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The term "sarah farhda despair" has been searched for 14 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on July 8th, 2005.
1. Sonnet XXVI: I Ever Love - written by Michael Drayton
Read 984 times on Poetry Connection.
To Despair
I ever love where never hope appears,
Yet hope draws on my never-hoping care,
And my life's hope would die, but for despair;
My never-certain joy breeds ever-certain fears;
Uncertain dread gives wings unto my hope,
Yet my... (Read full poem)
2. Do Not Accept - written by Yehuda Amichai
Read 1343 times on Poetry Connection.
Do not accept these rains that come too late.
Better to linger. Make your pain
An image of the desert. Say it's said
And do not look to the west. Refuse
To surrender. Try this year too
To live alone in the long summer,
Eat your drying bread,... (Read full poem)
3. In Black Despair - written by Czeslaw Milosz
From New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001.
Published in 2001.
Read 1140 times on Poetry Connection.
In grayish doubt and black despair,
I drafted hymns to the earth and the air,
pretending to joy, although I lacked it.
The age had made lament redundant.
So here's the question -- who can answer it --
Was he a brave man or a hypocrite?(Read full poem)
4. 229. Song—Anna, thy Charms - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1788.
Read 857 times on Poetry Connection.
ANNA, thy charms my bosom fire,
And waste my soul with care;
But ah! how bootless to admire,
When fated to despair!
Yet in thy presence, lovely Fair,
To hope may be forgiven;
For sure ’twere impious to despair
So much in sight of... (Read full poem)
5. Poem: Phedre - written by Oscar Wilde
From Poems.
Published in 1881.
Read 1087 times on Poetry Connection.
Poem: Phedre
(To Sarah Bernhardt)
How vain and dull this common world must seem
To such a One as thou, who should'st have talked
At Florence with Mirandola, or walked
Through the cool olives of the Academe:
Thou should'st have gathered... (Read full poem)
6. Sympathy - written by Emily Bronte
Read 2066 times on Poetry Connection.
There should be no despair for you
While nightly stars are burning,
While evening pours its silent dew
And sunshine gilds the morning.
There should be no despair - though tears
May flow down like a river:
Are not the best beloved of... (Read full poem)
7. 309. Verses on Captain Grose - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1790.
Read 1011 times on Poetry Connection.
KEN ye aught o’ Captain Grose?—Igo, and ago,
If he’s amang his friends or foes?—Iram, coram, dago.
Is he to Abra’m’s bosom gane?—Igo, and ago,
Or haudin Sarah by the wame?—Iram, coram dago.
Is he south... (Read full poem)
8. For Anne Gregory - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
Published in 1933.
Read 3213 times on Poetry Connection.
'Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.'
'But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men... (Read full poem)
10. My Chapel - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes for My Rags.
Read 418 times on Poetry Connection.
In idle dream with pipe in hand
I looked across the Square,
And saw the little chapel stand
In eloquent despair.
A ruin of the War it was,
A dreary, dingy mess:
It worried me a lot because
My hobby's happiness.
The shabby Priest... (Read full poem)
11. The Man Who Was Away - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
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The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow,
She told the lawyer man her tale in tones of deepest woe.
She said, "My husband took to drink for pains in his inside,
And never drew a sober breath from then until he died.... (Read full poem)
12. Still - written by Wislawa Szymborska
Read 1189 times on Poetry Connection.
In sealed box cars travel
names across the land,
and how far they will travel so,
and will they ever get out,
don't ask, I won't say, I don't know.
The name Nathan strikes fist against wall,
the name Isaac, demented, sings,
the name Sarah calls out... (Read full poem)
13. To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything - written by Robert Herrick
Read 998 times on Poetry Connection.
Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be;
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free,
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.
Bid... (Read full poem)
15. The Definition Of Love - written by Andrew Marvell
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My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.
Magnanimous Despair alone
Could show me so divine a thing,
Where feeble Hope could ne'er have flown
But vainly flapped its tinsel... (Read full poem)
16. The Witch - written by William Butler Yeats
From Responsibilities.
Published in 1914.
Read 1861 times on Poetry Connection.
Toil and grow rich,
What's that but to lie
With a foul witch
And after, drained dry,
To be brought
To the chamber where
Lies one long sought
With despair?(Read full poem)
17. Reply to Some Verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq. - written by Lord Byron
Read 458 times on Poetry Connection.
Why, Pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain,
Why thus in despair do you fret?
For months you may try, yet, believe me, a sigh
Will never obtain a coquette.
Would you teach her to love? for a time seem to rove;
At first she may frown in a... (Read full poem)
18. The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love - written by William Butler Yeats
From The Wind Among The Reeds.
Published in 1899.
Read 2243 times on Poetry Connection.
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away.(Read full poem)
19. When Helen Lived - written by William Butler Yeats
From Responsibilities.
Published in 1914.
Read 1563 times on Poetry Connection.
We have cried in our despair
That men desert,
For some trivial affair
Or noisy, insolent sport,
Beauty that we have won
From bitterest hours;
Yet we, had we walked within
Those topless towers
Where Helen waked with her boy,
Had given but as the... (Read full poem)
20. Walls - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1896.
Read 1074 times on Poetry Connection.
Without consideration, without pity, without shame
they have built great and high walls around me.
And now I sit here and despair.
I think of nothing else: this fate gnaws at my mind;
for I had many things to do outside.
Ah why did I not pay... (Read full poem)
21. A Reasonable Affliction - written by Matthew Prior
Read 912 times on Poetry Connection.
On his death-bed poor Lubin lies:
His spouse is in despair:
With frequent sobs, and mutual cries,
They both express their care.
A different cause, says Parson Sly,
The same effect may give:
Poor Lubin fears that he may die;
His wife,... (Read full poem)
22. The End - written by D.H. Lawrence
Read 2577 times on Poetry Connection.
If I could have put you in my heart,
If but I could have wrapped you in myself,
How glad I should have been!
And now the chart
Of memory unrolls again to me
The course of our journey here, before we had to part.
And oh, that... (Read full poem)
23. To One Persuading A Lady To Marriage - written by Katherine Philips
Published in 1664.
Read 1014 times on Poetry Connection.
Forbear, bold youth; all 's heaven here,
And what you do aver
To others courtship may appear,
'Tis sacrilege to her.
She is a public deity;
And were 't not very odd
She should dispose herself to be
A petty household god?
First make the sun... (Read full poem)
24. Song. Murdering Beauty - written by Thomas Carew
Read 522 times on Poetry Connection.
I'LL gaze no more on her bewitching face,
Since ruin harbours there in every place ;
For my enchanted soul alike she drowns
With calms and tempests of her smiles and frowns.
I’ll love no more those cruel eyes of hers,
Which, pleased or... (Read full poem)
25. HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL - written by Robert Herrick
Read 404 times on Poetry Connection.
You may vow I'll not forget
To pay the debt
Which to thy memory stands as due
As faith can seal it you.
--Take then tribute of my tears;
So long as I have fears
To prompt me, I shall ever
Languish and look, but thy return see never.
Oh then... (Read full poem)
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