The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition
Short Poems About Social Class and Inequalityin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about social class and inequality — 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.
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- 344
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- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 02
A Jew
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
Another Judge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 05
Caiaphas
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Edith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 07
Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats—PD - 08
Father
Walt Whitman—PD - 09
Fra Sebastiano
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
It must not be forgotten that this old Sir Launfal is only in the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 12
Julius
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
kg'
Sappho—PD - 14
Like an outpost of winter: The cold, gloomy castle stands in
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
Much Madness is Divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson—PD - 16
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Walt Whitman—PD - 17
Paranymphus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Poverty and Blindness
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Roundhead and Cavalier: In a general way, it is said that New
James Russell Lowell—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
Supple-tempered will: One of the most pronounced traits of
James Russell Lowell—PD - 23
The Young Ruler
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 24
To Chloris
Horace—PD - 25
To Neobule
Horace—PD - 26
Who now shall sneer? In a letter to Mr. J.B. Thayer, who had
James Russell Lowell—PD