Poems about Loneliness

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

- Francis Bacon

Poems about Loneliness

• I wandered Lonely as a Cloud - W.Wordsworth
• The Little Boy Found - Blake
• Alone Looking at the Mountain - Li Po
• Alone - Maya Angelou
• The Lonely House - Maya Angelou
• Dirge - Emerson
• Evening Solace - Charlotte Bronte
• My Greatest Need is You Rabia al Basri
• Poems on Loneliness - Sri Chinmoy

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Loneliness

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Being apart and lonely is like rain.
It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs
to heaven, which is its old abode.
And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city.

It rains down on us in those twittering
hours when the streets turn their faces to the dawn,
and when two bodies who have found nothing,
dissapointed and depressed, roll over;
and when two people who despise eachother
have to sleep together in one bed-

that is when loneliness receives the rivers...

Translated by Robert Bly

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