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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MELANCHOLY Matches Found: 130 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DULL DAY IN SEPTEMBER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A melancholy wind moans all the day Last Line: Calls off his glittering legions from the chase. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection A LONG WHILE AGO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still hangeth down the old accustom'd willow Last Line: A long while ago. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Friendship; Melancholy; Memory; Dejection A WINTER OF LOVE LETTERS AND A MORNING PRAYER: 7, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beeches are vibrant because there is black Last Line: Like lace. Jane with sunspots; with, almost, grace. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Trees; Dejection A WISH - TO THE NEW YEAR, 1705, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Janus! Great leader of the rolling year Last Line: And cease to love in vain, and be a wretch no more. Subject(s): Holidays; Melancholy; New Year; Wishes; Dejection ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG MAN OF FORTUNE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence that fantastic wantonness of woe Last Line: A prey to tyrants, murderers of mankind. Subject(s): Idleness; Melancholy; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Dejection AEGEAN MELANCHOLY, by ODYSSEUS ALEPOUDELI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What linking soul to the halycons of the afternoon! Last Line: The light at the birth of the two eyes of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Elytis, Odysseus; Elytis, Odysseas; Alepudelis, Odisseus Subject(s): Melancholy ALGEBRA, by SARAH BROWN WEITZMAN Poem Source First Line: Whenever I hear a train whistle Last Line: Seeing how wide-eyed I'd become %would call on me Subject(s): Fear; Melancholy; Pessimism ALL NIGHT THROUGH, RAVES OR BROODS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And still I feel the wandering— Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Rain; Melancholy AMORETTI: 23, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Penelope, for her ulysses' [ulisses] sake Last Line: Whose fruitlesse worke is broken with least wynd. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "doing And Undoing;""penelope For Her Ulisses' Sake,""; Subject(s): Penelope (mythology); Melancholy ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Celestial influences affect the earth, define the surface Last Line: Resting on a firm cloud of cotton Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Emotions; Life; Melancholy ASPECTS OF MELANCHOLIA, THE MURDERER PAUSES, by RICHARD H. W. DILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hand lying on the counterpane Last Line: As the scratched grave of a victim, used and laid away Alternate Author Name(s): Dillard, R. H. W. Subject(s): Melancholy; Murder AUTUMN NIGHT IN JINLING, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: Crickets chirp with deep sorrow Last Line: Forlorn, forlorn, feelings past and present Subject(s): Melancholy AUTUMN NIGHT: LAMENTING MY FEELINGS, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: In this endless chilly evening, dew refreshes the air Last Line: The west wind incites sentiments of ten thousand years Subject(s): Melancholy AUTUMN SONGS, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jews, my brothers, will they understand me? Last Line: My song, my melancholy song. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Judaism; Dejection AUTUMNAL SONNET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods Last Line: Poor earth, where we were wont to live and grieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Desertion & Nonsupport; Grief; Leaves; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection BAIZI LING: MOURNING ON THE DOUBLE FIFTH FESTIVAL, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: Time of melancholy Last Line: Nothing is sadder than my shabby lodge Subject(s): Melancholy BALLAD OF THE LADIES OF OLDEN TIMES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me where, in what foreign place / is flora, who wore roman dress Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): History; Melancholy; Historians; Dejection CINQUAINS, by GEORGE NOBBE Poem Text First Line: A mischievous wind / blew a swirl of leaves Last Line: In infinity? Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection COME, MELANCHOLY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Come, melancholy, come, delight Last Line: That casts a halo on our birth! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection CONSIDERING COLDLY, IMPARTIALLY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What the hell. Moved...Deeply moved Subject(s): Melancholy; Sympathy CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War DAY OF THE DEAD, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA Poem Source First Line: The light is dim, the day opaque. The drizzle falls and Last Line: The mournful bells that speak to the living of the dead! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Melancholy; Peace DEJECTION, by GRACE E. ALBRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It is winter in my garden Last Line: Burial. Subject(s): Melancholy; Winter; Dejection DEJECTION, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore tonight so full of care Last Line: Yet are they only not enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Life; Melancholy; Dejection DEJECTION, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bone-idle, I lie listening to the rain Last Line: Who have twice come in from the cold? Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection DEJECTION, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bone-idle, I lie listening to the rain Last Line: Who have twice come in from the cold? Subject(s): Melancholy DEJECTION: 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 DEPARTURE OF KING SEBASTIAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It was a lusitanian lady, and she was lofty in degree Last Line: At young sebastian's feet?' she said -- 'the lord hath blessed my king' Subject(s): Absence; Heaven; Melancholy; Sebastian. King Of Portugal (1554-1578) DISCOURSE ON MELANCHOLY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A sad and solemn verse doth please the mind Last Line: Since death in misery is a release Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Melancholy DREAM OF LIFE'S EARLY DAY, FAREWELL FOR EVER, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright mornings! Of beauty and bloom, that, in boyhood Last Line: Oh! Dream of life's early day, farewell for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection EARLY MORNING IN YOUR ROOM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's morning. The brown scoops of coffee, the wasplike Subject(s): Home; Morning; Said He Was Melancholy, He Meant He Was Hom ECLOGUE 1; TO DON PEDRO DE TOLEDO, VICEROY OF NAPLES, by GARCILASO DE LA VEGA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet lament of two castilian swains Last Line: To fold their flocks, and step by step withdrew %through bowery lawns and pastures wet with dew Alternate Author Name(s): Garcillaso De La Vega; Vega, Garcilaso De La Subject(s): Melancholy; Praise ELEGIAC SONNET: 32. TO MELANCHOLY. WRITTEN ON BANKS OF ARUN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When latest autumn spreads her evening veil Last Line: And soothe the pensive visionary mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Melancholy; Otway, Thomas (1652-1685); Dejection ELEGY, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source First Line: Alone, with harsh marine aloneness Last Line: In the eyes of the sea Subject(s): Melancholy; Solitude EXILE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I have made grief a gorgeous, queenly thing Last Line: Disrobed, bereft, an outcast in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection FEELING MELANCHOLY, by WANG SU Poem Source First Line: My tears are not easily released Last Line: To whom can I speak of these? Subject(s): Melancholy FENGLIUZI: REMINISCING WITH SU'AN, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: It's just like looking back on yesterday's events Last Line: Should have mistakenly flown to fairy isle! Subject(s): Melancholy; Memory FOUR QUESTIONS OF MELANCHOLY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I know. You're off to war now, off to trample flowers Last Line: You're framed in light? When you gaze at the woods Subject(s): Melancholy HOT HILL, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: Seeped in a symphony of sound Last Line: Beyond the cedar trees. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection I READ ABOUT BORGES, PASTING POSTERS ON WALLS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: You can broil steak on me Subject(s): Melancholy IL PENSEROSO, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hence vain deluding joys Last Line: And I with thee will choose to live. Subject(s): Introspection; Life; Melancholy; Night; Dejection; Bedtime IMPERIAL EVENINGS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The emperors have not always donned fresh attire Last Line: As he reassembled his black vertebrae Subject(s): Imperialism; Melancholy IN AN OLD SOUTHERN GARDEN, by HALLIE HALL Poem Text First Line: In an old southern garden - I found Last Line: Romance -- of the long long ago. . . . Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection IN THE KING'S ENGLISH, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Er - dear, and all that sort of rot Last Line: In jolly bliss. Eh, what? Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection INDUCTION TO A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES, SELS., by THOMAS SACKVILLE Poet Analysis Subject(s): Death; Melancholy IT IS AN ASHEN AND SHABBY EVENING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Always chasing after god in the haze Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Melancholy; Nostalgia; Poetry And Poets LETTER TO THE HON. MRS AUGUSTA PARKER, SELS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: -and my garden is now admirably beautiful, & were it not for the Last Line: The water, where they justly expiate their unpleasant & greedy sins Subject(s): Melancholy; Sin LIKE ANAKREON, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And macabre dancing before time Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Melancholy LITTLE ODE TO MELANCHOLY, by RICARDO MOLINARI Poem Source First Line: Over the wild cold leaves of time you arrive, stained Last Line: Nostalgic and scattered Subject(s): Melancholy LOVE IS A BOG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love is a bog, a deep bog, and a wide bog" Last Line: And dwells in the house of melancholy Subject(s): Love - Nature Of;melancholy; Dejection LOVE'S FOOL TO HIS LADY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's fool am I. To thine imperial court Last Line: Love's fool am I. Subject(s): Fidelity; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Faithfulness; Constancy; Dejection MARCELIA; A TRAGICOMEDY. SONG, by FRANCES BOOTHBY Poem Text First Line: You powerful gods! If I must be Last Line: Let rage, despair, and death, then end their flame. