The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition
Short Poems About Fatein twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about fate — 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
- 19
- All poems in theme
- 280
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Death by Water
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 02
A Baby's Epitaph
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 03
Atropos
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
Belshazzar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Chorus of Reeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Clotho
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Epimetheus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
For a Bell at Cornell University
James Russell Lowell—PD - 09
Gaspar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
I Saw Old General at Bay
Walt Whitman—PD - 11
Lachesis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Long, Too Long America
Walt Whitman—PD - 13
Melchior
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Prometheus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
Retribution
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
The Boss
James Russell Lowell—PD - 17
The Child Christ
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
To Leuconoe
Horace—PD - 19
Wharton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD