Sad Poetry is the reflection of a broken heart, silent tears, and unspoken emotions. It expresses pain, loneliness, and the sorrow of lost love. Each verse carries the weight of memories, broken promises, and unhealed scars. Sad poetry is not just about grief—it is about the depth of emotions we often fail to express in words. It becomes a voice for the wounded heart, a comfort for the soul, and a reminder that pain is also a part of love and life. Read and share top 20 sad poetry

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🖤 Top 20 Sad Poetry (English)

10. My heart beats, but it has no rhythm of joy.

1. “When You Are Old” – W. B. Yeats>

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book…

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2. “Remember” – Christina Rossetti>

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land…
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3. “Tears, Idle Tears” – Alfred Lord Tennyson>

 Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair…

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4. “A Dream Within a Dream” – Edgar Allan Poe>

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

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5. “The Raven” – Edgar Allan Poe>

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain...

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6. “Dover Beach” – Matthew Arnold>

The world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams...

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7. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” – Emily Dickinson>

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me…

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8. “Annabel Lee” – Edgar Allan Poe>

But we loved with a love that was more than love,
I and my Annabel Lee…

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9. “O Captain! My Captain!” – Walt Whitman>

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done…

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10. “Sonnet 30” – William Shakespeare>

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past…

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11. “The Cry of the Children” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning>

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?

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12. “The Darkling Thrush” – Thomas Hardy>

I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-gray…

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13. “On the Death of Anne Brontë” – Charlotte Brontë>

There’s little joy in life for me,
And little terror in the grave…

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14. “A Broken Appointment” – Thomas Hardy>

You did not come,
And marching Time drew on…

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15. “The Night Wind” – Emily Brontë>

Have none but we two known the pain
Of loving in vain?

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16. “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” – Emily Dickinson>

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs…

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17. “In Memoriam A.H.H.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson>

’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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18. “The Forsaken” – Duncan Campbell Scott>

Once she had a lover fair,
But he failed her, and her despair…

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19. “The End” – A. E. Housman>

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.

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20. “The Parting” – Michael Drayton>

Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part;
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me.---