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
- 518
- Indexed poets
- 127
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound1913Excerpt - 02
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 03
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 04
AGLAIA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
ANAEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
A PASTORAL
James Russell Lowell—PD - 07
APRIL
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
ARCHITRICLINUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
ART AND TACT
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE.
Walt Whitman—PD - 11
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
BY A WONDERFUL QUIZ
James Russell Lowell—PD - 13
BY GIL VICENTE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD.
Walt Whitman—PD - 15
CHLOE
James Russell Lowell—PD - 16
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 17
DAPHNIS
James Russell Lowell—PD - 18
DELIA
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Desire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—PD - 20
DOCTOR SERAFINO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
draws all his characters quite _à la_ Fuseli,--
James Russell Lowell—PD - 22
ELSIE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
EPIMETHEUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
EUPHROSYNE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
EVE OF ST. AGNES.
John Keats—PD - 26
Forest-crypt: The crypt of a church is the basement, filled
James Russell Lowell—PD - 27
FRIAR JOHN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—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
GLOVE OF BLACK IN WHITE HAND BARE
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
id'.
Sappho—PD - 36
ig'.
Sappho—PD - 37
IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER
James Russell Lowell—PD - 38
IN HOROLOGIUM.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 39
i[st]'.
Sappho—PD - 40
iz'.
Sappho—PD - 41
JUNE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 42
LOVE SONG--HEINE
Eugene Field—PD - 43
MAY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
MESSER CLAUDIO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
MICHAEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
MONNA LISA
James Russell Lowell—PD - 47
NATHANAEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
OCTOBER
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD