The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Power & conscience
Short Poems About Freedomin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about freedom — 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
- 48
- All poems in theme
- 577
- Indexed poets
- 111
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Ah! Sun-flower
William Blake1794PD - 02
First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay1920PD - 03
I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman1860PD - 04
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson1891PD - 05
On Being Brought from Africa to America
Phillis Wheatley1773PD - 06
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Walt Whitman1865PD - 07
Ah Sunflower
William Blake—PD - 08
A Hymn
Horace—PD - 09
Another Judge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Banner and Pennant
Walt Whitman—PD - 11
Bellingham
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Benvenuto
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Bindo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Butter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
By Christoph August Tiedge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
By Gil Vicente
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Chorus of Dryades
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Chorus of Monks
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
Chorus of Reeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
Cole
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 23
Friar Paul
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
From the Greek
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 25
From the Italian of Michelangelo Buonarroti
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 26
Goldsmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
Hermes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
Infant Sorrow
William Blake—PD - 29
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
International Copyright
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
I Saw Old General at Bay
Walt Whitman—PD - 32
Julius
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
Longixus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 34
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Walt Whitman—PD - 35
Maiden
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
Meliboeus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
Money
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
Montaigne
James Russell Lowell—PD - 39
Much Madness is Divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson—PD - 40
Nathanael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
Nicanor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 42
Not the Pilot
Walt Whitman—PD - 43
Pharisees
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Philip
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
Prophet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston
James Russell Lowell—PD - 47
Race of Veterans
Walt Whitman—PD - 48
Supple-tempered will: One of the most pronounced traits of
James Russell Lowell—PD
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