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These poems beautifully depict the feelings of loss, betrayal, and healing in the face of a broken heart, and continue to resonate with readers around the world. Key Takeaways: Writing short poems about broken hearts allows for an emotional outlet and can aid in finding closure.
- Mad Girl's Love Song. Famous Poem. By Sylvia Plath. "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
- Ebb. Famous Poem. By Edna St. Vincent Millay. I know what my heart is like. Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge. Holding a little pool. Stories 0. Shares 544.
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why. Famous Poem. By Edna St. Vincent Millay. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain.
- To A Young Girl. Famous Poem. By William Butler Yeats. My dear, my dear, I know. More than another. What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother. Stories 0.
- To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell. Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way. To walk and pass our long love’s day.
- The More Loving One by W. H. Auden. Looking up at the stars, I know quite well. That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least.
- Be Near Me by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Be near me now, My tormenter, my love, be near me— At this hour when night comes down, When, having drunk from the gash of sunset, darkness comes.
- Anna, Thy Charms by Robert Burns. Anna, thy charms my bosom fire, And waste my soul with care; But ah! how bootless to admire, When fated to despair! Yet in thy presence, lovely Fair,
Sep 12, 2021 · Below, we introduce our pick of ten of the greatest poems about heartbreak from the sixteenth century to the present day. 1. Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘ They Flee from Me ’. They flee from me that sometime did me seek. With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild and do not remember.
If—. By Rudyard Kipling. (‘Brother Square-Toes’ —Rewards and Fairies) If you can keep your head when all about you. Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Check out this incredible selection of broken heart sad poems to put your feelings into words. Convey your heart’s deepest thoughts with these poems that allow you to express yourself via words. With genuine empathy, these broken heart poems may calm your spirit and mend your heart.
by Maya Angelou. ‘A Kind of Love, Some Say’ by Maya Angelou explores the many different emotions, from love to hate, that relationships can evoke. She also alludes to how complicated these emotions become when abuse is part of the equation. Heartbreak is something that's important in this poem.
