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Short Poems About Hopein twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about hope — 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
- 393
- Indexed poets
- 46
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman1868PD - 02
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 03
If I can stop one heart from breaking
Emily Dickinson1890PD - 04
I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman1860PD - 05
Lines for a Sun-Dial
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 06
A Baby's Epitaph
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 07
A Fragment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Ah Sunflower
William Blake—PD - 09
Angels Ministrant
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
A Paraphrase
Eugene Field—PD - 11
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
A Woman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Belshazzar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
By Santa Teresa De Avila
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
Choir
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Chorus of Birds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Christian Love
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Christus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
December
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
Disciples
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Distance
Archibald Lampman—PD - 23
Elder than the Day: Elder than the first Day. "And God called
James Russell Lowell—PD - 24
From the Greek of Plato
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 25
Gaspar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
God
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
ig'
Sappho—PD - 28
I never saw a Moor
Emily Dickinson—PD - 29
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
James
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Lachesis
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Law of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
Like an outpost of winter: The cold, gloomy castle stands in
James Russell Lowell—PD - 34
Long, Too Long America
Walt Whitman—PD - 35
Love Song--Heine
Eugene Field—PD - 36
Manahen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
Mercy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
Onafiel
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
Orifel
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
Others
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
Paranymphus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 42
Philip
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
Prophet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Quintilianus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 45
Raphael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
The Angels
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
The Beggar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
The Best Medicines
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD
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