There are 443 Poems about Disappointment

"Love of My Flesh, Living Death"
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
By Gerard Manley Hopkins

(“O you mad, you superbly drunk!...”)
By Rabindranath Tagore

1994
By Lucille Clifton

A Better Resurrection
By Christina Rossetti

A Daughter of Eve
By Christina Rossetti

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

A Disappointment
By Joanna Baillie

A Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe

A Hairline Fracture
By Amy Clampitt

A Hymn to God the Father
By John Donne

A January Dandelion
By George Marion McClellan

A Marriage in the Dolomites
By D. Nurkse

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne

A Wedding
By James Tate

Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser

About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
By Charles Bukowski

Abundance
By John Ciardi

Acceptance Speech
By Dean Young

Account
By Czeslaw Milosz

Across a Table
By Steven Cordova

Acts of Vexation
By Pam Rehm

Addiction
By A. F. Moritz

Advertisement
By Wisława Szymborska

After Apple Picking
By Robert Frost

After Catullus and Horace
By Bernadette Mayer

After Summer Fell Apart
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Against Pluralism
By Donald Revell

Ah, Silly Pug, wert thou so Sore Afraid
By Elizabeth I

Alcohol
By Franz Wright

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Amor Mundi
By Christina Rossetti

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Old Man on the River Bank
By George Seferis

And If I Did, What Then?
By George Gascoigne

And the Grass Did Grow
By Ralph Angel

Andrea del Sarto
By Robert Browning

Art thou pale for weariness
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

As Children Know
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Ashes of Life
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Asked to Recall a Moment of Pure Happiness
By Mary Kinzie

Aspects of Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Astrophel and Stella XXXIII
By Philip Sidney

Aubade
By Philip Larkin

Aurora Leigh
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Autopsychography
By Fernando Pessoa

“Find Work”
By Rhina P. Espaillat

“Himself let him unknown contain”
By Tom Clark

“I have been a stranger in a strange land”
By Rita Dove

Babies
By Alice Fulton

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Before the Mirror
By Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Birches
By Robert Frost

Bitch
By Carolyn Kizer

Bitter Suite
By Henri Coulette

Black Mare
By Lynda Hull

Break, Break, Break
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Broken Promises
By David Kirby

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Cage
By Josephine Miles

Cape Cod
By George Santayana

Captain Carpenter
By John Crowe Ransom

Carrying a Ladder
By Kay Ryan

Casey at the Bat
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer

Che Fece ... Il Gran Refiuto
By C. P. Cavafy

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Cleaning an Attic
By Brent Pallas

Close Path
By Mary Kinzie

Cloudy Day
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Consecration
By Susan Stewart

Conversation with a Widow
By A. F. Moritz

courthouse steps
By D.A. Powell

Cowboy on Horse in Desert
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Cuckoldom
By BJ Ward

Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
By Diane Wakoski

Days
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Defeated
By Sophie Jewett

Dejection: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Departure
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Depression
By Henry Carlile

Disappointment
By August Kleinzahler

Discontents in Devon
By Robert Herrick

Disdain Returned
By Thomas Carew

Dismantling the House
By Stephen Dunn

Do Not!
By Stevie Smith

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold

Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Dream Song 14
By John Berryman

Drift
By Brenda Shaughnessy

Drifting at Midday
By Malachi Black

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

Easter Wings
By George Herbert

Eight Variations
By Weldon Kees

Elms
By Louise Glück

End of the Comedy
By Louis Untermeyer

Enow
By Henri Coulette

Episode in a Library
By Zbigniew Herbert

Eros Turannos
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Eugenia Todd
By Edgar Lee Masters

Exile
By George Elliott Clarke

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Fair Iris I Love and Hourly I Die
By John Dryden

Family Romance
By Larry Levis

Farewell Love and all thy Laws for ever
By Thomas Wyatt

Faustine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fie, Pleasure, Fie!
By George Gascoigne

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Follow Your Saint
By Thomas Campion

For once, then Something
By Robert Frost

Foredoom
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Forget not Yet the Tried Intent
By Thomas Wyatt

Forgetfulness
By Billy Collins

Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Space to Time
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

Gerontion
By T. S. Eliot

God
By Isaac Rosenberg

Good Husbands Make Unhappy Wives
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Good-Bye
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Grand Central, Track 23
By Elizabeth Skurnick

Gray Weather
By Robinson Jeffers

Handle
By J. Allyn Rosser

Hardware
By Averill Curdy

He Thinks of His Children
By Hittan of Tayyi

High Windows
By Philip Larkin

Holy Sonnets: I am a little world made cunningly
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: If poisonous minerals, and if that tree
By John Donne

Holy Sonnets: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
By John Donne

Honey Dripper
By Clarence Major

Hope
By Emily Jane Brontë

Horse
By Louise Glück

Horses in Snow
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Hotel
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

How Are You Doing?
By Rick Snyder

How It Adds Up
By Tony Hoagland

Human Cylinders
By Mina Loy

Hyperion
By John Keats

I Abide and Abide and Better Abide
By Thomas Wyatt

I Am the Only Being Whose Doom
By Emily Jane Brontë

I Am!
By John Clare

i can't stay in the same room with that woman for five minutes
By Charles Bukowski

I Could Not Tell
By Sharon Olds

I Feel Horrible. She Doesn’t
By Richard Brautigan

I felt a Funeral in my Brain
By Emily Dickinson

I never hear the word “Escape” (144)
By Emily Dickinson

I Sit and Sew
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

I Want You to See
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

I would I might Forget that I am I
By George Santayana

If I Had Known
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

If Love now Reigned as it hath been
By Henry VIII, king of England

Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

In Tenebris
By Thomas Hardy

In the Desert
By Stephen Crane

In the Park
By John Koethe

Incubus
By Craig Arnold

Infelix
By Adah Isaacs Menken

Interrupted Meditation
By Robert Hass

Is it Possible
By Thomas Wyatt

It Couldn’t Be Done
By Edgar Albert Guest

It Didn’t Begin with Horned Owls
Hooting at Noon
By Kevin Stein

It was not death, for I stood up
By Emily Dickinson

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
By Stephen C. Foster

John Sutter
By Yvor Winters

Joy in the Woods
By Claude McKay

Justice, Come Down
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Kitchen Chair Poem #5
By Clarence Major

Lambert Hutchins
By Edgar Lee Masters

Larkinesque
By Michael Ryan

Late Results
By Scott Cairns

Leaving the Island
By Sharon Olds

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Letter to a Friend about Girls
By Philip Larkin

Life Story
By Tennessee Williams

Little Soul
By Hadrian

Long Story Short
By G. E. Murray

Look to the Future
By Ruth Stone

Losing the Game
By Diane Ackerman

Louisiana Purchase
By Charlie Smith

Love Again
By Philip Larkin

Love Recidivus
By Lisa Barnett

Love's Apparition and Evanishment: An Allegoric Romance
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love's Deity
By John Donne

Madmen
By Billy Collins

Male Rage Poem
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Margaret Fuller Slack
By Edgar Lee Masters

Marriage a-la-Mode
By John Dryden

Marriage and Midsummer’s Night
By Linda Gregg

Mary Shelley in Brigantine
By Stephen Dunn

Matisse, Too
By Alicia Ostriker

Mild is the Parting Year
By Walter Savage Landor

Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Minor Poet
By Bill Sweeney

Mnemosyne
By Trumbull Stickney

Mock Orange
By Louise Glück

Modern Love: I
By George Meredith

Modern Love: XVI
By George Meredith

Money
By Philip Larkin

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Mrs. Benjamin Pantier
By Edgar Lee Masters

