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Spring Poems
A collection of poems for spring, including classics by Tu Fu, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence & Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Poems for Mothers: A collection of classic poems for Mother’s Day
A collection of classic poems about motherhood, by Anne Bradstreet, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling & Walt Whitman.

Poems for Fathers: A collection of classic poems for Father’s Day
A collection of classic poems about fatherhood, by Robert Greene, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling & Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Poems After the Attack
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.

Poems for Peace
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.

Poems of War: A collection of classic war poems
A collection of classic war poems, by Li Po, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Carl Sandburg, Wilfrid Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, William Butler Yeats & Thomas McGrath.

Summer Poems
A collection of poems for summer, including an anonymous medieval lyric and classics by Thomas Nashe, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Clare, Amy Lowell & Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Poems for Independence Day
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.

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

Poems for Election Day: A selection of American poems
A selection of classic American poems for Election Day, by Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier & William Carlos Williams -- plus a contemporary post-election blues by Jim Finnegan.

Poems for Thanksgiving Day: A selection of American poems
A selection of American poems for Thanksgiving Day, including a translation of a traditional Iroquois song by Harriet Maxwell Converse and classic poems by Lydia Maria Child, John Greenleaf Whittier, Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman.

Christmas Poems: A collection of classic poems for Christmas
A collection of classic Christmas poems, by Clement Clark Moore, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christina Rossetti, Sara Teasdale & Thomas Hardy.

Winter Poems
A collection of poems for winter, including classics by William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Emily Dickinson & Robert Frost -- plus new poems from contemporary poets.

Love Poems: A collection of classic poems for Valentine’s Day
A collection of classic love poems by Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning & William Butler Yeats.