The Reader's Atlas · Short Poems Edition · Aspirations & burdens
Short Poems About Workin twelve lines or fewer
One-screen poems about work — 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
- 13
- All poems in theme
- 153
- Indexed poets
- 2
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 02
Aglaia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 03
A Hymn
Horace—PD - 04
Benvenuto
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
Cardinal Marcello
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 06
Father
Walt Whitman—PD - 07
Fra Sebastiano
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
Goldsmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
Martha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
Not Youth Pertains to Me
Walt Whitman—PD - 11
To Neobule
Horace—PD - 12
Traveller
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
Urbino
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD
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