Poet: Mary C. Ryan
Oh! why so sad this joyful day?
Why weepest thou when all are gay?
Their sweetest songs the birds now sing,
With mirth glad nature's echoes ring,
Vibrating joy from heart to heart
Should bid thy sorrows now depart.
Why still repine? Life is not long.
Come join the happy, joyful throng.
Thus friends oft come and kindly speak,
But sorrow's chain they cannot break;
For round my heart 'tis linked till death
My soul shall free from this sad earth.
The past and present o'er me blend,
I long to see my journey's end;
When silent voices I shall hear
And kiss the lips, still true and dear.
From love's bright garland, one by one,
The fairest flowers soon were gone,
But I've been left, their loss to weep,
My lonely vigils e'er to keep.
Then blame me not, if I am sad,
My careworn heart cannot be glad.
Lone in this world, who could remain
Without e'er feeling lasting pain?
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
Never let the sadness of the day
Carry on and bring you down in every way
Remember the saying this shall pass
Sadness is not meant to last.
Poems Of Encouragement
Poet: Owen Darnell
Do not ask me to remember,
Don’t try to make me understand,
Let me rest and know you’re with me,
Kiss my cheek and hold my hand.
I’m confused beyond your concept,
I am sad and sick and lost.
All I know is that I need you
To be with me at all cost.
Do not lose your patience with me,
Do not scold or curse or cry.
I can’t help the way I’m acting,
Can’t be different though I try.
Just remember that I need you,
That the best of me is gone,
Please don’t fail to stand beside me,
Love me ’til my life is done.
Poetry about Life and Death
Poet: William Freeland
When I shall die - and be it late or soon -
Let merciful memories be my only shroud.
Think me a light veiled in a mourning cloud;
Living to knowledge, like a finished moon -
Though nothing here, to other lands a boon:
Nor let my death give triumph to the proud,
By your weak tears: be happy with the crowd
Who, spite of woe, are seldom out of tune.
Wise in the common instinct, be ye glad:
There's some redemption in the doom of death
That cuts us from new sins - sweet mercy's plan.
Yet, if for me you be sincerely sad,
Do this sweet homage to my valued breath -
Ease the sad burden of some living man!
Poems About Life Struggles
Poet: Arthur Franklin Fuller
The gusty wind moaned sad and chill,
The autumn sky was gray;
But love can warm a longing heart,
To hasten all the way.
Her dear eyes with fulfillment shone -
I clasped her to my breast -
And on her soft, responsive lips
A lover's kiss I pressed.
How fast our happiest hours flash by;
How deep is human bliss;
In hours of woe, let's not forget
The joys we did not miss.
We talked, we laughed, we sung, we dreamed,
Our inner selves communed;
The future full of promise, seemed
To music sweet attuned.
I know not if her throbbing heart
Shall beat again on mine,
Or if her glowing face on me
Will beam with love divine.
I know not if these hungry arms
Her form again shall hold -
Nor if her clinging clasp shall me
Within its circle fold.
Though disappointments strew the way.
And adverse things occur,
Life's crazy patch-work is worth the while.
Through comfort wrought by her.
Disappointment Poems
Poet: Abraham Lincoln
My childhood's home I see again,
And sadden with the view;
And still, as memory crowds my brain,
There's pleasure in it too.
O Memory! thou midway world
'Twixt earth and paradise,
Where things decayed and loved ones lost
In dreamy shadows rise,
And, freed from all that's earthly vile,
Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,
Like scenes in some enchanted isle
All bathed in liquid light.
As dusky mountains please the eye
When twilight chases day;
As bugle-tones that, passing by,
In distance die away;
As leaving some grand waterfall,
We, lingering, list its roar--
So memory will hallow all
We've known, but know no more.
Near twenty years have passed away
Since here I bid farewell
To woods and fields, and scenes of play,
And playmates loved so well.
Where many were, but few remain
Of old familiar things;
But seeing them, to mind again
The lost and absent brings.
The friends I left that parting day,
How changed, as time has sped!
Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,
And half of all are dead.
I hear the loved survivors tell
How nought from death could save,
Till every sound appears a knell,
And every spot a grave.