Muckraker
By Cate Marvin

My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
By Thomas Wyatt

My Little Dreams
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

My Lute Awake
By Thomas Wyatt

My Picture Left in Scotland
By Ben Jonson

Near Helikon
By Trumbull Stickney

Never Seek to Tell thy Love
By William Blake

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

Not Waving but Drowning
By Stevie Smith

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

Novelette
By Adrian Blevins

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
By Thomas Gray

Ode on Melancholy
By John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale
By John Keats

from Odes: 10. Chorus of Furies
By Basil Bunting

Of Memory and Distance
By Russell Edson

Of the Mean and Sure Estate
By Thomas Wyatt

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)
By Thomas Moore

Oh! Susanna
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Folks at Home
By Stephen C. Foster

On Munsungun
By Ethan Stebbins

On Quitting
By Edgar Albert Guest

One Afternoon
By Joanie V. Mackowski

One Angel: Palazzo Arian, at San Raffaele Arcangelo
By Ann Snodgrass

One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop

One Perfect Rose
By Dorothy Parker

Orpheus
By A. F. Moritz

Orpheus in Hell
By Jack Spicer

Out Here Even Crows Commit Suicide
By Colleen J. McElroy

Parting Song
By Jill Alexander Essbaum

Pauline Is Falling
By Jean Nordhaus

Piazza Piece
By John Crowe Ransom

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Portrait d'une Femme
By Ezra Pound

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Postpartum Blues
By Elton Glaser

Preludes
By T. S. Eliot

Preposition
By Sally Van Doren

Prophetic Outlook
By Ernest Hilbert

Prothalamion
By Michael Ryan

Quest
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Release
By Adelaide Crapsey

Religio Medici
By Arthur Conan Doyle

Requiem for a Nest
By Wanda Coleman

Rhapsody on a Windy Night
By T. S. Eliot

Ring Out Your Bells
By Philip Sidney

Robinson at Home
By Weldon Kees

Sadness
By Donald Justice

Salvation
By James Kimbrell

Searchers
By D. Nurkse

Separation at Burnt Island
By D. Nurkse

Several Errands
By Brenda Hillman

Shakesperian Readings
By Phoebe Cary

Shame
By C. K. Williams

Shame
By Joshua Weiner

She Considers the Dimensions of Her Soul
By Young Smith

Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Ships that Pass in the Night
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Shiver & You Have Weather
By Matthea Harvey

Shy Boy
By Greg Sellers

Silence
By Billy Collins

Since ye so Please
By Thomas Wyatt

Sing me a Song of a Lad that is Gone
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Sleep Cycle
By Dean Young

Sleeping on Fists
By Alberto Ríos

So We'll Go no More a Roving
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Solitude
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Song & Error
By Averill Curdy

Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner
By Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnet CXXIX: "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame"
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXVI: Tir'd with all these, for Restful Death
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXIX: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare

Spring
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Stars
By Alice Friman

Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson

Sugar Dada
By J. Allyn Rosser

Synopsis for a German Novella
By John Fuller

Talking Richard Wilson Blues, by Richard Clay Wilson
By Denis Johnson

Testament
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

The Academic Poet
By Henri Coulette

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Affliction of Richard
By Robert Bridges

The Albatross
By Kate Bass

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

The Author to Her Book
By Anne Bradstreet

The Bitterness of Children
By Thomas Lux

The Book of the Deer, the Bear and the Elk
By Henry Carlile

The Boston Evening Transcript
By T. S. Eliot

The Calm
By John Donne

The Castaway
By William Cowper

The City
By C. P. Cavafy

The Cloister
By William Matthews

The Collar
By George Herbert

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The County Jail
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

The Dead Man Walking
By Thomas Hardy

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Debt
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
By Robinson Jeffers

The Delta Parade
By Susan Stewart

The Despairing Man Draws a Serpent
By Alfonso Cortes

The Disappointment
By Aphra Behn

The Dowser’s Ear
By Wilmer Mills

The Exile
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Extension of the Dead
By Gary Fincke

The Fabric of Life
By Kay Ryan

The Farm
By David Lee

from The Fatalist: Home whose names are produced by motion
By Lyn Hejinian

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

The Funeral
By John Donne

The Garden of Love
By William Blake

The Garden of Proserpine
By Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Glass Essay
By Anne Carson

