The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Mortality & time
Short Poems About Sorrowin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about sorrow — 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
- 767
- Indexed poets
- 97
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Dust of Snow
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 02
A BABY'S EPITAPH
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 03
A HATE-SONG.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 04
AN ELDER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
ANGELS MINISTRANT.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Ashes and dust: Explain the metaphor. Compare with "sackcloth
James Russell Lowell—PD - 07
A STORY FROM BOCCACCIO.
John Keats—PD - 08
BINDO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
BOTH
James Russell Lowell—PD - 10
BROODING GRIEF
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 11
BYSTANDERS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
CAIAPHAS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
CHILION.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 14
CHORUS OF REEDS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
CHRISTIAN LOVE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
CREEDS
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
CRIER OF THE DEAD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
CRIER OP THE DEAD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
DELIA
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
DISCIPLES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
DISSOLUTE
D. H. Lawrence—PD - 22
EDITH.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 23
E. F.
Eugene Field—PD - 24
EPIMETHEU5.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
FATHER.
Walt Whitman—PD - 26
FEBRUARY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
FORESTER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
FROM THE ITALIAN OF MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 29
FUGITIVES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
GASPAR.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 31
GLOVE OF BLACK IN WHITE HAND BARE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
GLOYD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
GOD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
GOTTLIEB.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
HEAVEN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
HELEN.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
HEROD.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
HORACE
Eugene Field—PD - 39
ib'.
Sappho—PD - 40
I like a look of Agony
Emily Dickinson—PD - 41
Infant Sorrow
William Blake—PD - 42
It must not be forgotten that this old Sir Launfal is only in the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 43
JAMES.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
JEWS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
JOSEPH.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 46
JULIA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 47
ka'.
Sappho—PD - 48
kg'.
Sappho—PD
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