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Poems About Mercyin the open canon
- Indexed poems
- 192
- Indexed poets
- 0
- Short poems
- 28
Where to begin with mercy
Three ways in01 · Most-read entry
Acon
by H. D., 1924
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02 · Editor's pick
An Open Boat
by Alfred Noyes, 1922
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03 · Counterpoint
Ash Wednesday
by T. S. Eliot, 1930
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§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Acon
H. D.1924Excerpt - 02
An Open Boat
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 03
Ash Wednesday
T. S. Eliot1930Excerpt - 04
Compensations
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 05
Helios
H. D.1924Excerpt - 06
Orchard
H. D.1916Excerpt - 07
Prisoners
H. D.1924Excerpt - 08
Slave and Emperor
Alfred Noyes1918Excerpt - 09
The Chimney-Sweeps of Cheltenham
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 10
The Death of the Hired Man
Robert Frost1914Excerpt - 11
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus1883PD - 12
To a Mouse
Robert Burns1785PD - 13
What the Thunder Said
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 14
67:—
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 15
Abu Midjan
Eugene Field—PD - 16
Acadia and the Acadians
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
A Contrast
James Russell Lowell—PD - 18
Act V
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
A Gadarene
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
A god goes with it: The god-like quality of real charity, of
James Russell Lowell—PD
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Short poems about mercy
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