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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
- 25
- All poems in theme
- 161
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
ADVERTISEMENT.
John Keats—PD - 02
A FRAGMENT
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
ARGUMENT OF THE NINTH BOOK.
Homer—PD - 04
ARGUMENT OF THE THIRD BOOK.
Homer—PD - 05
A SERPENT-FACE.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 06
BINDO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
CARDINAL MARCELLO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
CLOTHO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
DISCIPLES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
ENVOY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
envy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
essay (_v._)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Half-virtues: Is Lowell disparaging the virtues of peace and
James Russell Lowell—PD - 14
LACHESIS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
MARENGHI.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 16
MONK.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
So he tossed ... in scorn: This is the turning-point of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 18
THE FALSE LAUREL AND THE TRUE.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 19
THE FOUR VIRTUES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
THE YOUNG RULER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
THOMAS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
TITIAN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT, THE.
James Russell Lowell—PD - 24
Without avail: Was Sir Launfal's long quest entirely without
James Russell Lowell—PD - 25
YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME.
Walt Whitman—PD
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