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Best Poems about longing (558)

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To —— by John Keats · 46 ♥

The Question by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 42 ♥

Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd by Walt Whitman · 19 ♥

The Wind by Emily Dickinson · 18 ♥

To —. 'Yet look on me' by Percy Bysshe Shelley · 17 ♥

Stanzas: 'In a drear-nighted December' by John Keats · 17 ♥

Sonnet VI by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 17 ♥

You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill At Ease, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · 16 ♥

I did not reach thee by Emily Dickinson · 16 ♥

The Grass by Emily Dickinson · 16 ♥

Dreams by Emily Dickinson · 16 ♥

Before the ice is in the pools by Emily Dickinson · 16 ♥

LITTLE BIRD by Alexander Search · 16 ♥

1 - THE MAD FIDDLER by Fernando Pessoa · 16 ♥

We cover thee, sweet face by Emily Dickinson · 15 ♥

The moon is distant from the sea by Emily Dickinson · 15 ♥

Sonnet XXXIII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 15 ♥

When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame by Walt Whitman · 15 ♥

Sonnet 128 by William Shakespeare · 14 ♥

To a Lady seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall by John Keats · 14 ♥

We shun it ere it comes by Emily Dickinson · 14 ♥

To see her is a picture by Emily Dickinson · 14 ♥

Few get enough,—enough is one by Emily Dickinson · 14 ♥

Desire by Emily Dickinson · 14 ♥

Is it too late to touch you, Dear? by Emily Dickinson · 14 ♥

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