10 Best Famous Love Unrequited Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Love Unrequited poems. This is a select list of the best famous Love Unrequited poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Love Unrequited poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of love unrequited poems.

• All Famous Love Unrequited Poems

 I think that the bitterest sorrow or pain
Of love unrequited, or cold death’s woe, 
Is sweet, compared to that hour when we know
That some grand passion is on the wane.

When we see that the glory, and glow, and grace
Which lent a splendour to night and day, 
Are surely fading, and showing grey
And dull groundwork of the commonplace.

When fond expressions on dull ears fall, 
When the hands clasp calmly without one thrill, 
When we cannot muster by force of will
The old emotions that came at call.

When the dream has vanished we fain would keep, 
When the heart, like a watch, runs out of gear, 
And all the savour goes out of the year, 
Oh, then is the time – if we could – to weep! 

But no tears soften this dull, pale woe; 
We must sit and face it with dry, sad eyes.
If we seek to hold it, the swifter joy flies –
We can only be passive, and let it go.

 I'm sick of embarking in dories
Upon an emotional sea.
I'm wearied of playing Dolores
(A role never written for me).

I'll never again like a cub lick
My wounds while I squeal at the hurt.
No more I'll go walking in public,
My heart hanging out of my shirt.

I'm tired of entwining me garlands
Of weather-worn hemlock and bay.
I'm over my longing for far lands-
I wouldn't give that for Cathay.

I'm through with performing the ballet
Of love unrequited and told.
Euterpe, I tender you vale;
Good-by, and take care of that cold.

I'm done with this burning and giving
And reeling the rhymes of my woes.
And how I'll be making my living,
The Lord in His mystery knows.