As Long As There Is Love, There Will Be Grief.

As long as there is love, there will be grief.

— Heidi Priebe

poetry recommendations for march

If You Knew by Ellen Bass

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

Spring by Mary Oliver

The Return by Mary Oliver

Green, Green is My Sister’s House by Mary Oliver

Black Telephone by Richard Siken

Proverbs and Songs by Antonio Machado

this night - for you by Halina Poswiatowska

a splinter of my imagination by Halina Poswiatowska

in your perfect fingers by Halina Poswiatowska

Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics

Every Day You Play…. by Pablo Neruda

first thought after seeing you smile by Warsan Shire

Love by Czeslaw Milosz

Insomniac by Sylvia Plath

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poems about unrequited love

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think I should have loved you presently by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Appeal by Anne Brontë 

The Side Effects of Eating Too Many Clementines by Alessia Di Cesare

Doesn’t every Poet Write a Poem About Unrequited Love by Mary Oliver

I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Minstrel Man by Langston Hughes

The Want of You by Angelina Weld Grimké

I’d Like to Live With You by Marina Tsvetaeva 

A Cry by Sara Teasdale

Wind and Window Flower by Robert Frost 

I loved you by Alexander Pushkin

The Moon and the Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath

We Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye by Anna Akhmatova

from “An Attempt at Jealousy” by Marina Tsvetaeva

Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy

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"The problem of pain is that I can not feel my father's, and he can not feel mine. This, I suppose, is also the essential mercy of pain."

Eula Biss, The Pain Scale

the reader's urge to reread the books that took away your breath as you're reading them the first time

She is a 10 but she lives in disbelief.