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
- 442
- Indexed poets
- 80
§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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