The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Mortality & time
Short Poems About Deathin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about death — 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
- 561
- Indexed poets
- 92
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Ah! Sun-flower
William Blake1794PD - 02
Death by Water
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 03
Fire and Ice
Robert Frost1920Excerpt - 04
On My First Son
Ben Jonson1616PD - 05
A Baby's Epitaph
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 06
Angels Ministrant
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth—PD - 08
A Story from Boccaccio
John Keats—PD - 09
Brooding Grief
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 10
Bystanders
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Cavalieri
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Chilion
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Christison
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Crier of the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
Crier Op the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
Delia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Delicate Cluster
Walt Whitman—PD - 18
Dissolute
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 19
Epitaph
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 20
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
A. E. Housman—PD - 21
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H
Ben Jonson—PD - 22
Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats—PD - 23
February
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
Forester
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
From the Greek
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 26
From the Greek of Plato
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 27
From the Italian of Giovanni Strozzi
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 28
From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 29
Gaspar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Gloyd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
God
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Gottlieb
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
Greeks of Gadara
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
Guide
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
ia'
Sappho—PD - 36
I like a look of Agony
Emily Dickinson—PD - 37
I Saw Old General at Bay
Walt Whitman—PD - 38
Julia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
July
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
Justice
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
kg'
Sappho—PD - 42
Look Down Fair Moon
Walt Whitman—PD - 43
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Walt Whitman—PD - 44
Manahen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
November
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
On Fanny Godwin
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 47
Others
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
Pandora
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD
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