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Short Poems About Lonelinessin twelve lines or fewer

One-screen poems about loneliness — 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
35
All poems in theme
292
Indexed poets
62

§03 The index

Every poem in this theme

Showing 35 of 35
  1. 01

    In a Station of the Metro

    Excerpt
  2. 02

    Morning at the Window

    Excerpt
  3. 03

    Ah Sunflower

    PD
  4. 04

    A JEW.

    PD
  5. 05

    ANTIOCHUS.

    PD
  6. 06

    A STORY FROM BOCCACCIO.

    PD
  7. 07

    BOTH

    PD
  8. 08

    BY JEAN FROISSART

    PD
  9. 09

    CHANGED PERSPECTIVE

    PD
  10. 10

    CHLOE

    PD
  11. 11

    CHOIR.

    PD
  12. 12

    DAPHNIS

    PD
  13. 13

    DISTANCE

    PD
  14. 14

    ENVOY

    PD
  15. 15

    FOUR BY THE CLOCK.

    PD
  16. 16

    HELEN.

    PD
  17. 17

    ia'.

    PD
  18. 18

    ie'.

    PD
  19. 19

    IN HOROLOGIUM.

    PD
  20. 20

    JAMES.

    PD
  21. 21

    Like an outpost of winter: The cold, gloomy castle stands in

    PD
  22. 22

    MARY, MOTHER OF JAMES.

    PD
  23. 23

    MONK.

    PD
  24. 24

    ON FANNY GODWIN.

    PD
  25. 25

    POVERTY AND BLINDNESS

    PD
  26. 26

    RECUERDO DE MADRID

    PD
  27. 27

    SAMARITAN WOMAN.

    PD
  28. 28

    SILENT LOVE

    PD
  29. 29

    SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY

    PD
  30. 30

    THE DAUGHTER.

    PD
  31. 31

    THE PETITION

    PD
  32. 32

    VALDESSO.

    PD
  33. 33

    VICTORIA.

    PD
  34. 34

    VITTORIA.

    PD
  35. 35

    VOICES OF THE NIGHT

    PD

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