The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Bonds & belonging
Short Poems About Familyin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about family — 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
- 110
- Indexed poets
- 38
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
On My First Son
Ben Jonson1616PD - 02
A Mother
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
Brooding Grief
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 04
Chorus of Birds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Epimetheu5
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Forester
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Inscription for My Little Son's Silver Plate
Eugene Field—PD - 08
Joseph
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
kg'
Sappho—PD - 10
Rahab
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Talitha Cumi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
THE CONTRACT was considered almost as binding as a marriage. Remember
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
The Father
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
To My Mother
Archibald Lampman—PD - 15
Walcot
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD