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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
- 603
- Indexed poets
- 87
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson1891PD - 02
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Walt Whitman1865PD - 03
Aglaia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
A Hate-Song
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 05
A Misconception
James Russell Lowell—PD - 06
Art and Tact
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Banner and Pennant
Walt Whitman—PD - 08
Benvenuto
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
B. Ten years later a reprint ‘in exact facsimile’ of the Pisa
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 10
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
By a Wonderful Quiz
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
Cardinal Marcello
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Walt Whitman—PD - 14
Chorus of Monks
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
Collegisse juvat: The full sentence, in the first ode of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 16
Comma added at end of line:
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 17
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 18
Doctor Serafino
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
draws all his characters quite _à la_ Fuseli,--
James Russell Lowell—PD - 20
E. F
Eugene Field—PD - 21
Envoy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Epistles
John Keats—PD - 23
Euphrosyne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh, Set up in St. Margaret's,
James Russell Lowell—PD - 25
Forest-crypt: The crypt of a church is the basement, filled
James Russell Lowell—PD - 26
Fra Sebastiano
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
Friar Cuthbert
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
Friar Paul
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
From the Italian of Giovanni Strozzi
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 30
Giorgio
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Gioroio
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Goldsmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
Hangbird: The oriole, so called from its hanging nest; one of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 34
Hebe: Hebe was cup-bearer to the gods at their feasts on Olympus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 35
Hermes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
Holy Grail: According to medieval legend, the Sangreal was the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 37
ia'
Sappho—PD - 38
I like a look of Agony
Emily Dickinson—PD - 39
Impressions of Homer
James Russell Lowell—PD - 40
International Copyright
James Russell Lowell—PD - 41
Ippolito
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 42
iz'
Sappho—PD - 43
Julius
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
ka'
Sappho—PD - 45
Longixus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 46
Messer Claudio
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
Michael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
Monna Lisa
James Russell Lowell—PD