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
In the book of age, each page is a precious tome,
A journey through the years, our hearts a cozy home.
Don't let the count of numbers bring you down,
For age is but a jewel, in life's radiant crown.
No need for sadness, let's celebrate the years,
With laughter, love, and joyful cheers.
In aging, we find wisdom's steady grace,
A chance to cherish life's enduring embrace.
Remember, in each sunrise and sunset's hue,
The gift of being here, life's canvas anew.
With gratitude and joy, let's take the stage,
For age is a blessing, a story to engage.
So wear your years with pride, let happiness abide,
In each passing moment, let your spirit glide.
For in the tapestry of time, you play a vital part,
Celebrate your age with a joyful heart.
Poems On Aging
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
Worry holds no benefit only shadows often play,
Worry only serves to lead us far astray.
Filling your mind with thoughts of what may never come to pass,
It weaves a web of sorrow, a sadness class.
Yet in its midst, a glimmer of hope shines bright,
Action can transform the darkest night.
Instead of dwelling on what might befall,
Don't let sadness and worry be your downfall.
When worries cloud the sky, take a proactive stance,
Turn sadness into joy, and let life's dance enhance.
With action, we conquer what fear may convey,
And in the face of worry, action can make it go away.
Poems About Worry
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
When it comes to anger, flames burn hot and bright,
But heed this truth, for anger's not quite right.
It hurts those around, like a tempest's fierce gale,
Leaving behind sadness, like a mournful, woeful tale.
With harsh words and actions, it wounds and scars,
Leaving hearts in pieces, like shattered glass jars.
Yet anger need not rule, we can find a way,
Not to create sadness and ruin the day.
Let kindness be your guide, in anger's stead,
Speak with compassion, let empathy spread.
For once anger's unleashed, it's hard to retract,
So choose gentler paths to react.
In the face of frustration, let patience bloom,
Replace anger's thunder with a peaceful, soothing tune.
Choose love over fury, let understanding be your guide,
And in your heart, let forgiveness reside.
Poems About Anger
Poet: Lila R. Munro Tainter
We lie outside in the sunshine
On cots and on lounging chairs,
And a few on canes and crutches
Hobble painfully round in pairs.
Many a window is open.
O'er many the shades are drawn;
We know what that means, we cripples
Who lie in the sunshine and yawn.
We struggle to keep up courage
By gossip and jest and chaff,
Though the laughter a joke arouses
Is only the ghost of a laugh.
We talk of battle and skirmish.
But rarely of home and friends,
A fellow has limitations
And knows where his valor ends.
The slender shapes of the palm-trees
Silhouetted against the blue,
And clumps of the Spanish bayonet,
Rise endlessly on our view
Till the glowing tropic landscape
Is torture, and sad eyes search
With a yearning past all telling
For the sight of maple or birch.
Sitting all day in the sunshine,
Helpless and hopeless, - O God!
And the end of living and loving, -
A grave under foreign sod!
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
Life brings ups and downs
When your up there are no frowns
But when your down sadness you feel
Accept the ups and downs they are real.
Poet: Caleb Davis Bradlee
Quickly he passed away from sight
And left us all in grief,
And at the darkest hour of night
His spirit found relief!
So hard and sad and sharp the blow,
We hardly think it true;
And with our hearts all filled with woe
We feel rebellious too!
But God knows best, his ways are just;
We utter not a word!
We cling to him with perfect trust,
Our Maker and our Lord!
Farewell, beloved, a long farewell;
We'll miss you day by day,
And God alone our grief can tell,
And he its pain will stay!
Safe now you are with dear ones gone!
What greetings you have found!
And, in the higher life new born,
United anthems sound!
We'll meet again, all free from care,
'Where sickness is unknown ;
We'll join again in praise and prayer
Around the Father's throne!
Christian Poems
Poet: Caleb Davis Bradlee
Sad are the hearts met here to-day,
And heavy is our grief;
Be thou, God, the light and way
Unto a sure relief.
In prime of life, at manhood's hour,
This heavy blow has come;
And parents dear did feel thy power,
When thou didst call him home.
They loved him much, they hardly know
Why they should give him up!
