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divine faith grief music philosophical suffering religious tears water bird eyes self darkness wind moon hope nature river winter woman sorrow lovers body domestic pain heart dead truth presence rain memory desire sound women social flower childhood tree irish consciousness summer garden fear reality city heaven sleep mother fire beauty beloved past existence mortality light loss freedom death landscape spiritual rose flowers romantic voice earth peace spring soldier birds children dream soul youth stars mind grave power love silence lover

Poems that echo your mood

12 closest matches among poems tagged with any of “tears” or “children” .

Sad Songs Remembered
89%
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Sad Songs Remembered

Philip Bourke Marston

Philip Bourke Marston portrait
13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)
Could I but harmonise one kindly thought
88%
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Could I but harmonise one kindly thought

Hartley Coleridge

Hartley Coleridge portrait
19 September 1796 - 6 January 1849 (~53)
The Open Window
88%
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The Open Window

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portrait
27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)
To an Unborn Pauper Child
88%
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To an Unborn Pauper Child

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy portrait
2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)
Virginibus Puerisque...
88%
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Virginibus Puerisque...

Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger portrait
22 June 1888 - 4 July 1916 (~28)
Nature
88%
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Nature

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portrait
27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)
Tears, Idle Tears
88%
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Tears, Idle Tears

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson portrait
6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)
The Darkling Thrush
88%
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The Darkling Thrush

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy portrait
2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)
Forgetting
88%
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Forgetting

Rose Hartwick Thorpe

Rose Hartwick Thorpe portrait
18 July 1850 - 19 July 1939 (~89)
Tears
88%
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Tears

Lizette Woodworth Reese

Lizette Woodworth Reese portrait
9 January 1856 - 17 December 1935 (~79)
In Tempore Senectutis
88%
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In Tempore Senectutis

Ernest Dowson

Ernest Dowson portrait
2 August 1867 - 23 February 1900 (~33)
Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task
88%
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Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll portrait
27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898 (~66)
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