The difference between being alone and feeling lonely

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I just saw this poetry on a website and thought it's nice the way it differentiate the feeling that someone have about liking to do things alone (which is something that I like) and feeling lonely (and how they are not the same thing).
I'll try my best to translate it without messing it:

"She likes to take coffee alone, to read alone and keep doing her stuff alone. But when the end of the night comes and she looks at the four corners of her room she feels lonely. Then she realizes that being alone is good, but feel lonely, is not.".

Sometimes I feel like this. Most of the time I'm happily doing my stuff alone and often people think that I'm sad or that I feel constantly this way just because I'm almost always doing things without company, but there are times when I do feel this sensation of being lonely.
Anyone can relate to this feeling?

I am frequently alone---but I rarely feel lonely.

There is a BIG difference!

correct, you are lonely when you are alone against your will.
i myself like my alone time, but there are times where i want/need another person around; those are the times i am lonely. not when i'm drinking my coffee with the newspaper on my own, but when i lie in bed in the evenings.

The fact that I'm alone most of the time hasn't changed since my childhood but I feel much less lonely for the last few years.

Being alone doesn't describe how you feel (more an objective fact) but being lonely describes how you feel (subjective).

I feel both all the time.