10+ Sad Poems In English To Express Your Pain

Sadness, or melancholy as we poets like to call it, is what fuels a writer’s fragile soul. In the bereavement of gloomy agony, ink in our pens starts to perish and papers imitate void. If you are someone who romanticises sadness and agony and worships poets like Slyvia Plath, here are some handpicked poems on sadness to strike the chords of your heart. 

Sad Poems In English 

Tulips By Sylvia Plath

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.

Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly

As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.

Forgotten Dreams By John P Read

In a silent world of forgotten dreams,

Where disappointments and heartaches lie.

A world where hopes and dreams have died

And bid their last goodbye.

Ode on Melancholy By John Keats

But when the melancholy fit shall fall

Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,

That fosters the droop-headed flowers all,

And hides the green hill in an April shroud…

The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver By Edna St Vincent Millay

That was in the late fall.

When the winter came,

I'd not a pair of breeches

Nor a shirt to my name.

Falling From Darkness By Anne Powers

Falling from darkness

To a place I don't know,

Everything's moving with no place to go.

I feel so alone and scared.

Sometimes I Get Lonely By Emily B

Sometimes I get lonely

Thinking someday, one day

Never thinking right here, right now.

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A Sad Child By Margaret Atwood

You're sad because you're sad.

It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

Go see a shrink or take a pill,

or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll.

Skeletons By Debbie Grenier

This room is the oldest,

been empty many years

Now all it holds is memories,

of pain, lost innocence, tears.

The Comfort Of Pain By Blake Auden

Live with it

long enough

and pain begins

to feel familiar,

even comforting.

We Wear The Mask By Paul Laurence Dunbar

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile…

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