Famous Sorrowfully Poems by Famous Poets
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...A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease,
In a forest beneath the branches of the tall pine trees -
And his big brown eyes with tears seemed dim,
While one soft arm rested on a huge dog close by him.
And only four summers had passed o'er his baby head,
And, poor little child, his twin brother was dead,
Who had died but a few days before,
And now he must play alone, for...Read more of this...
by
McGonagall, William Topaz
...another night came upon mankind.
Then she was quick to return, ready for terrible wrack,
Grendel’s mother, venturing sorrowfully.
Death had seized her son, and the war-hatred of the Weders.
The horrible woman avenged her son, killed a warrior
audaciously. There the life of Æschere was torn out,
an aged and wise counselor. Neither were they allowed,
when the morning arrived, the Danish people
to burn the death-weary with brands,
nor to load it upon the pyre, the belo...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...flowers,
Only beloved of birds and butterflies.
My friends were duped, my favorers deceived;
But sometimes, musing sorrowfully there,
That flowered wreck has seemed to me so fair
I scarce regret the temple unachieved.
III
For there were nights . . . my love to him whose brow
Has glistened with the spoils of nights like those,
Home turning as a conqueror turns home,
What time green dawn down every street uprears
Arches of triumph! He has drained as well
Joy's ...Read more of this...
by
Seeger, Alan
...pass by many sights.
The tatter'd scarlet banners there
Right soon will leave the spear-heads bare.
Those six knights sorrowfully bear
In all their heaumes some yellow hair....Read more of this...
by
Morris, William
...the furry girl
Walks quickly to the tub, and throwing off
Her stained gown, eels into the water.
The other watches her sorrowfully; then,
Without haste, as one would strangle an owl,
She flicks the wheel of the chariot - around
Which the black world bends ...
without thrones or gates, without faith,
warmth or light for any of its creatures;
where even the children go mad - and
As though unwound on a scroll, the picture
Of Everyman's murder winks back at God.
Farther away ...Read more of this...
by
Patchen, Kenneth
...actory
And surety will I have, ere that thou pace,* *go
Thy body for to yielden in this place."
Woe was the knight, and sorrowfully siked;* *sighed
But what? he might not do all as him liked.
And at the last he chose him for to wend,* *depart
And come again, right at the yeare's end,
With such answer as God would him purvey:* *provide
And took his leave, and wended forth his way.
He sought in ev'ry house and ev'ry place,
Where as he hoped for to finde grace,
To learne what t...Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
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