Madrigal (To Miss May Forshall)

He shouts amain, he shouts again,
(Her brother, fierce, as bluff King Hal),
"I tell you flat, I shall do that!"
She softly whispers " 'May' for 'shall'!"
He wistful sighed one eventide
(Her friend, that made this Madrigal),
"And shall I kiss you, pretty Miss!"
Smiling she answered " 'May' for 'shall'!"

With eager eyes my reader cries,
"Your friend must be indeed a val-
-uable child, so sweet, so mild!
What do you call her?" "May For shall."

poem by Lewis Carroll
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I Shall Forget You Too

Why would you emerge from
the darkness I built around me
with lambent steps taken grandiloquently
unafraid of the ardent revulsion
I shackled myself into?

When from the shadows you danced
and dragged me into the road
where everything can go -
where we can move, be moved
and leave like how everything
in our star-crossed lives always do

How could I miss this?

And now, in this serpentine road
where the fallen soul was resurrected
the wistful clouds enshrouds me again
to cover the wringing torment of loneliness

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poem by Norman Santos
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Even Flowers Sometimes Question of the Existence!

A tiny flower
sings
her melancholic song
and the tree is quiet as usual;
'Why you make me bloom
to the open space
as I have agoraphobia.
If I wither soon
You shouldn't bring me here,
And I go who knows where? '

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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There was an Old Lady whose folly
Induced her to sit in a holly:
Whereupon by a thorn
Her dress being torn,
She quickly became melancholy.

limerick by Edward Lear from A Book of Nonsense (1846)
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Melancholy is a federation of Hells, based in Paradise.

quote by Octav Bibere
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You need firm care to cure deep melancholy.

Sicilian proverbs
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Madness Infinity

Within the walls of bliss.

Comes a catatonic wave.

Death will not come swift.

Within a melancholic brain.

An opposition to serenity.

Ah, a heart determined coal.

To inflict a lasting misery.

Becomes my everlasting goal.

poem by Aaron Lynn
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

quote by David Guterson
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Eastern bluestars

I look into your eyes and I see

Those wonderful Amsonia tabernaemontana.

One of your eyes is called trustworthiness,

The other one is confidence.

I look into your eyes and I swear that I see your soul.

I look into your uplifting spirit and I see

The sunny sky and the soothing ocean

Of your sunny love and your soothing melancholy.

I look into this melancholic love and I see

My dream of becoming the woman of your dreams.

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poem by Marieta Maglas
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

quote by Benoit Mandelbrot
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Though I am not driver

Though I am not driver
And driver is somebody else
Ask me where to go.

Though this area is
melancholic
Ask me to say a word
that has charming power.

Though you are not
Able to read or write
Ask me to make you
understand who you are.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

quote by George Saintsbury
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A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.

quote by Will Champion
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Wistful Smile

Wistful-pensive (thinking deeply about something, especially in a sad or serious manner) sad: deep in sad thoughts, especially thoughts of something yearned for or lost, or expressing this sad yearning

When all people see in you is a smile
And a bounce in your step, don’t brake
None of them find it worth while
To know the real you, their mistake

I’ve run out of faith, I think
I don’t know what faith feels like anymore
My thoughts are driving me to the brink
Even I’m getting bored

“What’s wrong? ” “Nothing”
“You’re not smiling ‘Jack’”
“Just thinking”
And that’s that

Dancing emotions all around me
Taking me on a roller costar ride
Farther than I can see

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poem by Ben Huff
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The Dying Adrian To His Soul

Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing,
Must we no longer live together?
And dost thou prune thy trembling wing,
To take thy flight thou know'st not whither?
Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly,
Lies all neglected, all forgot:
And pensive, wavering, melancholy,
Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what.

poem by Matthew Prior
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Unfinished Dream

Unfinished dreams
Lay immured in melancholy
-the saddest mystery, of all human folly-
The feeling like fall
I can't seem to lose,
It smells of ancient memories
And undone blues.
So much longed for
Is recalled no more,
It has all came and went
Like a maudlin dream, unspent.
What can they mean,
These fading, unfinished dreams?
Brought upon clouds of blue
Drifting by, always just out of view;

Unfinished dreams
Are memories lined with a purity of love as yet unseen;
Like friends I know, yet don't, and
Friends I wish to know, fearing I won't,

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poem by Smoky Hoss
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

quote by Samuel Johnson
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

quote by Susan Sontag
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

quote by Joseph Howe
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Charity Case

People pensive that I won't amount to anything in life
I hate the fact that people penSive that I am a CHARITY CASE Because I come from the poor family
This is not true
I am very proud of my bacKground
Because it has made me the person I am today
It has made me a stronger person after all the trials. I have visaged
I have full control of where I will end
Although I ddnt choose my beginning

poem by Ben Majola
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