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Short Poems About Memoryin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about memory — 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
- 903
- Indexed poets
- 165
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 02
A Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
An Old Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
August
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 06
Brooding Grief
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 07
B. Ten years later a reprint ‘in exact facsimile’ of the Pisa
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 08
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 09
Butter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Cavalieri
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Changed Perspective
James Russell Lowell—PD - 13
Chorus of Reeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Collegisse juvat: The full sentence, in the first ode of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
Comma added at end of line:
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 16
Crier of the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Crier Op the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Delia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Dissolute
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 20
Druid wood: The Druids were the aged priests of the Celts, who
James Russell Lowell—PD - 21
Envoy
Eugene Field—PD - 22
Epimetheu5
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
Epitaph
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 24
February
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
First Scholar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh, Set up in St. Margaret's,
James Russell Lowell—PD - 27
Friar John
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
Gloyd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
Gottlieb
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Helen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Herod
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Holy Grail: According to medieval legend, the Sangreal was the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 33
Horace
Eugene Field—PD - 34
ia'
Sappho—PD - 35
ib'
Sappho—PD - 36
Idle mail: Useless, ineffectual protection. This figure carries
James Russell Lowell—PD - 37
Impressions of Homer
James Russell Lowell—PD - 38
Ippolito
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
January
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
Julia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
Kempthorn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 42
Lydia
Eugene Field—PD - 43
Manahen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Montaigne
James Russell Lowell—PD - 45
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Walt Whitman—PD - 46
October
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
On Fanny Godwin
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 48
Philip
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD
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