Melancholy

The long literature of sadness — from Burton’s vast Anatomy of Melancholy to the lyric of dejection, the mood that produced some of the finest writing in English.

The blue mood, examined

In this collection

• Against the Grain
• The Ring and the Book
• Areopagitica
• Twilight Thoughts
• The Lily of the Valley
• Home at Night
• Metaphors of a Magnifico
• America's Prosperity (Enter America)
• Farmer Whipple -- Bachelor
• Whither?
• St Michael's Star
• A Bush Christening
• Invitation
• Boston
• The Sprig of Thyme
• The Story of Aoyagi
• The Wild Blue-Bells
• To my Collateral Ancestor, Rev. R. Graves, the Friend of the Poet
• Midsummer
• Ships
• In the Character of a Ruined Farmer
• Raging Fortune: Fragment of Song
• Farewell to Ballochmyle
• Song, Composed in Spring
• To Ruin
• The Lament
• Despondency: an Ode
• Go on, Sweet Bird, and Sooth my Care
• Raving Winds Around her Blowing
• Talk of him that's Far Awa
• A Mother's Lament
• The Fall of the Leaf
• Had I a Cave
• Where are the Joys I have Met?
• Afternoon in February
• Mezzo Cammin
• Weariness
• Autumn Within
• Eyes so Tristful, Eyes so Tristful
• Ovid in Exile
• From Sunset to Star Rise
• O Roses for the Flush of Youth
• May
• Mirage
• Shut Out
• She Sat and Sang Alway
• Dead before Death
• What Would I Give?
• Autumn
• Vanity of Vanities
• L. E. L
• Oh what Comes over the Sea
• Dead Hope
• A Daughter of Eve
• Twilight Night
• A Smile and a Sigh
• Yet a Little While
• Luscious and Sorrowful
• De Profundis
• Fluttered Wings
• Summer is Ended
• Soeur Louise De La Miséricorde
• Prince Athanase
• Stanza, Written at Bracknell
• Stanzas-April, 1814
• Oh! there are Spirits of the Air
• On Fanny Godwin
• They Die-The Dead Return not-Misery
• Song for ‘Tasso'
• Invocation to Misery
• Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples
• Lift not the Painted Veil which those who Live
• Fragment: ‘my Head is Wild with Weeping'
• My Dearest Mary, Wherefore Hast Thou Gone
• The World is Dreary
• Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day
• Fragment: ‘such Hope, as is the Sick Despair of Good'
• Fragment: ‘Alas! this is not what I Thought Life was'
• Far, Far Away, o Ye
• Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou
• A Lament
• Remembrance
• To Edward Williams
• The Solitary
• Despair
• Andrea Del Sarto
• Little Herr Friedemann
• The Wardrobe
• The Glamour-Land

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