100 best sad poems

• A Blessing by James Wright

• Alone by Maya Angelou

• Among the Tranquil Graves by Aaron Barth-Martinson

• Banyan by Sudeep Sen

• Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich

• For my achondroplasic child by Luciano R. Mendes

• Goodbye to the Sun by Crystal Sherriff

• Her Kind by Anne Sexton

• Howl (Parts I and II) by Allen Ginsberg

• Imaginary Landscape with 29 Birds (After Audubon) by Marc Jampole

• Late Afternoon at Point Reyes by Celeste Newbrough

• My Sister Buried in a Trunk by Aaron Barth-Martinson

• Odysseus to Telemachus by Joseph Brodsky

• The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks

• The Chimney-Sweeper by William Blake

• The Death Song of Lenny Ross by Marc Jampole

• The Unknown Citizen by Wystan H. Auden

• Winter by Sudeep Sen