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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
- 947
- Indexed poets
- 168
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 02
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Percy Bysshe Shelley1824PD - 03
A Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
An Old Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth—PD - 06
August
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 08
Brooding Grief
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 09
B. Ten years later a reprint ‘in exact facsimile’ of the Pisa
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 10
Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
Butter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
Canzone
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Cavalieri
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Changed Perspective
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
Chorus of Reeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
Collegisse juvat: The full sentence, in the first ode of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 17
Comma added at end of line:
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 18
Crier of the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Crier Op the Dead
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
Delia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
Dissolute
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 22
Druid wood: The Druids were the aged priests of the Celts, who
James Russell Lowell—PD - 23
Envoy
Eugene Field—PD - 24
Epimetheu5
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
Epitaph
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 26
Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H
Ben Jonson—PD - 27
February
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
First Scholar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh, Set up in St. Margaret's,
James Russell Lowell—PD - 30
Friar John
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
Gloyd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
Gottlieb
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
Green
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 34
Helen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Herod
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
Holy Grail: According to medieval legend, the Sangreal was the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 37
Horace
Eugene Field—PD - 38
ia'
Sappho—PD - 39
ib'
Sappho—PD - 40
Idle mail: Useless, ineffectual protection. This figure carries
James Russell Lowell—PD - 41
Impressions of Homer
James Russell Lowell—PD - 42
Ippolito
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
January
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Julia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
Kempthorn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
Lydia
Eugene Field—PD - 47
Manahen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
Montaigne
James Russell Lowell—PD
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