Theme Poem Collections - The About Poetry Anthologies

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.

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.

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.

Autumn Poems
A collection of poems for the fall season, including classics by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 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” & 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, 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.

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, Sir Walter Scott, Clement Clark Moore, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christina Rossetti, G.K. Chesterton, Sara Teasdale, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost.

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.