Articles Index
“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.
Autumn Poems
A collection of poems for the fall season, including classics by William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carl Sandburg, William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.
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.
Spring Poems
A collection of poems for spring, including classics by Tu Fu, William Shakespeare, Thomas Carew, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence & Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.
Poems for Fathers
A collection of classic poems about fatherhood, 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 & William Butler Yeats.
Poems for Mothers
A collection of classic poems about motherhood, by Anne Bradstreet, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes.
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.
Christmas Poems
A collection of classic Christmas poems, by Robert Herrick, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Clement Clark Moore (or Major Henry Livingston, Jr.), Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christina Rossetti, G.K. Chesterton, Sara Teasdale, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost & William Butler Yeats.
Poems for Election Day
A selection of classic American poems for Election Day, by Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Vachel Lindsay & William Carlos Williams, and a contemporary post-election blues by Jim Finnegan.
Winter Poems
A collection of poems for winter, including classics by William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson & Robert Frost, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.
Poems for Thanksgiving Day
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 Lawrence Dunbar, Thornton W. Burgess and Carl Sandburg.
Poems for Independence Day
A selection of classic poems about America for Independence Day, by William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emma Lazarus, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg & Stephen Vincent Benét.
Poems of War and Remembrance
A collection of classic war poems, by Li Po, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, John McCrae, Carl Sandburg, Wilfrid Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, William Butler Yeats & Thomas McGrath.
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.
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, George Gordon Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe & Christina Rossetti.
Love Poems
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.
Poems for Peace
An anthology of poems for peace, gathered at About Poetry during the war in Iraq, as the necessary successor to our Poems After the Attack collection of 9.11.01 poems.