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Gone Fishin'
by Delmar Pepper

I've finished life's chores assigned to me,
So put me on a boat headed out to sea.
Please send along my fishing pole
For I've been invited to the fishin' hole.

Where every day is a day to fish,
To fill your heart with every wish.
Don't worry, or feel sad for me,
I'm fishin' with the Master of the sea.


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The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse
by Dorothy Parker

And now I have another lad!
No longer need you tell
How all my nights are slow and sad
For loving you too well.

His ways are not your wicked ways,
He's not the like of you.
He treads his path of reckoned days,
A sober man, and true.


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A Dedication
by Robert Burns

Expect na, sir, in this narration,
A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication,
To roose you up, an' ca' you guid,
An' sprung o' great an' noble bluid,
Because ye're surnam'd like His Grace-
Perhaps related to the race:
Then, when I'm tir'd-and sae are ye,
Wi' mony a fulsome, sinfu' lie,
Set up a face how I stop short,
For fear your modesty be hurt.

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Tears, Idle Tears
by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;

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Realisation
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Hers was a lonely, shadowed lot;
Or so the unperceiving thought,
Who looked no deeper than her face,
Devoid of chiselled lines of grace –
No farther than her humble grate,
And wondered how she bore her fate.

Yet she was neither lone nor sad;
So much of love her spirit had,
She found an ever-flowing spring

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Drops of Dew
by Nyx Grace

Drops of Dew
when the darkness fades
the rays of hope
gently kiss my skin,
I open my eys to notice
the glistening rose
in my reach within.

the drops of dew
that she refuses to let go,

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What am I to You?
by Nyx Grace

maybe I will be the moon
to your ocean
silenty looking after you,
casting my gentle spell.
in the end, love you enough,
to let you go,
as you run towards the sand
to be together forevermore,
but first came to me
to be the tide for you.

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For You
by Ziggy Ziggy

For You
-Ziggy

For you, I gave up everything,
Left my dreams, my peace, my wings.
I thought your love would be my guide,
But you left me standing here, alone inside.

I gave you my heart, I gave you my soul,
Tried to make you happy, to make you whole.

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Rose-Colored Glass
by Jillian Mueller

Love for you stings, sharp and unwanted—
not by your actions,
but the quiet, aching knowing
you’ll never be mine to hold.

Your absence echoes through the silence,
but when you return,
time holds its breath.
I replay our moments—
a broken record,

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Adrift in Your Indifference
by Jillian Mueller

I trace the cracks within myself,
yet find none upon you—
Your skin, a barren canvas,
untouched by time or flaw,
While mine, a weathered map,
etched by stares that linger too long.

You label yourself two-faced,
but I only set eyes on one
side of the wall.

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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (49 poems about Sad)
    5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 / Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin
  • Victor James Daley
    Victor James Daley (20 poems about Sad)
    Creeve Roe] (5 September 1858 – 29 December 1905 / Navan, County Armagh, Ireland
  • Dorothy Parker
    Dorothy Parker (20 poems about Sad)
    22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967 / Long Branch / New Jersey
  • Edmund Spenser
    Edmund Spenser (17 poems about Sad)
    1552 - 13 January 1599 / London / England
  • William Lisle Bowles
    William Lisle Bowles (9 poems about Sad)
    1762 - 1850 / England
  • Henry Vaughan
    Henry Vaughan (8 poems about Sad)
    1621 - 23 April 1695 / Brecknockshire, Wales
  • William Allingham
    William Allingham (6 poems about Sad)
    19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889 / Donegal / Ireland
  • Nâzım Hikmet
    Nâzım Hikmet (6 poems about Sad)
    1902-1963 / Turkey
  • James Joyce
    James Joyce (6 poems about Sad)
    2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941 / Dublin / Ireland
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    George Canning (5 poems about Sad)
    11 April 1770 – 8 August 1827 / London, England
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