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Famous Sad Love Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Sad Love poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sad love poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sad love poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Burns, Robert
...O THOU pale orb that silent shines
 While care-untroubled mortals sleep!
Thou seest a wretch who inly pines.
 And wanders here to wail and weep!
 With woe I nightly vigils keep,
Beneath thy wan, unwarming beam;
 And mourn, in lamentation deep,
How life and love are all a dream!


I joyless view thy rays adorn
 The faintly-marked, distant hill;
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