Theme Poem Collections / Topic Poetry Anthologies

A collection of poems for spring, including classics by Tu Fu, William Shakespeare, Thomas Nashe, John Webster, Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Clare and Carl Sandburg, plus new poems on spring...

Our favorite baseball poems, selected for reading while you’re watching a game.

A collection of classic poems about motherhood, by Anne Bradstreet, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes.

A collection of classic poems about fatherhood, including classics by Su Tung-p’o, Robert Greene, Ben Jonson, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar A. Guest, Rudyard Kipling, Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Butler Yeats, plus father poems contributed by contemporary poets.

A collection of poems for summer, including an anonymous medieval lyric and classics by Li Po, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Henry David Thoreau, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Clare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edna St. Vincent Millay, plus selected new poems by contemporary poets.

A selection of classic American poems for Independence Day, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emma Lazarus, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg & Stephen Vincent Benét.

An anthology of poems written during the ‘War on Terrorism’ after the September 11, 2001 attack on America, from poets around the Net & in the About Poetry Forum.

A collection of poems for the fall season, including classics by William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carl Sandburg, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.

A collection of classic Halloween poems, including a selection from Shakespeare's MacBeth, the traditional ballad “Tam Lin” and poems by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville, Robert Herrick, Robert Burns, Edgar Allan Poe and Christina Rossetti.

A collection of classic poems on the passage of time and the human impulse to “Seize the Day,” by William Shakespeare, Thomas Jordan, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Ernest Henley and Robert Frost.

A selection of classic American poems for Election Day, by Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Vachel Lindsay and William Carlos Williams—plus two contemporary poems, one recounting the historic 2008 U.S. Presidential election by About Poetry Forum poet Guy Kettelhack and a post-election-day blues by Jim Finnegan.

A collection of classic war poems, by Li Po, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Carl Sandburg, Wilfred Owen, Alan Seeger, Robert Frost, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, William Butler Yeats and...

A selection of mostly American poems for Thanksgiving Day, including a translation of a traditional Iroquois song by Harriet Maxwell Converse and classic poems by Robert Herrick, Lydia Maria Child, John Greenleaf Whittier, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Kate Seymour Maclean, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thornton W. Burgess and Carl Sandburg.

We must do what we can... gather the voices of poets in a great chorus for peace... a small light in the gathering darkness, an online vigil made of poems.

A collection of poems for winter, including classics by William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Robert Burns, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Bronte, George Meredith, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.

An anthology of classic poems inspired by mariners, the sailing life and the sea itself, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Ezra Pound, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence and Carl Sandburg.

A collection of classic poems inspired by stormy weather—tempests, tornadoes, hurricanes and all manner of storms, by William Shakespeare, William Cullen Bryant, Walt Whitman, Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Siegfried Sassoon and Jean Toomer.

A collection of classic Christmas poems, by Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Walter Scott, Clement Clark Moore, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christina Rossetti, G.K. Chesterton, Sara Teasdale, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost.

A collection of classic poems for New Year’s, by Robert Burns, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Helen Hunt Jackson, Thomas Hardy and John Clare.

A collection of classic love poems by Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Butler Yeats.

A collection of classic poems written about President Abraham Lincoln, by Walt Whitman, James Russell Lowell, Julia Ward Howe, Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, Witter Bynner and Hyam Plutzik.

A collection of classic poems written about President George Washington, by Phillis Wheatley, George Gordon, Lord Byron, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier and Carl Sandburg, for President’s Day reading.