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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
- 379
- Indexed poets
- 45
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 02
LINES FOR A SUN-DIAL
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 03
A BABY'S EPITAPH
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 04
A FRAGMENT
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Ah Sunflower
William Blake—PD - 06
ANGELS MINISTRANT.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
A PARAPHRASE
Eugene Field—PD - 08
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 09
A WOMAN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
BELSHAZZAR.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
BY SANTA TERESA DE AVILA
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
CHOIR.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
CHORUS OF BIRDS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
CHRISTIAN LOVE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
CHRISTUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
DECEMBER
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
DISCIPLES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
DISTANCE
Archibald Lampman—PD - 20
Elder than the Day: Elder than the first Day. "And God called
James Russell Lowell—PD - 21
FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 22
GASPAR.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
GOD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
ig'.
Sappho—PD - 25
I never saw a Moor
Emily Dickinson—PD - 26
INSCRIPTION ON THE SHANKLIN FOUNTAIN
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
JAMES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
LACHESIS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
LAW OF LIFE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Like an outpost of winter: The cold, gloomy castle stands in
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
LONG, TOO LONG AMERICA.
Walt Whitman—PD - 32
LOVE SONG--HEINE
Eugene Field—PD - 33
MANAHEN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
MERCY.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
ONAFIEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
ORIFEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
OTHERS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
PARANYMPHUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
PHILIP.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
PROPHET.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
QUINTILIANUS.
James Russell Lowell—PD - 42
RAPHAEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
THE ANGELS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
THE BEGGAR.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
THE BEST MEDICINES
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
THE CHILD CHRIST.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
THE CROWD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
THE DAUGHTER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD
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