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Best Poems about despair (37)

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To Mary Shelley (1) by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 38 ♥

It was not death, for I stood up by Emily Dickinson · 38 ♥

I lived on dread; to those who know by Emily Dickinson · 38 ♥

Despairing Cries by Walt Whitman · 35 ♥

Sonnet 140 by William Shakespeare · 34 ♥

'Such hope, as is the sick despair of good' by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 33 ♥

There's a certain slant of light by Emily Dickinson · 32 ♥

XXIX - My weary life, that lives unsatisfied by Fernando Pessoa · 32 ♥

IX - Oh to be idle loving idleness! by Fernando Pessoa · 30 ♥

To Edward Williams by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 29 ♥

Stanza, written at Bracknell by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 29 ♥

Griefs by Emily Dickinson · 29 ♥

Debris by Walt Whitman · 28 ♥

Fifty Minutes by Znmin · 26 ♥

The Skipping Rope by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 25 ♥

A Word dropped careless on a Page by Emily Dickinson · 25 ♥

The difference between despair by Emily Dickinson · 23 ♥

To Hope by John Keats · 19 ♥

The clock says four and the air is thin by thirdshiftlina · 2 ♥

Gideon's Dust by Violet V. · 1 ♥

The Fence That Wasn't Mine by Adrian B.

Unwelcome Guests by busrx

Winter of '97 by clippedtrust

Water Clock by Owen Madden

Aftertaste by heat_sharper

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