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Short Poems About Happinessin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about happiness — 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.
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- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A god goes with it: The god-like quality of real charity, of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 02
A HYMN.
Horace—PD - 03
A LITTLE BOOK OF WESTERN VERSE
Eugene Field—PD - 04
ANAEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
A PASTORAL
James Russell Lowell—PD - 06
BANNER AND PENNANT.
Walt Whitman—PD - 07
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 08
BY GIL VICENTE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
CANCELLED STANZA.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 10
CHLOE
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
CHORUS OF BIRDS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
CHORUS OF MONKS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 14
DAPHNIS
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
DISTANCE
Archibald Lampman—PD - 16
e'.
Sappho—PD - 17
EPISTLES
John Keats—PD - 18
EUPHROSYNE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
FRIAR CUTHBERT.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
FRIAR PAUL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
Half-virtues: Is Lowell disparaging the virtues of peace and
James Russell Lowell—PD - 22
HORACE
Eugene Field—PD - 23
ig'.
Sappho—PD - 24
i[st]'.
Sappho—PD - 25
JOHN KEATS
John Keats—PD - 26
KEMPTHORN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
MAX.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.
Walt Whitman—PD - 29
Real misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
SEC. II.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
SECOND SCHOLAR.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
SONGS
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
[st]'.
Sappho—PD - 34
THE BEST MEDICINES
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
The Search and its Reward.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
THE WORKS OF HORACE
Horace—PD - 37
TITYRUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
TO HIS SERVANT.
Horace—PD - 39
TO LEUCONOE.
Horace—PD - 40
TO LYDE.
Horace—PD - 41
TO THE QUEEN OF MY HEART.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 42
TRAVELLER
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
Upon receiving the news that the war was ended, Lowell wrote to
James Russell Lowell—PD - 44
VERSES ON A CAT.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 45
WITH A PAIR OF GLOVES LOST IN A WAGER
James Russell Lowell—PD - 46
z'.
Sappho—PD
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