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Short Poems About Artin twelve lines or fewer

One-screen poems about art — short enough to take in at a glance, long enough to mean what they say. Hand-filtered to twelve lines or fewer, drawn from the public-domain canon, sequenced by date.

Short poems
48
All poems in theme
595
Indexed poets
87

§03 The index

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Showing 48 of 48
  1. 01

    AGLAIA.

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  2. 02

    A HATE-SONG.

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  3. 03

    A MISCONCEPTION

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  4. 04

    ART AND TACT

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  5. 05

    BANNER AND PENNANT.

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  6. 06

    BENVENUTO.

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  7. 07

    B. Ten years later a reprint ‘in exact facsimile’ of the Pisa

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  8. 08

    Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or

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  9. 09

    BY A WONDERFUL QUIZ

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  10. 10

    CARDINAL MARCELLO.

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  11. 11

    CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD.

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  12. 12

    CHORUS OF MONKS.

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  13. 13

    Collegisse juvat: The full sentence, in the first ode of

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  14. 14

    Comma added at end of line:

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  15. 15

    Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:

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  16. 16

    DOCTOR SERAFINO.

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  17. 17

    draws all his characters quite _à la_ Fuseli,--

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  18. 18

    E. F.

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  19. 19

    ENVOY

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  20. 20

    EPISTLES

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  21. 21

    EUPHROSYNE.

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  22. 22

    FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, SET UP IN ST. MARGARET'S,

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  23. 23

    Forest-crypt: The crypt of a church is the basement, filled

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  24. 24

    FRA SEBASTIANO.

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  25. 25

    FRIAR CUTHBERT.

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  26. 26

    FRIAR PAUL.

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  27. 27

    FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIOVANNI STROZZI

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  28. 28

    GIORGIO.

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  29. 29

    GIOROIO.

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  30. 30

    GOLDSMITH.

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  31. 31

    Hangbird: The oriole, so called from its hanging nest; one of

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  32. 32

    Hebe: Hebe was cup-bearer to the gods at their feasts on Olympus.

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  33. 33

    HERMES.

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  34. 34

    Holy Grail: According to medieval legend, the Sangreal was the

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  35. 35

    ia'.

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  36. 36

    I like a look of Agony

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  37. 37

    IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER

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  38. 38

    INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT

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  39. 39

    IPPOLITO.

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  40. 40

    iz'.

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  41. 41

    JULIUS.

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  42. 42

    ka'.

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  43. 43

    LONGIXUS.

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  44. 44

    MESSER CLAUDIO.

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  45. 45

    MICHAEL.

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  46. 46

    MONNA LISA

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  47. 47

    MONTAIGNE.

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  48. 48

    NOT THE PILOT.

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