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
- 112
§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
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Sappho—PD - 34
In Horologium
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 35
Inscription for My Little Son's Silver Plate
Eugene Field—PD - 36
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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