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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
- 44
- 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
An Elder
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
Bindo
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
Bystanders
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Chorus of Reeds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Christian Love
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Disciples
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Forester
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Gloyd
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Gottlieb
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Helen
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
ia'
Sappho—PD - 13
ib'
Sappho—PD - 14
I like a look of Agony
Emily Dickinson—PD - 15
Infant Sorrow
William Blake—PD - 16
Jews
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
ka'
Sappho—PD - 18
kg'
Sappho—PD - 19
Love Song--Heine
Eugene Field—PD - 20
Lo, Victress on the Peaks
Walt Whitman—PD - 21
Meliboeus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
Money
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
Monk
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
On Fanny Godwin
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 25
Reconciliation
Walt Whitman—PD - 26
Recuerdo De Madrid
James Russell Lowell—PD - 27
Sixty-Eighth Birthday
James Russell Lowell—PD - 28
Song from the Wandering Jew
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 29
Talitha Cumi
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
The Broken Tryst
James Russell Lowell—PD - 31
The Father
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
The Four Virtues
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
The Moniment
James Russell Lowell—PD - 34
Thomas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Titian
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
To Ligurinus
Horace—PD - 37
To Neobule
Horace—PD - 38
Victoria
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
Voices of the Night
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 40
Walcot
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 41
Wept with the passion, etc.: An article in the _Atlantic
James Russell Lowell—PD - 42
Who now shall sneer? In a letter to Mr. J.B. Thayer, who had
James Russell Lowell—PD - 43
With the Night
Archibald Lampman—PD - 44
Year that Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
Walt Whitman—PD
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