2006-12-30 10:53:43 · 9 answers · asked by vera lynn 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
preferably by a not-so-well-known author?
2006-12-30 10:56:31 · update #1
http://barkowitz.wordpress.com/tag/poems-by-theme/melancholy/
I don't know who this guy is, but the poems are decent.
2006-12-30 12:04:50 · answer #1 · answered by Globetrotter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try some stuff by T. S. Eliot or Alvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa). Tabacaria (The Tobacco Shop) is particularly beautiful. George Monteiro's English translations of Fernando Pessoa's poetry are excellent.
2006-12-31 05:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by lechatdeluxe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ulalume by Edgar Allen Poe. If you can, try getting the recording by Jeff Buckley from the album "Closed on Account of Rabies". The whole album is great :)
2006-12-30 11:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The RuBaiyat of Omar Khyam... "Tis all a Chequerboard of nights and days, where destiny with men for pieces plays..."
A Good Read
2006-12-30 10:57:23 · answer #4 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a look at some of the sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins...if you want some DOWNER poems, he's your guy.
2006-12-30 10:57:40 · answer #5 · answered by shkspr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote some excellent melancholy poems.
Or you can go to www.deadlounge.com/poetry/ and use their Goth-O-Matic (TM) Poetry Generator to make your own masterpieces. :)
2006-12-30 12:36:30 · answer #6 · answered by Robin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Flanders Fields", by (I Think) Joyce Kilmer.
2006-12-30 10:58:05 · answer #7 · answered by Beejee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the raven
2006-12-30 10:55:09 · answer #8 · answered by GHAAD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything by poe
2006-12-30 11:01:42 · answer #9 · answered by trysssa999 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