Dirge by William Shakespeare

by Admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Death Poems, Sad Poems

COME away, come away, death,
   And in sad cypres let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
   I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
   O prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
   Did share it.

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
   On my black coffin let there be strown;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
   My poor corse, where my bones shall be thrown:
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
   Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave
   To weep there!

And Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream

by Admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Poems, Poetry, Sad Poems

‘and Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream?’ Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

'And ask ye why these sad tears stream?'

‘Te somnia nostra reducunt.’
OVID.

And ask ye why these sad tears stream?
Why these wan eyes are dim with weeping?
I had a dream–a lovely dream,
Of her that in the grave is sleeping.

I saw her as ’twas yesterday,
The bloom upon her cheek still glowing;
And round her play’d a golden ray,
And on her brows were gay flowers blowing.

With angel-hand she swept a lyre,
A garland red with roses bound it;
Its strings were wreath’d with lambent fire
And amaranth was woven round it.

I saw her mid the realms of light,
In everlasting radiance gleaming;
Co-equal with the seraphs bright,
Mid thousand thousand angels beaming.

I strove to reach her, when, behold,
Those fairy forms of bliss Elysian,
And all that rich scene wrapt in gold,
Faded in air–a lovely vision!

And I awoke, but oh! to me
That waking hour was doubly weary;
And yet I could not envy thee,
Although so blest, and I so dreary.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Clown in the Moon

by Admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Poems, Poetry, Sad Poems

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

Dylan Thomas

A Sad Child

by Admin | Dec 3, 2025 | Children Poems, Poems, Sad Poems

A Sad Child by Margaret Atwood

You're sad because you're sad.
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.

Well, all children are sad
but some get over it.
Count your blessings. Better than that,
buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.
Take up dancing to forget.

Forget what?
Your sadness, your shadow,
whatever it was that was done to you
the day of the lawn party
when you came inside flushed with the sun,
your mouth sulky with sugar,
in your new dress with the ribbon
and the ice-cream smear,
and said to yourself in the bathroom,
I am not the favorite child.

My darling, when it comes
right down to it
and the light fails and the fog rolls in
and you're trapped in your overturned body
under a blanket or burning car,

and the red flame is seeping out of you
and igniting the tarmac beside your head
or else the floor, or else the pillow,
none of us is;
or else we all are.

The Richest Man in Babylon

by Admin | Dec 2, 2025 | Best Selling Books, Book Reviews, Emerald Book Club

Self Help

The Richest Man in Babylon

The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,097 years earlier, in ancient Babylon

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Originally published: 1926

Author: George Samuel Clason

Genre: Self-help book

ISBN: 978-0451205360

Pages: 144

⭐ Overview / Summary

The Richest Man in Babylon is a classic personal finance book written by George S. Clason, first published in 1926. The book is not a historical document from ancient Babylon but a collection of modern parables set in that time to illustrate timeless financial principles. A timeless classic sharing personal finance lessons through ancient Babylonian parables. The book originated as a series of informational pamphlets, written by George S. Clason and distributed by banks and insurance companies, starting in 1926. These were later compiled into the complete book

💡 Key Points

“Pay yourself first.”
Live on less than you earn.
Seek advice from wise experts.
Multiply your wealth through investment.

🔍 Interesting Insight

Saving at least 10% of all income is the foundation of wealth building. The core message is that the laws governing the acquisition of wealth are universal and unchanging, as relevant today as they were when the book was first written

📚 Lessons Learned