Famous Sad Poems

Classic Sad Poems

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Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Votes: 17,  Rating: 4.41 , By Edwin Arlington Robinson
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly ..........
Alone
Votes: 114,  Rating: 4.28 , By Edgar Allan Poe
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My ..........
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A Dream Within A Dream
Votes: 37,  Rating: 4.14 , By Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a ..........
The Sick Rose
Votes: 16,  Rating: 3.88 , By William Blake
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
The Man He Killed
Votes: 12,  Rating: 3.75 , By Thomas Hardy
Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot ..........
Mirror
Votes: 15,  Rating: 3.73 , By Sylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful ‚
The eye of a little god, ..........
The Bells
Votes: 12,  Rating: 3.25 , By Edgar Allan Poe
I

Hear the sledges with the bells -
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars ..........
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Miss Rosie
Votes: 7,  Rating: 3.14 , By Lucille Clifton
when I watch you
wrapped up like garbage
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of too old potato peels
or
when I watch you
in your old man's shoes
with the little toe cut out ..........
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