Lonely Poems - Page 2

21. Love Is Not All

Famous Poem

• By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;

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22. Waiting

• By Annette R. Hershey
• Published by Family Friend Poems June 2017 with permission of the Author.

Imagine the sun sinking
and dim turns to dark.
The silence that surrounds you,
the shadows that make their mark.

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23. Waiting...

• By Rayna R Palacios
• Published by Family Friend Poems May 2023 with permission of the Author.

Waiting for you to call...
Knowing that you won't...
Hoping for you to come by...
Waiting...

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24. Love's Philosophy

Famous Poem

• By Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;

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25. Paradox

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• By Jessie B. Rittenhouse

I went out to the woods to-day
To hide away from you,
From you a thousand miles away—
But you came, too.

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26. Words Unspoken

• By Day
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2010 with permission of the Author.

It's been 2 months since you left
And I think about you every day,
Whenever I get lonely
I remember what you used to say

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27. A Dream Girl

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• By Carl Sandburg

You will come one day in a waver of love,
Tender as dew, impetuous as rain,
The tan of the sun will be on your skin,
The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech,

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28. Lone Gentleman

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• By Pablo Neruda

The gay young men and the love-sick girls,
and the abandoned widows suffering in sleepless delirium,
and the young pregnant wives of thirty hours,
and the raucous cats that cruise my garden in the shadows,

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