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light seen suddenly in the storm, snow Last Line: Swirling over everything alive Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light seen suddenly in the storm, snow Last Line: Swirling over everything alive Subject(s): Melancholy MELANCHOLIA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sickness of desire, that in dark days Last Line: If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silently without my window Last Line: Now, my soul, I sleep. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold starlight, on the barren beach Last Line: Glittering magnificently unperturbed. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIA (FOR AN ENGRAVING BY ALBRECHT DURER), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many years I toiled like caliban Last Line: The sun sets, and a bat flies past the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLIE, SELS., by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soul of bitterness, filled with disgust Last Line: Blonde scattered locks across her shoulders curled Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Art And Artists; Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Engraving And Engravers; Melancholy MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas mid of the moon but the night was dark with rain Last Line: If only he sleep and sleep and have rest for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: First she grew wings, brilliant wings that she wore painfully Last Line: And then everything was just a memory Subject(s): Melancholy; Memory MELANCHOLY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn shadows tint the waving trees Last Line: To melancholy and the muse resigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning Last Line: A bliss to the eye, and a balm to the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain and wind, the rain and wind, raved endlessly Last Line: Rumors of what had touched my friends, my foes, or me. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY DIRGE, FR. THE FAID MAID OF PERTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, thou mayst sigh Last Line: And then an end of human ill, %for thou art dead Subject(s): Melancholy MELANCHOLY REFRAINS, by STUART MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ineffable horror of somnolent summer Last Line: Till the suns have grown cold - go on suffering in vain? Subject(s): Melancholy MELANCHOLY TOWERS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The slaves had huge hands and they built gloomy towers Last Line: Where swallows weave out in great sweeps in the air %like the silent strokes of a whip Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy; Slavery MELANCHOLY WATER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: There is an intelligence in joy Last Line: I hear only the cry of a goose Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Tears; Water MELANCHOLY'S DESCRIPTION OF HER DWELLING, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in groves that gilt are with the sun Last Line: Maintain your credit and your dignity. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Houses; Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLY; PINDARIC ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What in the name of wonder's this Last Line: And that they have disgrac'd themselves to honour thee. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MELANCHOLYE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! Al vaine delightes Last Line: Dust and immortall youthe. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection MOONLESS NIGHT', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Melancholy fills the heart Subject(s): Melancholy; Night NETLEY ABBEY, MIDNIGHT, by WILLIAM S. SOTHEBY Poem Text First Line: Soft on the wave the oars at distance sound Last Line: Shall pour the lenient balm that soothes the soul to peace. Subject(s): Funerals; Melancholy; Night; Burials; Dejection; Bedtime NOW PHILIPPA IS GONE, THAT SO DIVINELY, by ANNE RIDLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And take our tea and melons in the shade Subject(s): Melancholy ODE ON MELANCHOLY, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, no, go not to lethe, neither twist Last Line: And be among her cloudy trophies hung. Variant Title(s): On Melancholy Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection ODE TO A LONG SORROW, by RICARDO MOLINARI Poem Source First Line: I would like to tell about an enduring sorrow I have Last Line: But, oh, I feel the sea arriving in my mouth! Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy ODE TO A SINGING BIRDS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: But why for thee this fond complaint? Last Line: "and oft suppress the rising tear?" Subject(s): Birds; Melancholy; Dejection ODE TO MELANCHOLY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us set our careful breasts Last Line: But has its chord in melancholy. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection OSTRICH, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Melancholia, pull out your sweet beak now Last Line: And bare your woman's lip! Subject(s): Birds; Food And Eating; Hearts; Melancholy; Ostriches; Pain PATHETIQUE, by NELSON HANBACK Poem Text First Line: Among this somber tone, bend low in sadness Last Line: To whirl the isles of beauty in music's art. