Content type: Poem / Poem Theme: Love and Grief / sadness / melancholy

1. A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

First Line:: A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing
Last Line:: By night he scorches as he burns by day
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 7032

2. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

First Line:: A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed
Last Line:: These with my woe my woes with these increase
Author:: Anthony Munday (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13195

3. A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy

First Line:: A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy
Last Line:: Time or some new desire shall this destroy
Author:: Nahum Tate (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3782

4. A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree

First Line:: A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree
Last Line:: Sing O the greene willow shall be my garland
DMI number:: 37267

5. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

First Line:: A shepherd boy all in an evening fair
Last Line:: To slumbers soft his sorrowing breast invite
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Confident)
DMI number:: 6478

6. A restless lover I espied

First Line:: A restless lover I espied
Last Line:: Nor Cupid a physician
DMI number:: 44280

7. A little herd-groom for he was no better

First Line:: A little herd-groom for he was no better
Last Line:: Whose voice did help their masters case lament
Author:: Francis Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49804

8. A little herd-groom for he was no better

First Line:: A little herd-groom for he was no better
Last Line:: Whose voice did helpe their master's case lament
Author:: Francis Davison (Absolute)
DMI number:: 49885

9. A lover of late was I

First Line:: A lover of late was I
Last Line:: And now I am myselfe againe
DMI number:: 37615

10. Ah pity Colin cruel fair

First Line:: Ah pity Colin cruel fair
Last Line:: Before it is too late
DMI number:: 23565

11. All dangers past at length the lovely bride

First Line:: All dangers past at length the lovely bride
Last Line:: Eurydice the rocks and river banks repied
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 28083

12. All day I weep my weary woes

First Line:: All day I weep my weary woes
Last Line:: And live in peace
Author:: Thomas Lodge (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44724

13. A | I love a nymph a lack a day

First Line:: A | I love a nymph a lack a day
Last Line:: May suffer shipwreck in the main
DMI number:: 44179

14. Absent from thee I languish still

First Line:: Absent from thee I languish still
Last Line:: And lose my everlasting rest
Author:: John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4117

15. Adieu desert how art thou spent

First Line:: Adieu desert how art thou spent
Last Line:: That thy true heart should cause thy woe
DMI number:: 9075

16. Adieu then o my soul's far better part

First Line:: Adieu then o my soul's far better part
Last Line:: Like gasps in death which but prolong our pain
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20245

17. Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

First Line:: Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair
Last Line:: Yet love the coward love still lags behind
Author:: James Hammond (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22608

18. Ah well a day how long must I endure

First Line:: Ah well a day how long must I endure
Last Line:: Stay simple girl a lover cannot harm
Author:: Ambrose Philips (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22697

19. Alexis the pride of the plain

First Line:: Alexis the pride of the plain
Last Line:: And imparts more than time steals away
DMI number:: 32602

20. Ah Celia leave that cruel art

First Line:: Ah Celia leave that cruel art
Last Line:: And I'll divorce myself from love
DMI number:: 44027

21. Ah Colin why should thou despair

First Line:: Ah Colin why should thou despair
Last Line:: Shall pleasantly glide over the green
DMI number:: 12694

22. Ah cruel love when will thy torments cease

First Line:: Ah cruel love when will thy torments cease
Last Line:: And triumphed over a true and broken heart
DMI number:: 43590

23. Ah cruel nymph how canst thou punish me

First Line:: Ah cruel nymph how canst thou punish me
Last Line:: Than it would for you to be more kind and love
DMI number:: 44640

24. Ah Delia see the fatal hour

First Line:: Ah Delia see the fatal hour
Last Line:: Wilt ever think on me
Author:: Elizabeth Carter (Absolute)
DMI number:: 38348

25. A youth once free and happy now a slave

First Line:: A youth once free and happy now a slave
Last Line:: Smiles when he weeps and frowns when he complains
DMI number:: 3699

26. All in vain

First Line:: All in vain
Last Line:: Till I have reason
DMI number:: 43879

27. And will you Clody leave

First Line:: And will you Clody leave
Last Line:: For novelty you slight
DMI number:: 12780

28. Answer my soul whence this unmanly fear

First Line:: Answer my soul whence this unmanly fear
Last Line:: All but a god is he whom Laura loves
DMI number:: 26910

29. All the flatteries of fate

First Line:: All the flatteries of fate
Last Line:: To be interred with the dirge of the disconsolate quire
DMI number:: 44142

