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
- 527
- Indexed poets
- 94
§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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