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection PERSONIFICATION OF MELANCHOLY, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is low, and gives a hollow sound Last Line: She loves to live, and there alone she dwells. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Melancholy PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of musings, contemplation sage Last Line: Of wood-hung meinai, stream of druids old, %that laved his hallowed haunt with dashing wave Subject(s): Melancholy PRIMORDIAL SPRINGS, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you sleeping, springtime of the world? Last Line: Springs I have never known. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melancholy; Mourning; Spring; Dejection; Bereavement QUATRAIN WITH PREFACE, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Cold rises from the lonely pillow, sweet dreams come often Last Line: But I still wish to be the one in your dream Subject(s): Melancholy RAIN IN THE NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain in the night is falling Last Line: The pattering of the rain. Subject(s): Melancholy; Rain; Dejection RAINY NIGHT, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Black of night; soft-dripping rain Last Line: Alone, in darkness, my heart grieves. Subject(s): Melancholy; Mourning; Rain; Tears; Water; Dejection; Bereavement REASONABLE MELANCHOLY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tell me no more of sweets & joyes Last Line: Arabia, & can sooner reach the skie. Subject(s): Fertility; Marriage; Melancholy; Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Spring; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dejection RELEASE FROM MELANCHOLY; SONG (WRITTEN UNDER THE FLOWERS), by LI HE Poem Source First Line: Autumn winds blow over the earth Last Line: And not let the world's petty things %weigh down and stifle me Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Melancholy RIGHT OF THE STRONG, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The right of the strong is to take everything Last Line: One more sip before I return %to earth Subject(s): Melancholy SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad one, must you weep alway? Last Line: "pray you, let it be!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SCILLA'S METAMORPHOSIS: MELANCHOLY, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth, late choked with showers Last Line: I sad and pensive wholly. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Melancholy; Dejection SILVER TEARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many tributes life hath brought me Last Line: For my wild heart's suffering. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SO TERRIFYINGLY MELANCHOLY, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: In a thick stand of trees in a forest Last Line: Ever so terryingly melancholy Subject(s): Forests; Melancholy SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reading ends in melancholy Last Line: Farewell all, if friendship ceases. Subject(s): Books; Disease; Friendship; Melancholy; Reading; Dejection SONNET, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, all sweet refrains my lip hath Last Line: Who wilt, by killing, finally release Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Melancholy SONNET TO MELANCHOLY, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: When wintry tempests agitate the deep Last Line: Beyond the narrow bounds of space or time! Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 29, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You seek the other side of the street Last Line: And hungry of death Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Melancholy SPLEEN; A PINDARIC POEM, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, spleen, which everything dost ape? Last Line: Retain thy pris'ner, thy acknowledged slave, %and sank beneath thy chain to a lamented grave Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Melancholy STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS OF MELANCHOLY DREAMS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye airy phantoms, by whose pow'r Last Line: Then let me sink to rest—and never wake again! Subject(s): Dreams; Melancholy; Nightmares; Dejection THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year Last Line: So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Dejection THE EXILE'S REVERIES, SELECTION, by JAMES KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Chased from my calling to this hackneyed trade Last Line: Patriots drag the felon's chain. Subject(s): Books; Exiles; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Sailing & Sailors; Soldiers; Reading; Dejection; Seamen; Sails THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.' Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement THE FOUR HUMOURS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wondered if the rumors got to her Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Anger; Melancholy; Cancer (disease); Doctors; Illness; Dejection THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 85. VAIN VIRTUES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the sorriest thing that enters hell? Last Line: The sin still blithe on earth that sent them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Melancholy; Virtue; Dejection THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 86. LOST DAYS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lost days of my life until to-day Last Line: "and thou thyself to all eternity!