The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition
Short Poems About Journeyin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about journey — 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
- 575
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Death by Water
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 02
Ah Sunflower
William Blake—PD - 03
An Army Corps on the March
Walt Whitman—PD - 04
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 05
Benvenuto
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Bivouac on a Mountain Side
Walt Whitman—PD - 07
Butter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
By Christoph August Tiedge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
By Gil Vicente
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Walt Whitman—PD - 11
Changed Perspective
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
Distance
Archibald Lampman—PD - 13
E. F
Eugene Field—PD - 14
First Scholar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
Four by the Clock
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 17
Friar John
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
From the Greek
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 19
Gloyd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
Herod
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
Holy Grail: According to medieval legend, the Sangreal was the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 22
Idle mail: Useless, ineffectual protection. This figure carries
James Russell Lowell—PD - 23
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
It must not be forgotten that this old Sir Launfal is only in the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 25
James
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
Joseph
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
Long, Too Long America
Walt Whitman—PD - 28
Melchior
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
Not the Pilot
Walt Whitman—PD - 30
November
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Orifel
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Paranymphus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
Philip
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
Prophet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
September
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
Sin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
Sixty-Eighth Birthday
James Russell Lowell—PD - 38
Sleep and Poetry
John Keats—PD - 39
So he tossed ... in scorn: This is the turning-point of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 40
The Angels
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
The Beggar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 42
The Coasts of Caesarea Philippi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
The Four Virtues
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
The little brook: In a letter written in December, 1848, Lowell
James Russell Lowell—PD - 45
Theme: The theme, subject, or underlying thought of the poem is
James Russell Lowell—PD - 46
The Musing organist: There is a peculiar felicity in this musical
James Russell Lowell—PD - 47
Titian
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
To His Lyre
Horace—PD