Poems
- "Despair", a poem by an unknown author
- "Despair", a poem by Mathilde Blind
- "Despair", a poem by Ada Cambridge
- "Despair", a poem by Alice Cary
- "Despair", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "The Despair", a poem by Abraham Cowley
- "Despair", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- "Despair", a poem by Elsa Gidlow
- "Despair", a poem by May C. Lassen
- "Despair", a poem by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Despair", a poem by Alexander Pushkin
- "Despair", a poem by Cynthia Taggart
- "Despair", a poem by Alfred Tennyson
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