30. Alone and pensive through deserted meads

First Line:: Alone and pensive through deserted meads
Last Line:: And he and I alternate converse hold
DMI number:: 29959

31. Amid the vain of Persia was a youth

First Line:: Amid the vain of Persia was a youth
Last Line:: On her slain lover silent sinks in death
Author:: Richard Glover (Absolute)
DMI number:: 30927

32. Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams

First Line:: Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams
Last Line:: And damps the cheerful choir
DMI number:: 4519

33. As late to shun the noon day's scorching heat

First Line:: As late to shun the noon day's scorching heat
Last Line:: And cursed the shepherd who was dead to love
DMI number:: 41767

34. As the stars in darkest night

First Line:: As the stars in darkest night
Last Line:: It will at last break forth again
DMI number:: 44094

35. As oft as I behold and see

First Line:: As oft as I behold and see
Last Line:: Of ill sown seed such is the fruit
DMI number:: 32104

36. Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

First Line:: Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day
Last Line:: Tis barbarous to insult on one that dies
Author:: William Walsh (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6683

37. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

First Line:: Arise ye winds from your rough caves
Last Line:: And then she laid her down and died
DMI number:: 42801

38. Around the barren heath I rove

First Line:: Around the barren heath I rove
Last Line:: Unless they mourn your absence too
DMI number:: 12836

39. As I lay all alone on my bed slumbering

First Line:: As I lay all alone on my bed slumbering
Last Line:: Which makes me sigh &c
DMI number:: 44234

40. As in September when our year resigns

First Line:: As in September when our year resigns
Last Line:: Because that weeping cannot ease my heart
Author:: Michael Drayton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17024

41. As it fell out on a long summer's day

First Line:: As it fell out on a long summer's day
Last Line:: Or they had now been there
DMI number:: 37601

42. At this late hour the world lies hushed below

First Line:: At this late hour the world lies hushed below
Last Line:: Here let me ever dwell for heaven is here
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 17520

43. Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn

First Line:: Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn
Last Line:: Yet still I the hard hearted fair will love
DMI number:: 42768

44. Ask me no longer dear Sir John

First Line:: Ask me no longer dear Sir John
Last Line:: And ease a lover's pain without her
Author:: Thomas Brown (Confident)
DMI number:: 43427

45. Asterie why dost thou mourn

First Line:: Asterie why dost thou mourn
Last Line:: Thou art hard still hard remain
Author:: Sir Richard Fanshawe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42104

46. Be gone fond love I'll dote no more

First Line:: Be gone fond love I'll dote no more
Last Line:: I love my nymph says I I love again says she
DMI number:: 44629

47. Be sorrow banished give not all your bloom

First Line:: Be sorrow banished give not all your bloom
Last Line:: And pleasing melancholy will remain
DMI number:: 25919

48. Be thou that art my better part

First Line:: Be thou that art my better part
Last Line:: The freedom of affection buy
DMI number:: 43831

49. Behind an unfrequented glade

First Line:: Behind an unfrequented glade
Last Line:: And knaves and prudes are six times married
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11870

50. Beyond the malice of abusive fate

First Line:: Beyond the malice of abusive fate
Last Line:: For sweet Amintor's dead who was my dear
DMI number:: 43821

51. Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears

First Line:: Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears
Last Line:: Who's therefore true because her truth kills me
Author:: John Donne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6708

52. Blind Cupid lay thy bow aside

First Line:: Blind Cupid lay thy bow aside
Last Line:: He'll kiss not curse thy dart
DMI number:: 44454

53. Break break distracted heart there is no cure

First Line:: Break break distracted heart there is no cure
Last Line:: A medicine to my grief I'll die I'll die
DMI number:: 43818

54. Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain

First Line:: Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain
Last Line:: And smarting cry in vain break heavy heart
DMI number:: 49679

55. Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain

First Line:: Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain
Last Line:: And smarting cry in vaine break heavy heart
DMI number:: 49874

56. Believe my sighs my tears my dear

First Line:: Believe my sighs my tears my dear
Last Line:: I never loved one but you
DMI number:: 17736

57. Beneath a cooling shade

First Line:: Beneath a cooling shade
Last Line:: And heaven is but to love
DMI number:: 12817

58. Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade

First Line:: Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade
Last Line:: Ever Melania's love and praise and name shall live
DMI number:: 42736

59. Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade

First Line:: Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade
Last Line:: Nor pain forsake me in the jocund field
Author:: Thomas Percy (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27886

60. Calvus if tears which we profusely shed

First Line:: Calvus if tears which we profusely shed
Last Line:: Though sudden as the joys to think how well you love
DMI number:: 8543

61. Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell

First Line:: Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell
Last Line:: What it is to love too well
DMI number:: 33662

62. By the side of a murmuring stream

First Line:: By the side of a murmuring stream
Last Line:: His ghost shall glide over the green
Author:: Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12691

63. By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide

First Line:: By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide
Last Line:: Now cease ye woods no more resound my strains
Author:: Robert Colvill (Absolute)
DMI number:: 25932

64. By heaven tis scarce ten days ago

First Line:: By heaven tis scarce ten days ago
Last Line:: But only give me leave to love thee free from hate
DMI number:: 43578

65. By heavens I think there are some ages past

First Line:: By heavens I think there are some ages past
Last Line:: In mine it does to many years amount
DMI number:: 39414

66. Burst out my soul in main of tears

First Line:: Burst out my soul in main of tears
Last Line:: It might be seen into my heart
Author:: James Graham (Confident)
DMI number:: 4691

67. But that I knew before we met

First Line:: But that I knew before we met
Last Line:: And the best vision that's your sight
DMI number:: 44459

68. Brightest since your pitying eye

First Line:: Brightest since your pitying eye
Last Line:: Both scatter wounds and scatter balsam rob
DMI number:: 43928

69. Bring back my comfort and return

First Line:: Bring back my comfort and return
Last Line:: To those sequestered joys I had before
Author:: Charles Cotton (Absolute)
DMI number:: 43919

70. Cease restless thoughts surcharg'd with heaviness

First Line:: Cease restless thoughts surcharg'd with heaviness
Last Line:: Love fortune and disdain enough of trouble
DMI number:: 44769

71. Chloe found Amyntas lying

First Line:: Chloe found Amyntas lying
Last Line:: Kissed him up and eased his pain
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4322

72. Chloe is fled ye nimble pulses cease

First Line:: Chloe is fled ye nimble pulses cease
Last Line:: That she may know the power of her eyes
DMI number:: 12890

73. Come here fond youth whoever thou be

First Line:: Come here fond youth whoever thou be
Last Line:: For if thou thus hast loved oh never hope a cure
Author:: Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36942

74. Cruel hard-hearted man was he who first

First Line:: Cruel hard-hearted man was he who first
Last Line:: Thought nothing here worth living for and died
DMI number:: 41860

75. Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart

First Line:: Dear soul who hath encaptived so my heart
Last Line:: That I will never love none else but you
DMI number:: 44462

76. Dear madam oh how great the pity

First Line:: Dear madam oh how great the pity
Last Line:: And all be music rapture love
DMI number:: 24288

77. Dear object of my love didst thou but know

First Line:: Dear object of my love didst thou but know
Last Line:: My griefs will make me sigh my soul away
DMI number:: 42222

78. Despair despair no more

First Line:: Despair despair no more
Last Line:: And Darie with a bribe
DMI number:: 44438

79. Despairing as I sat alone

First Line:: Despairing as I sat alone
Last Line:: Must bear our grief or die with shame
Author:: John Crowne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6536

80. Early one morn a jolly brisk tar

First Line:: Early one morn a jolly brisk tar
Last Line:: This is all I require
DMI number:: 31072

81. Delia why should I thus be bound

First Line:: Delia why should I thus be bound
Last Line:: Or banish from my breast the boy
DMI number:: 5068

82. Divide my times and rate my wretched hours

First Line:: Divide my times and rate my wretched hours
Last Line:: Whose better hap may live to more delight
Author:: Sir Edward Dyer (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44776

83. Dread sir if your just grief no bounds receives

First Line:: Dread sir if your just grief no bounds receives
Last Line:: At once we grieve and banish all our fears
DMI number:: 42892

84. Far in the windings of a vale

First Line:: Far in the windings of a vale
Last Line:: She shivered sighed and died
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 35227

85. Far in the windings of a vale

First Line:: Far in the windings of a vale
Last Line:: She shivering sighed and died
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 21808

86. Far in the windings of the vale

First Line:: Far in the windings of the vale
Last Line:: She shivering sighed and died
Author:: David Mallet (Absolute)
DMI number:: 24570

87. Fire fire lo here I burn in such desire

First Line:: Fire fire lo here I burn in such desire
Last Line:: Which else must die and with me fall
DMI number:: 44255

88. Fain would I love but that I fear

First Line:: Fain would I love but that I fear
Last Line:: Love neither fair black brown but all
DMI number:: 43540

