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Short Poems About Sadnessin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about sadness — 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
- 560
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 02
A Covered Bridge at Lucerne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
ACT V.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
AN ELDER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
ARGUMENT OF THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK.
Homer—PD - 06
ARGUMENT OF THE SIXTH BOOK.
Homer—PD - 07
A SERPENT-FACE.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 08
AUGUST, 1810.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 09
BINDO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Blinding anguish: An allusion to the death of his little
James Russell Lowell—PD - 11
BYSTANDERS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
BY THE FIRESIDE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
CHORUS OF REEDS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
CHRISTIAN LOVE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
CONSOLATION
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
DISCIPLES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
DRUM-TAPS
Walt Whitman—PD - 18
FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 19
FLOWER-DE-LUCE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
FORESTER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
GIOVAN ANDREA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
GLOYD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
GOTTLIEB.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
HELEN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
ia'.
Sappho—PD - 26
ib'.
Sappho—PD - 27
I like a look of Agony
Emily Dickinson—PD - 28
Infant Sorrow
William Blake—PD - 29
JEWS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
J.W.A.
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
ka'.
Sappho—PD - 32
kg'.
Sappho—PD - 33
LINES WRITTEN AMONG THE EUGANEAN HILLS.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 34
LOVE SONG--HEINE
Eugene Field—PD - 35
LO, VICTRESS ON THE PEAKS.
Walt Whitman—PD - 36
MARENGHI.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 37
MELIBOEUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
MONEY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
MONK.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
MONOLOGUE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
ON FANNY GODWIN.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 42
O - - O - - O - - O - - O - - O -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 43
POEMS ON SLAVERY.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
RECONCILIATION.
Walt Whitman—PD - 45
RECUERDO DE MADRID
James Russell Lowell—PD - 46
SEC. V.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
See Exodus XXIV, 29-35.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 48
SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY
James Russell Lowell—PD
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