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Best Poems about longing (538)

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To —— by John Keats · 42 ♥

The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 38 ♥

Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd by Walt Whitman · 12 ♥

Sonnet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 10 ♥

Canto LXXIX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 10 ♥

1 - THE MAD FIDDLER by Fernando Pessoa · 10 ♥

Her Kitchen Light by Coravn · 9 ♥

Silentium Amoris by Oscar Wilde · 9 ♥

To a Lady seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall by John Keats · 9 ♥

Stanzas: 'In a drear-nighted December' by John Keats · 9 ♥

The Wind by Emily Dickinson · 9 ♥

The moon is distant from the sea by Emily Dickinson · 9 ♥

I many times thought peace had come by Emily Dickinson · 9 ♥

The Miller's Daughter by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 8 ♥

To ——. 'When passion's trance is overpast' by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 8 ♥

Sonnet 51 by William Shakespeare · 8 ♥

To the River —— by Edgar Allan Poe · 8 ♥

I did not reach thee by Emily Dickinson · 8 ♥

Dreams by Emily Dickinson · 8 ♥

Sonnet VI by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 8 ♥

Sonnet XXXV by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 8 ♥

Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City by Walt Whitman · 8 ♥

Inland by boxnl · 7 ♥

You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill At Ease, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 7 ♥

Canto CXX by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 7 ♥

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