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The heart asks pleasure first
By Emily Dickinson

The Hitchhikers
By Diane Wakoski

The House of Life: 97. A Superscription
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Housewife
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance
By Li Po

The Lay for the Troubled Golfer
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Lesson
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Lie
By Don Paterson

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Living End
By Samuel Menashe

The Long Love that in my Thought doth Harbour
By Thomas Wyatt

The Lost Pilot
By James Tate

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The Marriage in the Trees
By Stanley Plumly

The Medium
By Robin Blaser

The Men
By B. H. Fairchild

The Men
By Pablo Neruda

The Mill
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield

The Nails
By W. S. Merwin

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Old Familiar Faces
By Charles Lamb

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Orient
By Thomas P. Lynch

The Other Side of This World
By Calvin Forbes

The Pains of Sleep
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Perfect Life
By John Koethe

The Prospector
By Robert W. Service

The Queen of Carthage
By Louise Glück

The Raven
By Edgar Allan Poe

The Reason
By Stevie Smith

The Return
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Root
By Helen Hoyt

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg

The Shrubbery
By William Cowper

The Smell of Rat Rubs Off
By J. Allyn Rosser

The Spell of the Yukon
By Robert W. Service

The Stream's Secret
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

from The Task, Book I: The Sofa
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Temper (I)
By George Herbert

The Thorn
By William Wordsworth

The Time I’ve Lost in Wooing
By Thomas Moore

The To-be-forgotten
By Thomas Hardy

The Truth Is Laughter 10
By Robin Blaser

The Unfortunate Lover
By Andrew Marvell

The Untrustworthy Speaker
By Louise Glück

The Use of Poetry
By Michael Ryan

The Want of Peace
By Wendell Berry

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The White City
By Claude McKay

The Window Just Over the Street
By Alice Cary

The Wood-Pile
By Robert Frost

The Wound
By Ruth Stone

Theodicy
By Czeslaw Milosz

There was an Old Man of New York
By Edward Lear

This Be the Verse
By Philip Larkin

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Tho’ Lack of Laurels and of Wreaths Not One
By Trumbull Stickney

Threshold
By R. S. Thomas

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tithonus
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To -
By Sarah Helen Whitman

To a Greek Marble
By Richard Aldington

To a Mouse
By Robert Burns

To Failure
By Philip Larkin

To One Unknown
By Helen Dudley

To Sleep
By John Keats

To the Nightingale
By Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

To the Quarry and Back
By Katia Kapovich

Touch
By Trevor West Knapp

Translation
By Deirdre O'Connor

Trapped
By Adelaide Crapsey

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

Truly Pathetic
By Neal Bowers

Tutelary
By Michael Ryan

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Uncouplings
By Craig Arnold

Unstable Dream
By Thomas Wyatt

Valentine
By Elinor Wylie

Valentine
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

vegas
By Charles Bukowski

Verities
By Kim Addonizio

Vespers ["Once I believed in you..."]
By Louise Glück

Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]
By Louise Glück

Visiting a dead man on a summer day
By Marge Piercy

Was He Married?
By Stevie Smith

Washington McNeely
By Edgar Lee Masters

What Indians?
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

What should I Say
By Thomas Wyatt

What to Count On
By Peggy Shumaker

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
By Walt Whitman

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

When Life
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

When We Two Parted
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Whoso List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind
By Thomas Wyatt

Wild Oats
By Philip Larkin

Winter Love
By Linda Gregg

Wonder
By Thomas Traherne

Work without Hope
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Writing Letters to My Mother
By Colette Inez

Written on a Wall at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock
By Elizabeth I

You charm'd me not with that fair face
By John Dryden

You were like the young fig tree
By Miguel Hernández

Young Harlan
By Richard Emil Braun

Your Idea of Embracing Horror
By A. F. Moritz

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Youth and Art
By Robert Browning

[Sonnet] name address date
By Bernadette Mayer

[What horror to awake at night]
By Lorine Niedecker