The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition
Short Poems About Sacrificein twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about sacrifice — 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
- 37
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- 441
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
A Hymn
Horace—PD - 02
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 03
Delicate Cluster
Walt Whitman—PD - 04
Elder than the Day: Elder than the first Day. "And God called
James Russell Lowell—PD - 05
Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats—PD - 06
Forester
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Gaspar
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
God
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Greeks of Gadara
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Holy Grail: According to medieval legend, the Sangreal was the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
Holy Supper: The Last Supper of Christ and his disciples, upon
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
I Saw Old General at Bay
Walt Whitman—PD - 13
Joseph
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
kg'
Sappho—PD - 15
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Walt Whitman—PD - 16
Manahen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
Martha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Melchior
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Walt Whitman—PD - 20
Ode XIII. to the Bandusian Fountain
Horace—PD - 21
On Diana and Apollo
Horace—PD - 22
Prometheus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston
James Russell Lowell—PD - 24
Simon Magus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
Sirion
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
The Angels
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
The Child Christ
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
The Young Ruler
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
Thomas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
Tityrus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
To Diana
Horace—PD - 32
To My Mother
Archibald Lampman—PD - 33
Wept with the passion, etc.: An article in the _Atlantic
James Russell Lowell—PD - 34
Wharton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Who now shall sneer? In a letter to Mr. J.B. Thayer, who had
James Russell Lowell—PD - 36
Without avail: Was Sir Launfal's long quest entirely without
James Russell Lowell—PD - 37
With this passage read the last two stanzas of _Mr. Hosea Biglow
James Russell Lowell—PD