Suffering
116 poems
Pain of the body, the heart, exile: poems about suffering that put words to what hurts. Read them on Loëly.
'Tis not that Dying hurts us so
Emily Dickinson
A Channel Passage
Rupert Brooke
A death scene
Emily Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
A Hymn
Harriet Monroe
A Lament
Oscar Wilde
A Mother to her sick Child
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
A Partnership
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
A Poem Written In Time Of Trouble By An Irish Priest Who Had Taken Orders In France
Isabella Augusta Gregory
A Question
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Song of Opposites
John Keats
A Vision
Oscar Wilde
Aeropagus
Edith Wharton
After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes
Emily Dickinson
An Ode
Percy Bysshe Shelley
As In The Midst Of Battle There Is Room
George Santayana
As those we love decay, we die in part
James Thomson
Barbury Camp
Charles Sorley
Beauty that Is Never Old
James Weldon Johnson
Book V - While he was thus in two minds a wave caught him
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain
Homère
L'Odyssée
Crown 14
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
Crown Sonnet -
Mary Wroth
Crown Sonnet - How glowworm-like the sun
Mary Wroth
Crown Sonnet - Like to huge clouds
Mary Wroth
Crucified
Khalil Gibran
Death
Helen Hunt Jackson
Florence Nightingale
Emma Lazarus
For ever, Fortune
James Thomson
Hap
Thomas Hardy
He Cries Out Against Love
Isabella Augusta Gregory
Holy Thursday
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
I Sit And Look Out
Walt Whitman
I would I might forget that I am I
George Santayana
In the Country
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Infant Sorrow
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Is this be all
Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Jade
Edith Wharton
Legend
Hart Crane
LIFE
Sarojini Naidu
The golden threshold
London
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Mariana
Christina Rossetti
Memento Mori
Christina Rossetti
Mutation
William Cullen Bryant
Night Wanderers
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
O
Mary Sidney
Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
On Another's Sorrow
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
On Pain
Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
Pain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Questions
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Revelation
William Soutar
Sappho's song
John Lyly
Sleep
James Weldon Johnson
Song - Dearest if I by my deserving
Mary Wroth
Song - I that am one of all most crossed
Mary Wroth
Song - O me the time is come to part
Mary Wroth
Song 2 - All night I weep, all day I cry
Mary Wroth
Song In Spite Of Myself
Countee Cullen
Songs for the People
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Sonnet – Unquiet Grief
Mary Wroth
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus