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
- 736
- Indexed poets
- 114
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W. B. Yeats1899PD - 02
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Percy Bysshe Shelley1824PD - 03
On My First Son
Ben Jonson1616PD - 04
The Rose Family
Robert Frost1928Excerpt - 05
A Chaucerian Paraphrase of Horace
Eugene Field—PD - 06
A Hate-Song
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 07
A Mother
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Anael
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Antiochus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
A Paraphrase
Eugene Field—PD - 11
A Pastoral
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
April
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Architriclinus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
A Story from Boccaccio
John Keats—PD - 15
Both
James Russell Lowell—PD - 16
By Gil Vicente
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
By Jean Froissart
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Changed Perspective
James Russell Lowell—PD - 20
Chloe
James Russell Lowell—PD - 21
Chorus of Birds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Christian Love
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
Daphnis
James Russell Lowell—PD - 24
Delicate Cluster
Walt Whitman—PD - 25
Desire
Samuel Taylor Coleridge—PD - 26
Dissolute
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 27
E. F
Eugene Field—PD - 28
Elsie
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
Epimetheus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Epitaph
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 31
Euphrosyne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats—PD - 33
Glove of Black in White Hand Bare
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
Green
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 35
Holy Supper: The Last Supper of Christ and his disciples, upon
James Russell Lowell—PD - 36
Horace
Eugene Field—PD - 37
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Sappho—PD - 38
In Horologium
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 39
Inscription for My Little Son's Silver Plate
Eugene Field—PD - 40
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Sappho—PD - 41
I Would Live in Your Love
Sara Teasdale—PD - 42
iz'
Sappho—PD - 43
Joseph
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Julia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
Love and Friendship
Emily Brontë—PD - 46
Love Song--Heine
Eugene Field—PD - 47
Lydia
Eugene Field—PD - 48
Martha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD