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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.
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§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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