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Poems About Fatein the open canon
- Indexed poems
- 280
- Indexed poets
- 0
- Short poems
- 19
Where to begin with fate
Three ways in01 · Most-read entry
1492
by Emma Lazarus, 1883
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02 · Editor's pick
An Open Boat
by Alfred Noyes, 1922
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03 · Counterpoint
Death by Water
by T. S. Eliot, 1922
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§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
1492
Emma Lazarus1883PD - 02
An Open Boat
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 03
Death by Water
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 04
Drummer Hodge
Thomas Hardy1899PD - 05
Kilmeny
Alfred Noyes1907Excerpt - 06
Loss
H. D.1916Excerpt - 07
Namesakes
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 08
Prisoners
H. D.1924Excerpt - 09
The Burial of the Dead
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 10
The Helmsman
H. D.1916Excerpt - 11
The Highwayman
Alfred Noyes1906Excerpt - 12
The New Duckling
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 13
The Open Door
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 14
The Phantom Fleet
Alfred Noyes1902Excerpt - 15
The Realms of Gold
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 16
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost1915Excerpt - 17
The Second Coming
W. B. Yeats1920PD - 18
The Shrine
H. D.1916Excerpt - 19
To a Mouse
Robert Burns1785PD - 20
198:—
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD
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Short poems about fate
Twelve lines or fewer — a curated facet for the commute, the inbox, the lock screen. Hand-filtered for length, sequenced by canonical weight.
19
Under 12 lines