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Short Poems About Despairin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about despair — 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
- 14
- All poems in theme
- 131
- Indexed poets
- 37
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 02
An echo of _Macbeth_, V, 5:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 03
Bindo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
Bystanders
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Captains
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Clotho
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 08
Messer Claudio
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Money
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
The Demoniac
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
The Four Virtues
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
The Restless Heart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Traveller
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
With the Night
Archibald Lampman—PD
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