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Heartbreak Poems

How a Poet Can Avoid Divorce

The lady deep in her slumbers Was woken by her dear Whose reasons for wakind his beloved was not as romantic as …

She Stood Alone At The Altar

The Ms Dopping-Hepenstal stood up by her groom who had eloped to India with another woman without her knowing is still spoken of today. Her sister was involved with one of the Edgeworths, but in the end neither girl married. Some versions of the story have Edgeworth as the cad, but most do not.

They Were Lovers Once

The bitter bickering old couple often seen as much as the loving couples… yet they too were lovers once… an old verse …

Flight of Mad Sweeney

He flies over where the Devil could not walk Singing his mournful song of despair The places he has been and all …

Rose Among the Weeds

I grew up in an English garden Everything planted by plan, in rows For effect, pleasing to the eye To an order …

Heart Turned To Gold or Stone

The heart shall turn forged by life, love and pain To gold, or maybe to stone, To be mined from the chest …

Walking Away

Music: Guilherme Schroeter Singing: Guilherme Schroeter Lyrics: Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

The Courtly Lovers

Her eyes caught mine, and then her smile Wrought tears from my heart, not blood: From me she has flown, from afar …

Clock Ticks on the Wall

Not here, an empty barstool Glass slowly emptied before being replaced Clock ticks on the wall Swear words from the stood up, …

What Is Not to Be

Some things are not to be: Winning the lottery And other such things Man can live without For man can live As …