But wilt thou, Father, gently show
How they shall drink the cup
And let them look right through the gate
That leads to Thee above;
And may they sec his royal state
All hallowed by thy love.
And guardian angel let him be
Over their home and heart;
May he by thine all-wise decree,
A daily grace impart.
Let father, mother, brothers dear,
All bow unto thy will;
And calm each thought, and stay each fear,
And speak thy "Peace, be still! "
God, at last, unite us all
Where no more tears are shed;
And let thy love upon us fall;
May we by grace be fed.
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
When you feel sad
Think of the times when you were glad
Don't dwell on sadness
Change your attitude and your focus
Attitude Poems
Poet: Alfred Tennyson
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
In looking on the happy autumn-fields.
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail.
That brings our friends up from the under-world;
Sad as the last which reddens over one
That sinks with all we love below the verge;
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds
To dying ears, when unto dying eyes
The casement slowly grows a glimmering square:
So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.
Dear as remembered kisses after death.
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned
On lips that are for others; deep as love.
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret, -
O death in life, the days that are no more.
Poems About Regret
Poet: Susan Coolidge
Every day is a fresh beginning.
Every morn is the world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and sinning.
Here is a beautiful hope for you -
A hope for me and a hope for you.
All the past things are past and over.
The tasks are done and the tears are shed;
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled.
Are healed with the healing which night has shed.
Yesterday now is a part of forever.
Bound up in a sheaf, which God holds tight;
With glad days and sad days and bad days which never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and their blight.
Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful night.
Let them go, since we cannot relive them,
Cannot undo, and cannot atone:
God in His mercy, receive, forgive them;
Only the new days are our own.
Today is ours, and today alone.
Here are the skies all burnished brightly.
Here is the spent Earth all reborn.
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
To face the sun and to share with the morn
In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn.
Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain.
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning.
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain.
Take heart with the day, and begin again.
Poems About New Beginnings
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
God tells us to find joy in the day
Even if you feel sad in some way
Joy can be found in your heart
By doing this it will set you apart.
Poet: John Greenleaf Whittier
My heart was heavy, for its trust had been
Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong;
So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men.
One summer Sabbath day I strolled among
The green mounds of the village burial-place;
Where, pondering how all human love and hate
Find one sad level; and how, soon or late.
Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face.
And cold hands folded over a still heart.
Pass the green threshold of our common grave.
Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart.
Awed for myself, and pitying my race.
Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave.
Swept all my pride away, and, trembling, I forgave!
Forgiveness Poems
Poet: Catherine Pulsifer
To say goodbye makes me feel so sad
I wish you didn't have to go
But when I see you again, oh, I will be so glad
Sadness will leave and happiness will show.
Goodbye Poems
Poet: Ida Goldsmith Morris
It takes so little to make us sad;
Just a slighting word or a doubting sneer,
Just a scornful smile on some lips held dear,
And our footsteps lag, though the goal seemed near,
And we lose the courage and hope we had -
So little it takes to make us sad.
It takes so little to make us glad;
Just the cheering clasp of a friendly hand,
Just a word from one who can understand
And we finish the task we long had planned,
And we lose the doubt and the fear we had -
So little it takes to make us glad.
Poems About Fear
Poet: G. W. Warder
When the twilight shades are falling
And the even-tide is near,
Comes the voice of memory calling,
Soft as falling of a tear;
And from shadows dim and fleeting
Come the saddest songs and greeting,
Yet the sweetest that I hear.
And I dream the olden dreaming
In the gloaming by the way,
And life's rosy-tinted gleaming
Seems to crown the closing day;
And my heart and brain and being
Wrapt in visions I am seeing,
Sad, yet brightest that I may!
Oh, our saddest thoughts are sweetest!
For they span a broader sea,
Soaring eagle-winged and fleetest
O'er the world of memory.
Hope crowned, heavenward and untiring,
To the good and loved aspiring,
They are calling unto thee.
Like the murmur of bright rivers
In the Islands of the Blest,
Where the solemn music quivers
Like a birdling in its nest,
Come the smiles of those who love us
From the far-off heavens above us,
And our saddest songs are best.
