Heartbreak

The literature of loss in love — abandonment, longing, and the slow work of getting over someone, in verse and prose.

For the morning after

In this collection

• It Blows a Snowing Gale
• Shearing In The Riverina, New South Wales
• Olive
• The King of Elfland's Daughter
• A Requiem (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• As We Look Back (Rondeau)
• The Story of Paul and Florence Dombey*
• The Night of all Saints
• Flat Suburbs, S.W., In The Morning
• Let thy strong spirit never fear
• Grimmer and Kamper
• A Queen of the Stage
• John Alden and Percilly
• Fair Day at Embro
• The Dawn
• A Fog in Santone
• Sublimity and Madness
• The Straw Parlor
• First or Last
• The Valkyries
• Zechariah 13: 1
• The Ghost
• The Song of the Allies
• Inconstancy
• The Rantin' Dog, the Daddie o'T
• Here's his Health in Water
• The Lament
• Farewell to Eliza
• The Farewell
• Clarinda, Mistress of my Soul
• Stay my Charmer
• How Long and Dreary is the Night
• Talk of him that's Far Awa
• The Winter it is Past
• Sappho Redivivus-A Fragment
• She's Fair and Fause
• Highland Harry Back Again
• The Banks o' Doon (First Version)
• The Banks o' Doon (Second Version)
• The Banks o' Doon (Third Version)
• No Cold Approach, no Altered Mien
• The Last Time I Came o'Er the Moor
• Had I a Cave
• Canst Thou Leave me Thus, my Katie
• Song Inscribed to Alexander Cunningham
• The Hemlock Tree
• Forsaken
• The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille
• An End
• An Apple Gathering
• Maude Clare
• Twice
• Grown and Flown
• Love Lies Bleeding
• Mariana
• One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore
• To Constantia
• When Passion's Trance is Overpast
• When the Lamp is Shattered
• We Meet not as we Parted
• The Lost Mistress
• A Lovers' Quarrel
• In a Year
• James Lee's Wife
• The Worst of It
• Too Late
• May Darling, the Village Pride
• The Shell
• Schiehallion
• Lord Gregory
• Ae Fond Kiss, and then we Sever
• Thou Gloomy December
• Thou Fair Eliza
• Young Jamie, Pride of a' the Plain
• Altho' he has Left Me
• My Nanie's Awa
• Thou Hast Left me Ever, Jamie
• Jockey's Taen the Parting Kiss
• My Eppie Macnab
• Saw Ye my Dear, my Philly

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