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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Locate the Text of a Poem
A simple step-by-step outline of how to find the text of a poem on the Net when you can only remember one line.

Poems of War: 'War Is Kind' by Stephen Crane (1899)
'War Is Kind' by Stephen Crane (1899)

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.

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.

Halloween Poems: The Witches' Spell from Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Witches' Spell from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)

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: 'Not to Keep' by Robert Frost (1917)
'Not to Keep' by Robert Frost (1917)

Love Poems: Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)
Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)

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 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.

Edgar Allan Poe
A reference page on Edgar Allan Poe, American Romantic poet, balladeer, journalist and inventor of the modern detective story and horror tale.

Poems of War: 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae (1915)
'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae (1915): flanders fields john mccrae sunset glow poetic forms helvetica font

Poems of War: 'Aftermath' by Siegfried Sassoon (1919)
'Aftermath' by Siegfried Sassoon (1919): aftermath siegfried sassoon aftermath by siegfried sassoon war aftermath line trench parapets

Sonnet
The sonnet defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic sonnets.

Winter Poems: 'Dust of Snow' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost
'Dust of Snow' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost (1923)

Winter Poems: 'Blow, blow thou winter wind' from As You Like It by William Shakespeare
'Blow, blow thou winter wind' from As You Like It by William Shakespeare

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 of War: 'On Being Asked for a War Poem' by William Butler Yeats (1928)
'On Being Asked for a War Poem' by William Butler Yeats (1928)

A Guide to Blake's "The Tyger"
Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on William Blake's poem "The Tyger" from Songs of Experience (1794).

A Guide to "The Second Coming"
Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” (1920).

Love Poems: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609): sonnet 18 by william shakespeare sonnet 116 by william shakespeare sonnet 18 william shakespeare shall i compare thee to a summers day gold complexion

HipHop, PerfPo, SpokenWd, Slam
Definitions of 'open mic,' 'poetry slam,' 'spoken word,' 'performance poetry,' 'poetry,' 'hiphop' & 'rap' from Eman, 16-year-old poet & host of two weekly open mics. 'If you’re looking for the definitions of the New Poetry from the younger generation, she’s the one to ask.'

Acrostic Poem
Acrostic poem defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic acrostic poems.

Poems of War: 'Iron' (1916) & 'Grass' (1918) by Carl Sandburg
'Iron' (1916) & 'Grass' (1918) by Carl Sandburg

Poems of War: 'St. Crispin's Day speech,' from Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare
'St. Crispin's Day speech,' from Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare

Winter Poems: 'This Winter' by Charles Mariano
'This Winter' by Charles Mariano: warm fires winter poems hand fingers countless tales wind and rain

Poems of War: 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfrid Owen (1917)
'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfrid Owen (1917): misty panes haunting flares dulce et decorum clumsy helmets wilfrid owen

Winter Poems: 'Now Winter Nights Enlarge' by Thomas Campion
'Now Winter Nights Enlarge' by Thomas Campion: thomas campion winter poems winter nights helvetica font body background

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.

Memorize a Poem
You memorize because you have to, the poem was written for you and you must make it your own, step-by-step you learn it by heart...

Poems of War: 'I Have a Rendezvous with Death' by Alan Seeger (1917)
'I Have a Rendezvous with Death' by Alan Seeger (1917)

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.

Winter Poems: 'There's a certain slant of light' (#258) by Emily Dickinson
'There's a certain slant of light' (#258) by Emily Dickinson

Poems of War: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)
'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)

"The Road Not Taken" Guide
Notes on form and content, commentary and annotations on Robert Frost's beloved but "tricky" poem, "The Road Not Taken" (published in his 1920 collection, Mountain Interval).

Poems of War: 'Nefarious War' by Li Po (c. 750)
'Nefarious War,' by Li Po (c. 750)

'Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare' by Edna St. Vincent Millay
'Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare,' Sonnet from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923)

Poems of War: 'In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'' & 'The Man He Killed' by Thomas Hardy (1915)
'In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'' & 'The Man He Killed' by Thomas Hardy (1915)

Poems of War: 'Dirge for Two Veterans' by Walt Whitman (1900)
'Dirge for Two Veterans' by Walt Whitman (1900)

Love Poems: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1609): sonnet 116 by william shakespeare sonnet 116 william shakespeare valediction forbidding mourning rosy lips love poems

Winter Poems: 'It Was So Cold' by Whitman McGowan
'It Was So Cold' by Whitman McGowan

The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
“The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth (1806)

Autumn Poems: 'To Autumn' by William Blake (1783)
'To Autumn' by William Blake (1783): poetical sketches autumn poems spirits of the air shall dance roves

Autumn Poems: 'To Autumn' by John Keats (1820)
'To Autumn' by John Keats (1820): season of mists and mellow fruitfulness autumn by john keats mists and mellow fruitfulness to autumn by john keats autumn poems

Winter Poems: 'Winter: A Dirge' by Robert Burns (1781)
'Winter: A Dirge' by Robert Burns (1781): winter poems leafless trees robert burns snaw helvetica font

Sestina
The sestina defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic sestinas.

Poems of War: 'Mother and Poet' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1862)
'Mother and Poet' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1862)

Poems of War: from 'Remembering That Island' by Thomas McGrath (1972)
from 'Remembering That Island' by Thomas McGrath (1972)

Index of Poems - Alphabetical by Poet Name
Index by poet's name of the poems published at the About Poetry Web site.

Autumn Poems: 'The Autumn' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)
'The Autumn' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833): elizabeth barrett browning autumn poems lofty hill woods and waters summer flowers

Autumn Poems: 'Autumn' by John Clare (1821)
'Autumn' by John Clare (1821): autumn poems whistle down red berries summer flower john clare

Put Together a Manuscript
A simple step-by-step outline to help you gather your poems in manuscript form for submission to publishers or publication contests, transforming your sheaf of assorted poems into a book manuscript.

Haiku
Haiku defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.

July 4th Poems
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.

Christmas Poems: 'Christmas Trees' by Robert Frost (1920)
'Christmas Trees' by Robert Frost (1920): christmas poems country fashion christmas trees balsams circular letter

The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth (1803): solitary reaper by william wordsworth highland lass cuckoo bird william wordsworth arabian sands

'The Lamb' by William Blake
'The Lamb' by William Blake (from Songs of Innocence, 1789)

Christmas Poems: 'In the Bleak Midwinter' (1872) by Christina Rossetti
'In the Bleak Midwinter' (1872) by Christina Rossetti

Thanksgiving Poems: 'Over the River and Through the Wood' by Lydia Maria Child
'Over the River and Through the Wood' by Lydia Maria Child (1844)

Poems for Mothers: 'To My Mother' by Edgar Allan Poe
'To My Mother' by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

Villanelle
The villanelle defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.

Poetry MP3 Picks
In 2001, the About.com Poetry Guides made weekly selections of the best audio recordings of poems for your online listening pleasure.

Poems of War: 'Look Down, Fair Moon' & 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman (1900)
'Look Down, Fair Moon' & 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman (1900)

The Worst Poem of All Time
We invite you to partake in what we consider the absolute freefall of the bottomless barrel, the worst poem of all time: William Topaz McGonagall’s “The Tay Bridge Disaster.”

Autumn Poems: Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 73 - 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' by William Shakespeare (1609)

Poems for Peace: 'Peace Prayer'
Richard Burley's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems

Winter Poems: 'Winter Conversation' by Joyce Wakefield
'Winter Conversation' by Joyce Wakefield

Winter Poems: 'North Wind' by Debbie Ouellet
'North Wind' by Debbie Ouellet: winter poems animals on parade cricket magazine owl books hickory switch

William Wordsworth
A reference page on British Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), whose theory of poetry began the Romantic movement in English poetry at the end of the 18th century, and whose poems immortalize the sublime landscapes of his beloved Lake District.

On Poems in Competition
Our friend Kurt Heintz has some sage advice for the poet who asked this question: 'What is the reliability of the hundreds of poetry contests being run on the Net? Is it prudent to submit manuscripts to them?'

Library: Dickinson Poems
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Emily Dickinson, in chronological order.

'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman
'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass, 1900)

Get Started Submitting
A simple step-by-step outline to help you manage the process of submitting your poems for publication in print.

Christmas Poems: 'Christmas Bells' (1864) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
'Christmas Bells' (1864) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

About Poetry Forum Entries, November 2009 InterBoard Poetry Competition
Poems selected to represent the About Poetry Forum in the November 2009 InterBoard Poetry Competition.

InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2008 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2008.

'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats
'The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats (1920)

Abecedarian Poem
Abecedarian poem defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of poems written in abecedarian form.

Christmas Poems: 'The True Christmas' by Henry Vaughan (1678)
'The True Christmas' by Henry Vaughan (1678): christmas poems true christmas poor shepherds henry vaughan flowers and roses

Autumn Poems: 'Autumn Fires' by Robert Louis Stevenson (1913)
'Autumn Fires' by Robert Louis Stevenson (1913): autumn poems robert louis stevenson gray smoke smoke trail summer flowers

Autumn Poems: 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost (1923)
'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost (1923): autumn poems nothing gold can stay robert frost nothing gold can stay by robert frost helvetica font robert frost

InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2009 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2009.

Poems for Peace: 'A Poem Against War'
Karen Karpowich's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems

After the Attack: Poems Worth Remembering
Poems worth remembering in these dark days, by Carl Sandburg, William Butler Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, Edith Sitwell & W.H. Auden.

Winter Poems: 'Reaching for White' by Lisa Shields
'Reaching for White' by Lisa Shields: winter poems crystal air spring collection dervishes morning mist

'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth
'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth (1798)

A Guide to Beowulf
Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on the anonymous Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf (manuscript c. 1010).

InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2007 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2007.

InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2006 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2006.

Autumn Poems: 'Autumn Song' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1883)
'Autumn Song' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1883): dante gabriel rossetti autumn poems autumn song fall of the leaf robert louis stevenson

My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth (1802): poems by william wordsworth natural piety william wordsworth rainbow in the sky helvetica font

Glossary of Poetic Forms
Traditional poetic forms briefly defined.

Drawing the Line: Ed Sanders' 1968 is Poetry Book of the Year (1997)
This is 1997, not the most amazing year of the century. . . . But we have he who has refused to be burnt out, torch-bearer Ed Sanders, providing us with a way forward through the past.

Carpe Diem Poems
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.

Pablo Neruda
A reference page on Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973), Nobel laureate, diplomat, exile & returned native son of Chile, most respected & beloved Latin American poet, often called “the people’s poet.”

William Blake
A reference page on William Blake, visionary poet and artist who created his own mythology, wrote epics and children's rhymes, and made illustrated books that are admired icons centuries after his death.

Autumn Poems: 'Autumn Movement' by Carl Sandburg (1918)
'Autumn Movement' by Carl Sandburg (1918): autumn poems northwest wind mother of the year carl sandburg helvetica font

InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2005 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2005.

Poems for Spring: 'Spring' (song from Love's Labors Lost) by William Shakespeare (1598)
'Spring' (song from Love's Labors Lost) by William Shakespeare (1598)

Poems for Mothers: 'Mother to Son' by Langston Hughes (1922)
'Mother to Son' by Langston Hughes (1922): mother to son by langston hughes life for me aint been no crystal stair poet laureate carpet on the floor mother to son

'Among School Children' by William Butler Yeats
'Among School Children' by William Butler Yeats (1928)

Concrete Poetry/VisPo
A collection of poems in which the art is visual, and the typographical arrangement is as much a part of the poem's meaning as other more traditional poetic techniques -- including examples by Rinaldo Rasa, Alan Sondheim, Tree Riesener, and an anonymous Web poet.

Poems for Peace: 'A Poem for Peace in Two Voices'
Penn Kemp's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems

About the About.com Poetry Museletter
The About.com Poetry Museletter was a weekly email newsletter bringing reports from our worldwide correspondents from 1999 through the end of 2003.

Fibonacci Poems
All you need to know about Fibonacci poems, a new math-based poetic form that is proliferating on the Internet, by Georgia Luna Smith Faust.

Collections of Love Poems
Anthologies and single poet collections of love poetry, classic and contemporary, from ancient and modern cultures all over the world, selected by your guides.

Poems from Poetry Africa 2003
Poems gathered by Bob Holman at the 2003 Poetry Africa festival, by Akeem Lasisi, Timothy Wangusa, Lesego Rampolokeng, Lebogang Mashile & Abdallah Zrika

Robert Frost
A reference page on Robert Frost, celebrated American poet whose work is rooted in New England farm life, combining a modernist sensibility and sense of language in traditional verse forms.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A reference page on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), British Romantic poet of the Victorian era, best known for her Sonnets from the Portuguese, love poems written for her husband Robert Browning, with whom she eloped to Italy at the age of 40.

Christmas Poems: 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (1823) attributed to Clement Clark Moore, but probably written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1808)
'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (1822) attributed to Clement Clark Moore, but probably written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1808)

Winter Poems: 'Blizzard' & 'Sweet and Bitter' by Barbara Reiher-Meyers
'Blizzard' & 'Sweet and Bitter' by Barbara Reiher-Meyers

Thanksgiving Poems: 'The Pumpkin' by John Greenleaf Whittier
'The Pumpkin' by John Greenleaf Whittier (1850): john greenleaf whittier thanksgiving poems yellow fruit storm cloud thanksgiving day

Jupiter Hammon
A profile of Jupiter Hammon, actually the first African-American poet whose work was published, despite the often repeated claim that it was Phillis Wheatley, by George Wallace

Pantoum
The pantoum defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to read examples of pantoums written in English.

'The Wild Swans at Coole' by William Butler Yeats
'The Wild Swans at Coole' by William Butler Yeats (1919)

Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
A Net-annotated list of all the poets who have served the Library of Congress as Consultant (the old title) or Poet Laureate Consultant (the new title), linked to biographies and reference sites.

Autumn Poems: 'Spring and Fall' by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)
'Spring and Fall' by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918): gerard manley hopkins spring and fall by gerard manley hopkins autumn poems spring and fall gerard manley hopkins helvetica font

Limerick
The limerick defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.

Walt Whitman
A reference page on Walt Whitman, quintessential American poet who sang of individual freedom, democracy & the brotherhood of man in the many editions of his compendious masterpiece, Leaves of Grass.

InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2004 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2004.

Thanksgiving Poems: 'Thanksgiving Song' from Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess
'Thanksgiving Song' from Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess (1918)

Halloween Poems: 'Halloween' by Robert Burns
'Halloween' by Robert Burns (1785): halloween poems rude state poem 1 philosophic mind robert burns

Autumn Poems: 'November Snow' by Joseph Pacheco
'November Snow' by Joseph Pacheco: autumn poems pale yellows november snow final winter helvetica font

Poems for Peace: 'If Peace Should Die'
Terry E. Wilbur's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems

Phillis Wheatley
A brief profile of Phillis Wheatley, African slave, African American poet from the colonial/Revolutionary War period... the original voice of the Other on US shores.

Poems for Fall: 'The Oven Bird' by Robert Frost (1920)
'The Oven Bird' by Robert Frost (1920): poet robert frost poems by robert frost cherry bloom fall poems oven bird

Independence Day Poems: 'A Nation's Strength' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)
'A Nation's Strength' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)

Spring Poems: 'Spring, the Sweet Spring' from Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)
'Spring, the Sweet Spring' from Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)

'We Are Seven' by William Wordsworth
'We Are Seven' by William Wordsworth (1798): william wordsworth little maid helvetica font sisters and brothers body background

Emily Dickinson
A reference page on Emily Dickinson, reclusive 19th century poet who became known as the 'Belle of Amherst' and an iconic influence on American poetry after the posthumous publication of her work.

Thanksgiving Poems: 'Thanksgiving' by Kate Seymour Maclean
'Thanksgiving' by Kate Seymour Maclean (1880): thanksgiving poems church spire kate seymour autumn hills dewy grass

Love Poems: 'To My Dear and Loving Husband' by Anne Bradstreet (1678)
'To My Dear and Loving Husband' by Anne Bradstreet (1678)

Christmas Poems: 'A Christmas Carol' (1900) by G.K. Chesterton
'A Christmas Carol' by G.K. Chesterton: sara teasdale christmas poems g k chesterton true hearts page christmas

Summer Poems: 'A something in a summer's day' (#122) by Emily Dickinson
'A something in a summer's day' (#122) by Emily Dickinson

Poems for Fathers: 'Father' by Edgar A. Guest (1909)
'Father' by Edgar A. Guest (1909)

Poems for Spring: Sonnet 98 by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 98 - 'From you have I been absent in the spring' by William Shakespeare (1609)

Autumn Poems: 'Ode to the West Wind' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)
'Ode to the West Wind' by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)

Thanksgiving Poems: 'A Thanksgiving Poem' from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow by Paul Laurence Dunbar
'A Thanksgiving Poem' from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905)

Halloween Poems: 'Ulalume' by Edgar Allan Poe
'Ulalume' by Edgar Allan Poe (1847)

Poems for Spring: 'Lines Written in Early Spring' by William Wordsworth (1798)
'Lines Written in Early Spring' by William Wordsworth (1798)

InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2003 Archive
Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2003.

'Sestina' by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1872)
'Sestina' by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1872)

Poems for Fathers: 'Only a Dad' by Edgar A. Guest (1916)
'Only a Dad' by Edgar A. Guest (1916)

Poems of War: 'Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)' by Herman Melville (1866)
'Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)' by Herman Melville (1866)

Waka Waka Bang Splat! The World's First Internet Special-Characters Poem
A poem created entirely of special characters -- it can only be properly appreciated by reading it out loud.