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Missing You Poems

Ebb
I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Dying inward from the edge.
Edna St Vincent Millay

I have no Life but this
I have no Life but this—
To lead it here—
Nor any Death—but lest
Dispelled from there—
Nor tie to Earths to come—
Nor [...]

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Lonely poems

My Heart and I
I.
ENOUGH ! we’re tired, my heart and I.
We sit beside the headstone thus,
And wish that name were carved for us.
The moss reprints more tenderly
The hard types of the mason’s knife,
As heaven’s sweet life renews earth’s life
With which we’re tired, my heart and I.
II.
You see we’re tired, my heart and I.
We dealt with [...]

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Famous love poems

How Do I Love Thee?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, [...]

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Sad Poems about Break ups – Classics

After great pain, a formal feeling comes-
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs-
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet, mechanical, go round-
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought-
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone-
This is the Hour of Lead-
Remember, if outlived,
As freezing persons, recollect the Snow-
First-Chill-then Stupor- then [...]

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Poems of Despair

I Do Not Speak
I do not ask for mercy for understanding for peace
And in these heavy days I do not ask for release
I do not ask that suffering shall cease.
I do not pray to God to let me die
To give an ear attentive to my cry
To pause in his marching and not hurry by.
I do [...]

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The End of a Relationship Poem

I wrung my hands under my dark veil…
‘Why are you pale, what makes you reckless?’
Because I have made my loved one drunk
with an astringent sadness.
I’ll never forget. He went out, reeling;
his mouth was twisted, desolate…
I ran downstairs, not touching the banisters,
and followed him as far as the gate.
And shouted, choking: ‘I meant it all
in fun. [...]

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Poetry about breaking up in Tosca

This is a beautiful part of the Opera Tosca that translates into very sad love poetry.
E Lucevan le Stelle
(And the Stars were Shining)
from the Opera Tosca

And the stars were shining…
And the earth smelt sweet…
And the gate creaked…
And a footstep brushed the sand.
She entered, fragrant,
And fell into my arms.
o soft kisses, tender caresses,
While I, all a-quiver,
Unveiled [...]

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Japanese Poems about Breaking Up

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I Used Up This Body
I used up this body
longing
for one who does not come,
A deep valley, now,
what once was my heart.

Izumi Shikibu

My Longing for You
My longing for you-
Too strong to keep within bounds,
At least no one can blame me
When I go to you at night
Along the road of dreams.
Ono No Komachi

No Way to See [...]

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Painful Breakup Poems

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This is a selection of painful breakup poems I’ll be adding to.  Use the navigation at the top to find more poems about breaking up.
One Art
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost [...]

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Poems about breaking up

Find all the poems about breaking up you need on this site – use the
links above to find categories of poems about breaking up: sad, angry, funny, motivational, inspirational, and classic breakup poems!

‘Living with a loss is what matters, and artists and writers show us the many different ways in which this can be done.’

Psychoanalyst [...]

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