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The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath

Tags: conflict, loneliness, work, yearning

Beeny Cliff by Thomas Hardy

Tags: beauty, love, mortality, nostalgia yearning

Child by Sylvia Plath

Tags: family, futility, yearning

Death by John Donne

Tags: desire, sex, yearning

The Darling Letters by Carol Ann Duffy

Tags: desire, love, nostalgia, relationships, yearning

Eve by Christina Rossetti

Tags: grief, loss, regret, yearning

Funeral Blues by WH Auden

Tags: grief, love, mortality, yearning

Home-Thoughts, From Abroad by Robert Browning

Tags: love, nature, yearning

Infelice by Stevie Smith

Tags: loneliness, relationships, yearning

Journey of the Magi by TS Eliot

Tags: journeys, memories, mortality, yearning

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by WB Yeats

Tags: faith, nostalgia, yearning

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot

Tags: ageing, passion, yearning

Musée des Beaux Arts by WH Auden

Tags: art, yearning

Night Mail by WH Auden

Tags: memories, yearning

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

Tags: celebration, love, memories, yearning

Remember by Christina Rossetti

Tags: farewells, hope, memories, yearning

A Subaltern's Love Song by John Betjeman

Tags: love, relationships, yearning

Thoughts About the Person from Porlock by Stevie Smith

Tags: fantasy, love, words, yearning

Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy

Tags: desire, sex, yearning

When You Are Old by WB Yeats

Tags: ageing, love, yearning

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