The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition
Short Poems About Mercyin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about mercy — 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
- 28
- All poems in theme
- 192
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A Hymn
Horace—PD - 02
Another Judge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
A Paraphrase
Eugene Field—PD - 04
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 05
A Woman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Endicott
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
God
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Greeks of Gadara
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Heaven
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Herod
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Holy Supper: The Last Supper of Christ and his disciples, upon
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Justice
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
Like an outpost of winter: The cold, gloomy castle stands in
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
Look Down Fair Moon
Walt Whitman—PD - 16
Mercy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
On Diana and Apollo
Horace—PD - 18
Others
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Reconciliation
Walt Whitman—PD - 20
Samaritan Woman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
So he tossed ... in scorn: This is the turning-point of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 22
Talitha Cumi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
The Beggar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
The Crowd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
The Daughter
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
The Demoniac
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
The Father
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
Voices of the Night
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD