Poem Theme: Grief / sadness / melancholy - Blacklight Search Results

First Line:: All fly the unhappy and I all would fly
Last Line:: For sure the soul his wisdom made his power continues still
Author:: Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Speculation) & Anne Wharton [nee Lee] (Absolute)
DMI number:: 3879

40. All gloomy thoughts and pining care

First Line:: All gloomy thoughts and pining care
Last Line:: In sacred harmony combine
DMI number:: 21069

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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

44. Adieu eternally adieu thrice happy train

First Line:: Adieu eternally adieu thrice happy train
Last Line:: But at his set a bigger blaze of rays adorns his head
DMI number:: 11199

45. 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

46. Adieu vain mirth and noisy joys

First Line:: Adieu vain mirth and noisy joys
Last Line:: Thy steps adieu vain world adieu
Author:: William Broome (Absolute)
DMI number:: 15405

47. 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

48. Ah Raleigh when thou didst thy breath resign

First Line:: Ah Raleigh when thou didst thy breath resign
Last Line:: No poisonous monarch on thy earth shall live
DMI number:: 42703

49. 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

50. Ah what advice can I receive

First Line:: Ah what advice can I receive
Last Line:: Of cutting through a flame
DMI number:: 44048

51. Ah what avails the lengthening mead

First Line:: Ah what avails the lengthening mead
Last Line:: Along the unhallowed shade
Author:: Fulke Greville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 28328

52. Alas her gentle nature was not made

First Line:: Alas her gentle nature was not made
Last Line:: To buffet with adversity
Author:: Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 20052

53. Alas I have no words to tell my grief

First Line:: Alas I have no words to tell my grief
Last Line:: We groan but cannot speak in greater pain
DMI number:: 39655

54. Alas my aching heart

First Line:: Alas my aching heart
Last Line:: And sounded grace on all their strings
Author:: Isaac Watts (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27273

55. Alas poor country

First Line:: Alas poor country
Last Line:: Dying or ere they sicken
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37398

56. Alas poor Poll my Indian talker dies

First Line:: Alas poor Poll my Indian talker dies
Last Line:: And my tomb proves my mistress loved me well
Author:: Thomas Creech (Absolute)
DMI number:: 6699

57. Alas that ever this day we did see

First Line:: Alas that ever this day we did see
Last Line:: That ever he forced king Edward to die
DMI number:: 37013

58. Alexis shunned his fellow swains

First Line:: Alexis shunned his fellow swains
Last Line:: He bowed obeyed and died
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 808

59. 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

60. Affection bids me now to weep

First Line:: Affection bids me now to weep
Last Line:: May teach us where to seek for rest
DMI number:: 9637

61. Against ill chances men are ever merry

First Line:: Against ill chances men are ever merry
Last Line:: But heaviness foreruns the good event
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19975

62. Ah cease this kind persuasive strain

First Line:: Ah cease this kind persuasive strain
Last Line:: Will heave one tuneful sigh and sooth my hovering shade
Author:: William Mason (Absolute)
DMI number:: 27947

63. 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

64. 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

65. Ah cruel day must we for ever grieve

First Line:: Ah cruel day must we for ever grieve
Last Line:: Then think his soul informed her body too
DMI number:: 42880

66. 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

67. 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

68. 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

69. Ah endless source of woe ah fatal smart

First Line:: Ah endless source of woe ah fatal smart
Last Line:: Heal heal a broken heart and bid me rise and live
Author:: Richard Daniel (Absolute)
DMI number:: 26474

70. A young man that's in love with one that's wed

First Line:: A young man that's in love with one that's wed
Last Line:: Will giggle it out to all men
DMI number:: 42929

71. 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

72. All hope of succour but from thee is past

First Line:: All hope of succour but from thee is past
Last Line:: Which on each other are like waves renewed
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18671

73. All in vain

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

74. All nature mourns the skies relent in showers

First Line:: All nature mourns the skies relent in showers
Last Line:: And vanquished nature seems to charm no more
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 22693

75. And will you Clody leave

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

76. Angels and ministers of grace defend us

First Line:: Angels and ministers of grace defend us
Last Line:: With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 37361

77. Another shape appears

First Line:: Another shape appears
Last Line:: But hath his candles to prolong his toil
Author:: Thomas Sackville (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13839

78. 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

79. Anthis and Cete combed thier flowing hair

First Line:: Anthis and Cete combed thier flowing hair
Last Line:: And thus increase the terrors of the night
Author:: William Diaper (Absolute)
DMI number:: 36353

80. Amintas that true hearted swain

First Line:: Amintas that true hearted swain
Last Line:: Which I demand of thee of thee | Which I demand &c
Author:: Aphra Behn (Absolute)
DMI number:: 2570

81. An ancient forest in Thessalia grows

First Line:: An ancient forest in Thessalia grows
Last Line:: He sat himself and kept her still in sight
Author:: John Dryden (Absolute)
DMI number:: 11237

82. An awful gloom

First Line:: An awful gloom
Last Line:: Indent his furrowed brows
Author:: Bevil Higgons (Absolute)
DMI number:: 19335

83. All silent awhile be each breeze

First Line:: All silent awhile be each breeze
Last Line:: When the eye shall behold him no more
DMI number:: 31953

