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