The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition
Short Poems About Language and Communicationin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about language and communication — 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.
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§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Lines for a Sun-Dial
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 02
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 03
A Hate-Song
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 04
A Misconception
James Russell Lowell—PD - 05
A Mother
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
An Old Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
A Paraphrase
Eugene Field—PD - 08
August
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Bellingham
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Benvenuto
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Child
Walt Whitman—PD - 14
Chorus of Reeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
Christus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
Collegisse juvat: The full sentence, in the first ode of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 17
Crier of the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Deacon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Desire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—PD - 20
Doctor Serafino
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
Druid wood: The Druids were the aged priests of the Celts, who
James Russell Lowell—PD - 22
Epistles
John Keats—PD - 23
Forest-crypt: The crypt of a church is the basement, filled
James Russell Lowell—PD - 24
Fra Sebastiano
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
Goldsmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
ia'
Sappho—PD - 27
Impressions of Homer
James Russell Lowell—PD - 28
International Copyright
James Russell Lowell—PD - 29
John
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Longixus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
Montaigne
James Russell Lowell—PD - 32
Norton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
Not the Pilot
Walt Whitman—PD - 34
Ode XIII. to the Bandusian Fountain
Horace—PD - 35
On Diana and Apollo
Horace—PD - 36
On Fanny Godwin
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 37
O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
Walt Whitman—PD - 38
Paranymphus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
Pharisees
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
Priest
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
Quintilianus
James Russell Lowell—PD - 42
Raphael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
Rhymes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Samaritan Woman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
Silent Love
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
Simon Magus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
Squadron-strophes: The term _strophe_ originally was applied to
James Russell Lowell—PD - 48
Swett from the meetin' house steeple up to th' old perrish, an' took
James Russell Lowell—PD