Sad Love Poems

There is probably none, who did not taste sadness in love. Well, like the joyride of love that takes us from the real world to a world of magic, it brings a few pangs with it as well. Like happiness, pain too is an integral part of love. And it goes without saying that the feelings of pathos are stronger than the wonderland of affection. It is also can't be denied that pain in love is lessened if we share our feelings. So given below are some sad love poems, which you can truly identify with if you are going through a similar phase.

Some popular sad love poems:

Farewell Love by Sir Thomas Wyatt:

"Farewell love and all thy laws forever;
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
...therefore farewell; go trouble younger hearts
And in me claim no more authority."

This extract of the classic sad poem truly signifies poet's disgust over love. He hoped that since he was no more in love, he did not want love again in his life. He also instructed love to leave him forever and to trouble younger generation.

Last Ride Together by Robert browning:

"...…Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who success?
We rode; it seemed my spirit flew,
Saw other regions, cities new
As the world rushed by on either side.
I thought, - All labour, yet no less
……..This present of theirs with the hopeful past!
I hoped she would love me; here we ride."

This is not a poem of frustration rather one of the greatest classic sad poems of all ages. Here the poet marked a thin line of success in his broken love. He knew that she would leave him and still he was satisfied with whatever he got from his beloved. He also cited that everyone around the world must be after something. But hardly anyone got what he wanted. At least, he was riding with his ladylove, which was more than an achievement for a true lover.

With How Sad Steps by Sir Philip Sidney:

"……..O Moon, tell me,
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call 'virtue' there- ungratefulness?"

In this poem, the poet personifies a rejected lover full of confusions. He also addressed the moon if she was also a rejected lover like him.

If Raindrops Were Tears by Joanna Fuchs:

"…….You want me to stop;
You want to be friends,
But you'll be my true love
Until breath and life ends."

This sad poem is written by a modern poet, Joanna Fuchs. In this poem, she wanted to convey her so-called friend, whom she loved that she would always love him, even if he wanted her only as a friend. She also marked that he would be her only true love and she would love him until she was alive.

A Time By Charlene Lopez

There was a time
When I thought you were for me.
I saw no flaws in my choice;
I guess I didn't see.

You didn't treat me nicely
Despite how I treated you.
I cared for you, I loved you
And that you even knew.
I kept telling myself
That you could change your ways.
But you proved me wrong
Every single day.

Suddenly its all black, I can't remember
And I wake up curled up under my cover

Time Does Not Bring Relief by Edna St Vincent Millay

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go - so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, 'There is no memory of him here!'
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.

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