89. Feed still thy self thou fondling with belief

First Line:: Feed still thy self thou fondling with belief
Last Line:: When thou complainst the heat and feeds the fire
Author:: John Lyly (Absolute)
DMI number:: 44740

90. Fierce bulls when Venus stings incite

First Line:: Fierce bulls when Venus stings incite
Last Line:: And do much more to gain her ease
DMI number:: 44117

91. Farewell dear love since thou wilt needs begone

First Line:: Farewell dear love since thou wilt needs begone
Last Line:: Faith let her goe or come or tarry
DMI number:: 37271

92. Farewell false love the oracle of lies

First Line:: Farewell false love the oracle of lies
Last Line:: Dead is the root from which such fancies grew
Author:: William Byrd (Confident) & Thomas Deloney (Confident)
DMI number:: 4716

93. Farewell fond love under whose childish whip

First Line:: Farewell fond love under whose childish whip
Last Line:: The hollow echo shall reply tis I
DMI number:: 44043

94. Farewell my Almeda my joy and my grief

First Line:: Farewell my Almeda my joy and my grief
Last Line:: You will say with a sigh it was given by me
DMI number:: 44284

95. Farewell my little charming boy

First Line:: Farewell my little charming boy
Last Line:: And bid adieu to the dear charming boy
DMI number:: 43593

96. Farewell my useless scrip

First Line:: Farewell my useless scrip
Last Line:: Till death shall set me free
DMI number:: 44425

97. Farewell thou false Philander

First Line:: Farewell thou false Philander
Last Line:: The charmer you disdain
DMI number:: 23630

98. Forgive the weakness of a love sick mind

First Line:: Forgive the weakness of a love sick mind
Last Line:: And death for ever rob me of thy sight
DMI number:: 24274

99. For ever o merciless fair

First Line:: For ever o merciless fair
Last Line:: If you even resolve not to love
DMI number:: 33532

100. For heavens sake Madam let me crave

First Line:: For heavens sake Madam let me crave
Last Line:: What Love denies at least let Mercy do
DMI number:: 42573

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1. A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

2. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

3. A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy

4. A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree

5. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

6. A restless lover I espied

7. A little herd-groom for he was no better

8. A little herd-groom for he was no better

9. A lover of late was I

10. Ah pity Colin cruel fair

11. All dangers past at length the lovely bride

12. All day I weep my weary woes

13. A | I love a nymph a lack a day

14. Absent from thee I languish still

15. Adieu desert how art thou spent

16. Adieu then o my soul's far better part

17. Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

18. Ah well a day how long must I endure

19. Alexis the pride of the plain

20. Ah Celia leave that cruel art

21. Ah Colin why should thou despair

22. Ah cruel love when will thy torments cease

23. Ah cruel nymph how canst thou punish me

24. Ah Delia see the fatal hour

25. A youth once free and happy now a slave

26. All in vain

27. And will you Clody leave

28. Answer my soul whence this unmanly fear

29. All the flatteries of fate

30. Alone and pensive through deserted meads

31. Amid the vain of Persia was a youth

32. Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams

33. As late to shun the noon day's scorching heat

34. As the stars in darkest night

35. As oft as I behold and see

36. Arise O Phosphorus and bring the day

37. Arise ye winds from your rough caves

38. Around the barren heath I rove

39. As I lay all alone on my bed slumbering

40. As in September when our year resigns

41. As it fell out on a long summer's day

42. At this late hour the world lies hushed below

43. Aurora fair whose rosy cheeks adorn

44. Ask me no longer dear Sir John

45. Asterie why dost thou mourn

46. Be gone fond love I'll dote no more

47. Be sorrow banished give not all your bloom

48. Be thou that art my better part

49. Behind an unfrequented glade

50. Beyond the malice of abusive fate

51. Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears

52. Blind Cupid lay thy bow aside

53. Break break distracted heart there is no cure

54. Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain

55. Break heavy heart and rid me of this pain

56. Believe my sighs my tears my dear

57. Beneath a cooling shade

58. Beneath a silent grove's diverting shade

59. Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade

60. Calvus if tears which we profusely shed

61. Canst thou shepherd canst thou tell

62. By the side of a murmuring stream

63. By flowery banks of tweed whose waters glide

64. By heaven tis scarce ten days ago

65. By heavens I think there are some ages past

66. Burst out my soul in main of tears

67. But that I knew before we met

68. Brightest since your pitying eye

69. Bring back my comfort and return

70. Cease restless thoughts surcharg'd with heaviness

71. Chloe found Amyntas lying

72. Chloe is fled ye nimble pulses cease