Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

quote by Arthur Wellesley
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Wistful Eyes

So distant are my eyes now,
their focus far away.
Pensive are my eyes now
but at least now I can say.
'I know the pain that love can bring.
Before you, I knew not a thing.'

So cold are my eyes now,
their stare a frozen form.
Bitter is their look now
but at least I've known the storm.
I know the passion love can give.
Before you, how did I live?

Can I soften these eyes of mine now?
Will their wistful look ever leave?
I hardly think that's possible
for the've lost their light.
I grieve.

poem by Edwina Reizer
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

quote by Daniel Boone
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Hence, All You Vain Delights from the Nice Valour

Hence, all you vain delights,
As short as are the nights
Wherein you spend your folly:
There's nought in this life sweet,
If man were wise to see't,
But only melancholy,
O sweetest melancholy!
Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes,
A sigh that piercing mortifies,
A look that's fastened to the ground,
A tongue chained up without a sound;
Fountain-heads, and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves;
Moonlight walks, when all the fowls
Are warmly housed, save bats and owls;
A midnight bell, a parting groan:
These are the sounds we feed upon;
Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley,
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

poem by John Fletcher
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

quote by Charles Baudelaire
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Hark, The Inaudible!

a part dies
a part lives

hear that note
of melancholy
behind every
audible note of mirth

a part dies
a part lives

the thunder melts
floods the earth
hear those tears
the cloud sheds

a part dies
a part lives

blend of melancholy

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poem by Indira Babbellapati
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I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.

quote by Sandra Bullock
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Wistful

The wistful tiger wondered why
Some leaves were making noise...
He watched them slowly moving by
Yet knew they had no choice...
Something alive was very close...
And yet what could it be?
There was no scent that reached his nose...
It stayed a mystery...
Then all at once, as if by chance,
He saw some ants below...
They made those tiny leaves to dance
As onward they must go.
The wistful tiger humbly praised
The strength they all possessed
And marvelled as he stared amazed,
For teamwork made them blessed!
From them, that's how his hunting plans
Formed in his mind that day...
Wise is the mind that understands
That there's a better way!

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poem by Denis Martindale
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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

quote by Sydney Smith
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The Moon And I

I love to walk on a summer night
with the moon above shining bright
with me in a sullen melancholic plight.

The night would be drab
with you out of sight
but I must cast aside
nagging thoughts out of mind
So why must i ponder over yesterday's flight
when here is the moon hunting me with its light?

poem by Elizabeth AcostaKuntz
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

quote by Marsilio Ficino
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

quote by Charles Lamb
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Neglected Gardens

Weeds
from seeds
sown by youthful folly
breed
and feed)
middle-aged melancholy.

poem by Brian Taylor
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A Charm for a Mad Woman

O heavenly med'cine, panacea high,
Restore this raging woman to her health,
More worth than hugest sums of worldly wealth,
Exceedingly more worth than any wealth.
O light of grace and reason from the sky,
Illuminate her mad-conceited mind,
And melancholy cease her wits to blind,
Cease, fearful melancholy, her wits to blind.

poem by Gabriel Harvey
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

quote by Ritchie Blackmore
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The 12,000,000

I'm depressed,
haunted by melancholy
that does not have a reflection
nor cast a shadow.
12,000,000 people live here in Tokyo.
I know I'm not alone.
Others must feel the way
I do.

poem by Richard Brautigan (1976)
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To activate man’s brain

Have a woman to woo
And a child to cuddle.
Fall for some heroine,
Though formidable or forbidden,
To stimulates your sexual thoughts.
Eat enough chocolate.
Avoid the company of melancholic.
Move with the young and women.
Less watching, more doings
Less readings, more writings.
Then your brain will remain active.
14.12.2007

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

quote by Jonathan Coe
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The Poems Everyday In Your Life

it takes a lot of
frustrations,
a little inspiration
but more
of melancholic
clamor
for someone like
you to write
a poem
sometimes only
once a year
or nothing at all
not a poem
even
when they read it
or when
you read it
yourself

it is a matter

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

quote by Oliver Goldsmith
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