Poems: sadness

Margaret Atwood  You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shr...  
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Mark van Doren  I wake and hearing it raining. Were I dead, what would I give Lazily to lie here, Lik...  
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Philip Larkin  Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rap...  
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Thom Gunn  One by one they appear in the darkness: a few friends, and a few with historical
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