The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Mortality & time
Short Poems About Timein twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about time — 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
- 443
- Indexed poets
- 81
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Death by Water
T. S. Eliot1922Excerpt - 02
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound1913Excerpt - 03
Lines for a Sun-Dial
Alfred Noyes1922Excerpt - 04
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost1923Excerpt - 05
A Fragment
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
An echo of _Macbeth_, V, 5:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 07
An Elder
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
A Pastoral
James Russell Lowell—PD - 09
A Priest
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
April
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 11
Atropos
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
August
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
James Russell Lowell—PD - 14
Both
James Russell Lowell—PD - 15
B. Ten years later a reprint ‘in exact facsimile’ of the Pisa
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 16
By Christoph August Tiedge
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
By Santa Teresa De Avila
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
Cardinal Marcello
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
Cavalieri
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
Changed Perspective
James Russell Lowell—PD - 21
Chloe
James Russell Lowell—PD - 22
Comma added at end of line:
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 23
Compare _Al Fresco_, lines 34-39:
James Russell Lowell—PD - 24
Daphnis
James Russell Lowell—PD - 25
December
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
For a Bell at Cornell University
James Russell Lowell—PD - 27
Four by the Clock
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 28
From the Italian of Giovanni Strozzi
Algernon Charles Swinburne—PD - 29
Horace
Eugene Field—PD - 30
id'
Sappho—PD - 31
January
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 32
July
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 33
June
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 34
May
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 35
Monk
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 36
October
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 37
Retribution
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 38
September
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 39
Shakespeare
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 40
Sleep and Poetry
John Keats—PD - 41
So in _Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line_, when robin-redbreast sees
James Russell Lowell—PD - 42
th'
Sappho—PD - 43
The following apparent errors in the source text were corrected:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 44
Titian
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 45
To Chloris
Horace—PD - 46
To Leuconoe
Horace—PD - 47
To Ligurinus
Horace—PD - 48
To Lyde
Horace—PD
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