Theme Poem Collections / Topic Poetry Anthologies
Poetry of Sport
Classic poems on themes of sports, athletics and competition.
Winter Poems
A collection of poems for winter, including classics by William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Robert Burns, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Charlotte Bronte, Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, George Meredith, Emily Dickinson, Robert Bridges, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Robert Frost, plus new poems from...
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 and Carl Sandburg, plus new poems on spring...
Poems for Thanksgiving Day: A Selection of Mostly 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, Kate Seymour Maclean, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thornton W. Burgess and Carl Sandburg.
Christmas Poems: A Collection of Classic Poems for the Christmas Holiday
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.
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, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, John McCrae,
Rupert Brooke, Carl Sandburg, Wilfred Owen, Alan Seeger, Robert Frost, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, William Butler Yeats and...
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 and Langston Hughes.
Summer Poems
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.
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.
Bird Poems
An anthology of classic poems about, addressed to or inspired by birds, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens 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.
Poems for Fathers: A Collection of Classic Poems for Father’s Day
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.
Storm Poems
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.
Love Poems: A Collection of Classic Poems for Valentine’s Day
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.
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” and poems by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville, Robert Herrick, Robert Burns, Edgar Allan Poe and Christina Rossetti.
Garden Poems
A collection of classic poems inspired by the spirit, the work and the experience of gardening, by Walt Whitman
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...
Poems of Sailors and Seafarers
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.
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 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.
“Seize the Day”
A collection of classic poems on the passage of time and the human impulse to “Seize the Day,” from the original “carpe diem” poem among the odes of Horace, to expressions of the theme in English poems by William Shakespeare, Thomas Jordan, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, John Gay, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Ernest...
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 Weddings
An anthology of classic poems celebrating marriage, or meant to be part of a wedding ceremony, by Sappho, Theocritus, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, Anne Bradstreet, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sidney Lanier and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Baseball Poems
Our favorite baseball poems, selected for reading while you’re watching a game.
Poems for President Lincoln
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.