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
- 528
- Indexed poets
- 93
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Death by Water
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 02
Fire and Ice
Robert Frost1920Excerpt - 03
A Baby's Epitaph
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 04
Angels Ministrant
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
A Story from Boccaccio
John Keats—PD - 06
Brooding Grief
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 07
Bystanders
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Cavalieri
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Chilion
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Christison
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Crier of the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Crier Op the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Delia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Delicate Cluster
Walt Whitman—PD - 15
Dissolute
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 16
Epitaph
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 17
Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats—PD - 18
February
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Forester
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
From the Greek
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 21
From the Greek of Plato
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 22
From the Italian of Giovanni Strozzi
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 23
From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 24
Gaspar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
Gloyd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
God
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
Gottlieb
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
Greeks of Gadara
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
Guide
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
ia'
Sappho—PD - 31
I like a look of Agony
Emily Dickinson—PD - 32
I Saw Old General at Bay
Walt Whitman—PD - 33
Julia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
July
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Justice
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
kg'
Sappho—PD - 37
Look Down Fair Moon
Walt Whitman—PD - 38
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Walt Whitman—PD - 39
Manahen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
November
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
On Fanny Godwin
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 42
Others
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
Pandora
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Prometheus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston
James Russell Lowell—PD - 46
Rachel
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
Rahab
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
Reconciliation
Walt Whitman—PD
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