The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Spirit, beauty & world
Short Poems About Beautyin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about beauty — 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
- 544
- Indexed poets
- 129
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay1920PD - 02
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W. B. Yeats1899PD - 03
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound1913Excerpt - 04
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Percy Bysshe Shelley1824PD - 05
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 06
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 07
Aglaia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Anael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
A Pastoral
James Russell Lowell—PD - 10
April
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Architriclinus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Art and Tact
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
Walt Whitman—PD - 14
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
By a Wonderful Quiz
James Russell Lowell—PD - 16
By Gil Vicente
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Walt Whitman—PD - 18
Chloe
James Russell Lowell—PD - 19
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 20
Daphnis
James Russell Lowell—PD - 21
Delia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Desire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—PD - 23
Doctor Serafino
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
draws all his characters quite _à la_ Fuseli,--
James Russell Lowell—PD - 25
Elsie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
Epimetheus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H
Ben Jonson—PD - 28
Euphrosyne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats—PD - 30
Forest-crypt: The crypt of a church is the basement, filled
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
Friar John
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
From the Greek of Plato
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 33
From the Italian of Giovanni Strozzi
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 34
Giorgio
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Gioroio
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
Glove of Black in White Hand Bare
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
Green
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 38
Hangbird: The oriole, so called from its hanging nest; one of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 39
Hebe: Hebe was cup-bearer to the gods at their feasts on Olympus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 40
id'
Sappho—PD - 41
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Sappho—PD - 42
Impressions of Homer
James Russell Lowell—PD - 43
In Horologium
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 44
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Sappho—PD - 45
It is Not Growing Like a Tree
Ben Jonson—PD - 46
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Sappho—PD - 47
June
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
Love Song--Heine
Eugene Field—PD