84. 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

85. All we can see that's excellent and fair

First Line:: All we can see that's excellent and fair
Last Line:: Scarcely to be repaired though William's still behind
DMI number:: 42887

86. All we gain

First Line:: All we gain
Last Line:: By grief is but the licence to complain
DMI number:: 41095

87. And canst thou minister to a mind diseased

First Line:: And canst thou minister to a mind diseased
Last Line:: Which weighs upon the heart
Author:: William Shakespeare (Absolute)
DMI number:: 18472

88. And is he dead is he already dead

First Line:: And is he dead is he already dead
Last Line:: Henry Britannia's equal hope and pride
DMI number:: 44590

89. And must I go and must I be no more

First Line:: And must I go and must I be no more
Last Line:: I'd even lose myself since I've lost thee
Author:: John Norris (Absolute)
DMI number:: 33687

90. And none can be unhappy who

First Line:: And none can be unhappy who
Last Line:: Though ever so ill when he shall not be so
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Confident)
DMI number:: 5538

91. Allow my melancholy thoughts this privilege

First Line:: Allow my melancholy thoughts this privilege
Last Line:: To let them brood in secret over my sorrows
Author:: Nicholas Rowe (Absolute)
DMI number:: 21079

92. 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

93. Alone walkyng in thought plainyng

First Line:: Alone walkyng in thought plainyng
Last Line:: In such pore estate doe I endure
Author:: Geoffrey Chaucer (Confident)
DMI number:: 37310

94. Along their face

First Line:: Along their face
Last Line:: And prone to earth was hung their languid head
Author:: Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:: 12898

95. Although my cares do hang upon my soul

First Line:: Although my cares do hang upon my soul
Last Line:: Shall shake the sullen weight off
Author:: Henry Glapthorne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13847

96. And now with care I can record those days

First Line:: And now with care I can record those days
Last Line:: To greener years which might endure the smart
Author:: George Gascoigne (Absolute)
DMI number:: 13159

97. And still I tried each fickle art

First Line:: And still I tried each fickle art
Last Line:: And so for him will I
Author:: Oliver Goldsmith (Absolute)
DMI number:: 38011

98. And where misfortunes great and many are

First Line:: And where misfortunes great and many are
Last Line:: Life grows a burden and not worth our care
DMI number:: 14172

99. Although your berlin always moves in state

First Line:: Although your berlin always moves in state
Last Line:: An easy fortune makes you thus uneasy
DMI number:: 27687

100. Amazed he stands nor voice nor body stirs

First Line:: Amazed he stands nor voice nor body stirs
Last Line:: For light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb
DMI number:: 41062

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1. A dame the abbey's tomb contain

2. A faithful swain whom love had taught to sing

3. A flood of tenderness comes over my soul

4. A beam of comfort like the moon through clouds

5. A careful nymph with careless grief oppressed

6. A chilling damp invades my trembling heart

7. A common theme a flattering muse may fire

8. A heavy melancholy hangs on his mind

9. A hopeless flame did Corydon destroy

10. A kind of weight hangs heavy on my heart

11. A sudden damp has seized my spirits

12. A tear bedews my Delia's eye

13. A thousand charms if Lesbia boast

14. A thousand thoughts prey on my tortured soul

15. A man triumphant is a monstrous sight

16. A peasant past his climacteric year

17. A pensive sadness overwhelms my soul

18. A poore soule sat sighing under a sicamore tree

19. A shepherd boy all in an evening fair

20. A shower of tears flowed down her lovely face

21. A soul exasperated in ill falls out

22. A prison is a house of care

23. A restless lover I espied

24. A rising storm of passion shook her breast

25. A lass that was loaden with care

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

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

28. A lovely nymph in pensive mood

29. A lover of late was I

30. Ah how tedious is the day

31. Ah me that ever I was born

32. Ah me that restless bliss so soon should fly

33. Ah me what pangs a tender heart must feel

34. Ah pity Colin cruel fair

35. All around

36. All dangers past at length the lovely bride

37. All day I weep my weary woes

38. All days to me henceforth are equal

39. All fly the unhappy and I all would fly

40. All gloomy thoughts and pining care

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

42. Absent from thee I languish still

43. Adieu desert how art thou spent

44. Adieu eternally adieu thrice happy train

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

46. Adieu vain mirth and noisy joys

47. Adieu ye walls that guard my cruel fair

48. Ah Raleigh when thou didst thy breath resign

49. Ah well a day how long must I endure

50. Ah what advice can I receive

51. Ah what avails the lengthening mead

52. Alas her gentle nature was not made

53. Alas I have no words to tell my grief

54. Alas my aching heart

55. Alas poor country

56. Alas poor Poll my Indian talker dies

57. Alas that ever this day we did see

58. Alexis shunned his fellow swains

59. Alexis the pride of the plain

60. Affection bids me now to weep

61. Against ill chances men are ever merry

62. Ah cease this kind persuasive strain

63. Ah Celia leave that cruel art

64. Ah Colin why should thou despair

65. Ah cruel day must we for ever grieve

66. Ah cruel love when will thy torments cease

67. Ah cruel nymph how canst thou punish me

68. Ah Delia see the fatal hour

69. Ah endless source of woe ah fatal smart

70. A young man that's in love with one that's wed

71. A youth once free and happy now a slave