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Short Poems About Identityin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about identity — 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
- 1,320
- Indexed poets
- 207
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Death by Water
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 02
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 03
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 04
A Chaucerian Paraphrase of Horace
Eugene Field—PD - 05
A Fragment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Aglaia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
A Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
A Misconception
James Russell Lowell—PD - 09
An Army Corps on the March
Walt Whitman—PD - 10
An echo of _Macbeth_, V, 5:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
An Elder
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
An Old Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Another Judge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Antiochus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
A Priest
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
Architriclinus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Art and Tact
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 19
Atropos
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
August
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
A Woman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Banner and Pennant
Walt Whitman—PD - 23
Bellingham
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
Benvenuto
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
B. Ten years later a reprint ‘in exact facsimile’ of the Pisa
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 26
Butter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
By a Wonderful Quiz
James Russell Lowell—PD - 28
By Christoph August Tiedge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
By Jean Froissart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Caiaphas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Cardinal Marcello
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Child
Walt Whitman—PD - 33
Chilion
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
Chorus of Dryades
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Christus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
Clotho
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
Collegisse juvat: The full sentence, in the first ode of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 38
Comma added at end of line:
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 39
Creeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
Deacon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
Delicate Cluster
Walt Whitman—PD - 42
Desire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—PD - 43
Doctor Serafino
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
draws all his characters quite _à la_ Fuseli,--
James Russell Lowell—PD - 45
Druid wood: The Druids were the aged priests of the Celts, who
James Russell Lowell—PD - 46
Edith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
E. F
Eugene Field—PD - 48
Envoy
Eugene Field—PD
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