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Theme Poem Collections - The About Poetry Anthologies

Winter Poems

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

Christmas Poems: A collection of classic poems for Christmas

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.

Nursery Rhymes

A collection of classic English and American nursery rhymes—the lullabyes, counting games, riddles and rhymed fables that are children’s earliest experiences of poetry.

“Seize the Day”

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.

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 of War and Remembrance: A collection of classic war poems

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, John McCrae, Carl Sandburg, Wilfrid Owen, Alan Seeger, Robert Frost, Siegfried Sassoon, William Butler Yeats & Thomas McGrath.

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 for the New Year

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.

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.

Spring Poems

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 & Carl Sandburg, plus new poems on spring themes from contemporary poets around the world.

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 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.

Summer Poems

A collection of poems for summer, including an anonymous medieval lyric and classics by Thomas Nashe, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Clare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amy Lowell & Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.

Autumn Poems

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.

Halloween Poems

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.

Poems for Election Day: A selection of American poems

A selection of classic American poems for Election Day, by Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Vachel Lindsay & 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.

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