http://www.sympathy-quotes.com Sharing the feelings of others... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:08:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Into the furnace let me go alone; Stay you without in terror of the heat. I will go naked in--for thus ''tis sweet-- Into the weird depths of the hottest zone. I will not quiver in the frailest bone, You will not note a flicker of defeat; My heart shall tremble not its fate to meet, My ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/baptism-baptism-poems/ And let her loves, when she is dead, Write this above her bones: "No more she lives to give us bread Who asked her only stones." (Poem By Dorothy Parker) http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/for-a-sad-lady-sad-poems/ I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire In men the rush and roar of fire, The sweet transparency of glass, The tenderness of April grass, The durability of granite; But me- I don't know how to plan it. The lads I've met in Cupid's deadlock Were- ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/a-fairly-sad-tale-sad-poems/ Sleep, sleep, my beloved, without worry, without fear, although my soul does not sleep, although I do not rest. Sleep, sleep, and in the night may your whispers be softer than a leaf of grass, or the silken fleece of lambs. May my flesh slumber in you, my worry, my trembling. In you, may my eyes close and my heart sleep. (Poem ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/the-sad-mother-sad-poems/ The Captain becomes moody at sea. He's afraid of water; such bully amounts that prove the seas. . . A glass of water is one thing. A man easily downs it, capturing its menace in his bladder; pissing it away. A few drops of rain do little harm, save to remind of how grief looks upon ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/the-sad-message-sad-poems/ Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the moon's cleanliness. Four o'clock: wedge-shaped gardens lie Under a cavernous, a wind-pierced sky. There's something laughable about this, The way the moon dashes through the clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand apart (Stone-coloured light sharpening the ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/sad-steps-sad-poems/ With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What! may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case: I read it in thy looks; thy languished ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/sonnet-with-how-sad-steps-sad-poems/ With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What! May it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case: I read it in thy looks; thy languished ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/to-the-sad-moon-sad-poems/ Someone was saying something about shadows covering the field, about how things pass, how one sleeps towards morning and the morning goes. Someone was saying how the wind dies down but comes back, how shells are the coffins of wind but the weather continues. It was a long night and someone said something about the ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/the-long-sad-party-sad-poems/ One by one they appear in the darkness: a few friends, and a few with historical names. How late they start to shine! but before they fade they stand perfectly embodied, all the past lapping them like a cloak of chaos. They were men who, I thought, lived only to renew the wasteful ... http://www.sympathy-quotes.com/thematic-poems-and-poetry/my-sad-captains-sad-poems/