The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Aspirations & burdens
Short Poems About Failurein twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about failure — 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
- 15
- All poems in theme
- 161
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A Fragment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 02
Bindo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
Cardinal Marcello
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
Clotho
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Disciples
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Envoy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Lachesis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Monk
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
So he tossed ... in scorn: This is the turning-point of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 10
The Four Virtues
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
The Young Ruler
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Thomas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Titian
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Without avail: Was Sir Launfal's long quest entirely without
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
Year that Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
Walt Whitman—PD
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