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Melancholy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dejection THE ICONOCLAST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since my soul grown sick of sordid things Last Line: And all the horrors of a world grown gray. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Passion; Torture; Dejection THE KNIGHT AND THE FRIAR: PART 1, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: In our fifth harry's reign, when 'twas the fashion Last Line: Beats all that I can say upon it. Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Love; Melancholy; Dejection THE PASSING OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At pisa, where the cypress-spires alway Last Line: "beyond the flaming rampire of the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Aging; Courage; Death; Melancholy; Pisa, Italy; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Dejection THE PULLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god at first made man Last Line: May toss him to my breast. Variant Title(s): The Gifts Of God;rest Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Mankind; Melancholy; Redemption; Religion; Human Race; Dejection; Theology THE ROBIN, AN ELEGY, by JOSEPH GILES Poem Text First Line: O come, thou melancholy muse Last Line: "and many a pleasing thought inspire." Subject(s): Melancholy; Robins; Dejection THE SAVAGE OF AVEYRON, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the mazes of a wood Subject(s): Forests; Melancholy; Woods; Dejection THE SPLEEN; A PINDARIC POEM, by ANNE FINCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, spleen, which everything dost ape? Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection THE TRIUMPH OF MELANCHOLY, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, be still! Why throng upon the thought Last Line: For long the night, and distant far his home. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection THE WISH, by JABEZ HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Ye powers who sway the skies above Last Line: A safe retreat from future woe! Subject(s): Melancholy; Wishes; Dejection THE WORLD; SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is too much with us: late and soon Last Line: Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn. Variant Title(s): Rather A Pagan;worldliness Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Melancholy; Men; Nature; Paganism & Pagans; Social Protest; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dejection THEINE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If compelled / to give it up Last Line: Sleepier / than air Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DUNROSE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which soothed that old man of dunrose Subject(s): Melancholy; Old Age THEY DO NOT KNOW, by ALBERT MOCKEL Poem Text First Line: Far in the meadow, through the fountainrain Last Line: I had known my own kisses again. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Loneliness TO MELANCHOLY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now let me put my words to bed Last Line: More awful than my dead loves were Subject(s): Melancholy TO MELANCHOLY, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of love and sorrow -- hail Last Line: O'er foaming seas and distant sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Melancholy; Solitude; Dejection; Loneliness TO MEMORY, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, hither come Last Line: With silent melancholy. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Bible; Melancholy; Memory; Mythology; Rivers; Dejection TO THE SAME LADY UPON MR. BURTON'S MELANCHOLY, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If in this glass of humours you do find Last Line: By others' melancholy, not your own. Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection TWILIGHT, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Dusk comes creeping from horizon Last Line: Lets the dusk not linger long. Subject(s): Evening; Melancholy; Mourning; Silence; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Dejection; Bereavement; Loneliness VISION, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Was it perhaps in an imagined frame Last Line: In I know not what huge fold of darkness! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy WAR VARIATIONS, SELS., by AMELIA ROSSELLI Poem Source First Line: The stay in hell was of a divine nature Last Line: Neighbor bigger than me has left, I follow him Subject(s): Love; Melancholy; Tears WE SHOULD NOT MIND SO SMALL A FLOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And dandelions gold Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Melancholy WEARINESS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, I am weary of the world Last Line: To place them with my soul beneath your feet. Subject(s): Death; Melancholy; Weariness; Dead, The; Dejection; Fatigue WHEN 'GRAND OLD MEN' PERSIST IN FOLLY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then straight onward to sanremo Subject(s): Grandparents; Melancholy; Old Age WINTER PIECE, by GUIDO GOZZANO Poem Source First Line: Cree - ee - eak %the spreading fracture Last Line: Her small hand to me as she hissed -- you worm Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy |
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