The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Bonds & belonging
Short Poems About Lovein twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about love — 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
- 685
- Indexed poets
- 113
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 02
A CHAUCERIAN PARAPHRASE OF HORACE
Eugene Field—PD - 03
A HATE-SONG.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 04
A MOTHER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
ANAEL.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
ANTIOCHUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
A PARAPHRASE
Eugene Field—PD - 08
A PASTORAL
James Russell Lowell—PD - 09
APRIL
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
ARCHITRICLINUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
A STORY FROM BOCCACCIO.
John Keats—PD - 12
BOTH
James Russell Lowell—PD - 13
BY GIL VICENTE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
BY JEAN FROISSART
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
CHANGED PERSPECTIVE
James Russell Lowell—PD - 17
CHLOE
James Russell Lowell—PD - 18
CHORUS OF BIRDS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
CHRISTIAN LOVE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
DAPHNIS
James Russell Lowell—PD - 21
DELICATE CLUSTER.
Walt Whitman—PD - 22
Desire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—PD - 23
DISSOLUTE
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 24
E. F.
Eugene Field—PD - 25
ELSIE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
EPIMETHEUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
EPITAPH.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 28
EUPHROSYNE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
EVE OF ST. AGNES.
John Keats—PD - 30
GLOVE OF BLACK IN WHITE HAND BARE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Holy Supper: The Last Supper of Christ and his disciples, upon
James Russell Lowell—PD - 32
HORACE
Eugene Field—PD - 33
ie'.
Sappho—PD - 34
IN HOROLOGIUM.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 35
INSCRIPTION FOR MY LITTLE SON'S SILVER PLATE
Eugene Field—PD - 36
i[st]'.
Sappho—PD - 37
iz'.
Sappho—PD - 38
JOSEPH.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
JULIA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
LOVE SONG--HEINE
Eugene Field—PD - 41
LYDIA
Eugene Field—PD - 42
MARTHA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
MAX.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
MONNA LISA
James Russell Lowell—PD - 45
ONE OF THE MEN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
O TAN-FACED PRAIRIE-BOY.
Walt Whitman—PD - 47
RECONCILIATION.
Walt Whitman—PD - 48
SILENT LOVE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD