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The weight of this sad time we must obey,Speak what we feel; not what we ought to say.The oldest hath borne most: we that are young,Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

William Shakespeare: ‘King Lear’

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With all my will, but much against my heart,We two now part.My Very Dear,Our solace is, the sad road lies so clear.It needs no art,With faint, averted feetAnd many a tear,In our opposed paths to persevere.

Coventry Patmore: ‘A Farewell’

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We only know the last sad squires ride slowly towards the sea,And a new people takes the land: and still it is not we.

G. K. Chesterton: ‘The Secret People’

I know not why I am so sad; I cannot get out of my head a fairy-tale of olden times.

Heinrich Heine: ‘Die Lorelei’

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All the world is sad and drearyEverywhere I roam,Oh! darkies, how my heart grows weary,Far from the old folks at home.

Stephen Collins Foster: ‘The Old Folks at Home’

And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head.

Robert Herrick: ‘The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad’

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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs,Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs.

John Keats: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

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When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree:Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, remember,And if thou wilt, forget.

Christina Rossetti: ‘When I am Dead’

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If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf,Our lives would grow togetherIn sad or singing weather,Blown fields or flowerful closes,Green pleasure or grey grief.

Algernon Charles Swinburne: ‘A Match’

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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,In looking on the happy autumn-fields,And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: ‘The Princess’

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They are all gone into the world of light,And I alone sit lingering here;Their very memory is fair and bright,And my sad thoughts doth clear.

Henry Vaughan: ‘They Are All Gone’

In her ears the chimeOf full, sad bells brings back her old springtide.

Lionel Johnson: ‘Oxford’

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For all sad words of tongue or pen,The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’

John Greenleaf Whittier: ‘Maud Muller’

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