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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.
- Short poems
- 31
- All poems in theme
- 366
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A Hymn
Horace—PD - 02
Anael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
A Pastoral
James Russell Lowell—PD - 04
Banner and Pennant
Walt Whitman—PD - 05
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 06
By Gil Vicente
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Chloe
James Russell Lowell—PD - 08
Chorus of Birds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Chorus of Monks
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
Daphnis
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
Distance
Archibald Lampman—PD - 13
Epistles
John Keats—PD - 14
Euphrosyne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
Friar Cuthbert
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
Friar Paul
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Horace
Eugene Field—PD - 18
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Sappho—PD - 19
i[st]'
Sappho—PD - 20
Kempthorn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
Max
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
Walt Whitman—PD - 23
[st]'
Sappho—PD - 24
The Best Medicines
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
Tityrus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
To His Servant
Horace—PD - 27
To Leuconoe
Horace—PD - 28
To Lyde
Horace—PD - 29
Traveller
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Upon receiving the news that the war was ended, Lowell wrote to
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
With a Pair of Gloves Lost in a Wager
James Russell Lowell—PD
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