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
- 30
- All poems in theme
- 153
- Indexed poets
- 0
§03 The index
Every poem in this theme
- 01
Morning at the Window
T. S. Eliot1917Excerpt - 02
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Sappho—PD - 03
A Farm in the Odenwald
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 04
AGLAIA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 05
A HYMN.
Horace—PD - 06
ARGUMENT OF THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK.
Homer—PD - 07
AT BETHANY
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 08
BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 09
BENVENUTO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 10
CANCELLED STANZA OF THE MASK OF ANARCHY.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 11
CARDINAL MARCELLO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 12
FARMER.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 13
FATHER.
Walt Whitman—PD - 14
FOLK-SONGS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 15
FRA SEBASTIANO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 16
FRA SEBASTIANO DEL PIOMBO
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 17
GOLDSMITH.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 18
MARTHA.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 19
MICHAEL ANGELO
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 20
MICHAEL ANGELO'S STUDIO
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 21
MONOLOGUE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 22
NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME.
Walt Whitman—PD - 23
SIMILES FOR TWO POLITICAL CHARACTERS OF 1819.
Percy Bysshe Shelley—PD - 24
THE DEAD CHRIST.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 25
The peasant leaves his plough afield
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 26
THE VOICE OF ZEUS.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 27
TO NEOBULE.
Horace—PD - 28
TRAVELLER
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 29
triumphs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD - 30
URBINO.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—PD
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