - because he was poor
Subject(s): Beauty;grief;poverty; Sorrow;sadness


WINGS OF ADVERSITY, by ROSE JANE WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Adversity confronts the weary world
Last Line: Resist, america! Resist its clutch!
Subject(s): Adversity; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WINTER BRANCH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I see you
Last Line: Of agony.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness


WINTER DAY, by LEON DIERX    Poem Text                    
First Line: This morning not one beam cleaves the cloud-blind
Last Line: Then ponder on sleep and dark funerëal!
Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness


WINTER RAIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Falling upon the frozen world last night
Last Line: I look straight in the world's bold eyes, and smile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Rain; Winter; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


WINTER REMEMBERED, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Subject(s): Winter; Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


WITH THE TIDE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wave by wave o'er the sandy bar
Last Line: Fell on the night -- and the tide was out
Subject(s): Grief;happiness; Sorrow;sadness;joy;delight


WOMAN'S LOVE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They told me of her history - her love
Last Line: Was as a home.
Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Women; Sorrow; Sadness


WORDS OPEN OUT UPON GRIEF, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like windows in that house high
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WOULD GOD IT WERE EVENING, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imprisoned in the soul and in the sin
Last Line: A sadness as the sadness of to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


WRITTEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: However high, however cold, the fair
Last Line: Who must not speak, and therefore cannot live!
Subject(s): Grief; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING HER AT NEW BURNS, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How quick the change from joy to woe
Last Line: You best may tell who feel the same.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


WRITTEN ON HEARING A LADY SING IN TOWER OF MONTEVIDEO, NEAR HARTFORD, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft dews of twilight are steeping th plain
Last Line: Whose harp breathes her accent of sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness


YEAR'S END, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fingers lie in the lap
Subject(s): Illness; Death - Children; Grief; Fear; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness


YOU, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slanting rain and a sky of gray
Last Line: And you—at home!
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Rain; Water; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness


YOUR EYES, by KEN HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two temples of beauty are
Last Line: Lurk in those pools—your eyes.
Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


YOUR TREASURE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long years - you say - you had a quest
Last Line: Your holy, high love victory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S.
Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Grief; Victory; Gime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Sorrow; Sadness


YUCCAS, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pale and dim fell the moonlight
Last Line: The yuccas witnessed my sorrow.
Subject(s): Grief; Yucca Plants; Sorrow; Sadness


ZARA (1) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken
Last Line: Knowing that I drink them, o my love, for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


[THE DEAD GIRL BY THE BEAUTIFUL BARTLETT], by BECKMAN. JOSHUA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness