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   <title>About.com Poetry: Most Popular Articles</title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of poems for winter, including classics by William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion, Robert Burns, Emily Dickinson &amp; Robert Frost, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 &amp; William Butler Yeats.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War and Remembrance]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 &amp; Thomas McGrath.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Thanksgiving Day]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Locate the Text of a Poem]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Blow, blow thou winter wind&#039; from As You Like It by William Shakespeare]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Blow, blow thou winter wind' from As You Like It by William Shakespeare]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Dust of Snow&#039; and &#039;Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening&#039; by Robert Frost]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Dust of Snow' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost (1923)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Spring Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 &amp; Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sonnet]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The sonnet defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic sonnets.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Acrostic Poem]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Acrostic poem defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic acrostic poems.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Over the River and Through the Wood&#039; by Lydia Maria Child]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Over the River and Through the Wood' by Lydia Maria Child (1844)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;War Is Kind&#039; by Stephen Crane (1899)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['War Is Kind' by Stephen Crane (1899)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;This Winter&#039; by Charles Mariano]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Now Winter Nights Enlarge&#039; by Thomas Campion]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Guide to Blake&#039;s &quot;The Tyger&quot;]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/tygerguide.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on William Blake's poem &quot;The Tyger&quot; from Songs of Experience (1794).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems After the Attack]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An anthology of poems written during the 'War on Terrorism' after the September 11, 2001 attack on America, from poets around the Net &amp; in the About Poetry Forum.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween Poems: The Witches&#039; Spell from Macbeth by William Shakespeare]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Witches' Spell from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Christmas Trees&#039; by Robert Frost (1920)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Christmas Trees' by Robert Frost (1920): christmas poems country fashion christmas trees balsams circular letter]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;There&#039;s a certain slant of light&#039; (#258) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['There's a certain slant of light' (#258) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/fatherpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic poems about fatherhood, by Su Tung-p&#146;o, Robert Greene, Ben Jonson, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar A. Guest, Rudyard Kipling, Gerard Manley Hopkins &amp; William Butler Yeats.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;In the Bleak Midwinter&#039; (1872) by Christina Rossetti]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['In the Bleak Midwinter' (1872) by Christina Rossetti]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Christmas Bells&#039; (1864) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Christmas Bells' (1864) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;The True Christmas&#039; by Henry Vaughan (1678)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Winter: A Dirge&#039; by Robert Burns (1781)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Winter: A Dirge' by Robert Burns (1781): winter poems leafless trees robert burns snaw helvetica font]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;A Thanksgiving Poem&#039; from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow by Paul Laurence Dunbar]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A Thanksgiving Poem' from Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Thanksgiving&#039; by Ella Wheeler Wilcox]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Summer Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 &amp; Gerard Manley Hopkins, plus new poems from contemporary poets around the world.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Thanksgiving Song&#039; from Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Thanksgiving Song' from Happy Jack by Thornton W. Burgess (1918)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic poems about motherhood, by Anne Bradstreet, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Guide to &quot;The Second Coming&quot;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on William Butler Yeats&#146; poem &#147;The Second Coming&#148; (1920).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Thanksgiving&#039; by Kate Seymour Maclean]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Memorize a Poem]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;The Pumpkin&#039; by John Greenleaf Whittier]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Aftermath&#039; by Siegfried Sassoon (1919)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[&quot;The Road Not Taken&quot; Guide]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Notes on form and content, commentary and annotations on Robert Frost's beloved but &quot;tricky&quot; poem, &quot;The Road Not Taken&quot; (published in his 1920 collection, Mountain Interval).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;It Was So Cold&#039; by Whitman McGowan]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;A Visit from St. Nicholas&#039; (1823) attributed to Clement Clark Moore, but probably written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1808)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A Visit from St. Nicholas' (1822) attributed to Clement Clark Moore, but probably written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1808)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Twas just this time last year I died&#039; (#445) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Twas just this time last year I died' (#445) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/p/poe.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Edgar Allan Poe, American Romantic poet, balladeer, journalist and inventor of the modern detective story and horror tale.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[HipHop, PerfPo, SpokenWd, Slam]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Definitions of 'open mic,' 'poetry slam,' 'spoken word,' 'performance poetry,' 'poetry,' 'hiphop' &amp; 'rap' from Eman, 16-year-old poet &amp; host of two weekly open mics. 'If you&#146;re looking for the definitions of the New Poetry from the younger generation, she&#146;s the one to ask.']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Christmas in the Olden Time&#039; by Sir Walter Scott (1808)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Christmas in the Olden Time' from Marmion by Sir Walter Scott (1808)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 &amp; William Butler Yeats.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Put Together a Manuscript]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poetrybooks/ht/howmanuscript.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Winter Conversation&#039; by Joyce Wakefield]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Winter Conversation' by Joyce Wakefield]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;One Day is there of the Series&#039; (#814) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['One Day is there of the Series' (#814) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;St. Crispin&#039;s Day speech,&#039; from Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['St. Crispin's Day speech,' from Henry V (1599) by William Shakespeare]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Not to Keep&#039; by Robert Frost (1917)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Not to Keep' by Robert Frost (1917)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;A Christmas Carol&#039; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1799)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blcoleridgechristmas.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['A Christmas Carol' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1799)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;The Charge of the Light Brigade&#039; by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bltennysonwar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Christmas Carol&#039; (1911) by Sara Teasdale]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;The Thanksgivings&#039; translated from a traditional Iroquois song by Harriet Maxwell Converse]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Thanksgivings' translated from a traditional Iroquois song by Harriet Maxwell Converse (1908)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Glossary of Poetic Forms]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Traditional poetic forms briefly defined.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;The Magi&#039; by William Butler Yeats (1916)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Magi' by William Butler Yeats (1916): william butler yeats poems by william butler yeats christmas poems w b yeats irish poet]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;The pure contralto sings in the organ loft&#039; from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blwhitmanthanksgiving.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The pure contralto sings in the organ loft' from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get Started Submitting]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/cs/zinesanthologies/ht/howsubmitpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A simple step-by-step outline to help you manage the process of submitting your poems for publication in print.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;In Flanders Fields&#039; by John McCrae (1915)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blmccraewar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae (1915): flanders fields john mccrae sunset glow poetic forms helvetica font]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Ceremonies for Christmas&#039; by Robert Herrick (1648)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Ceremonies for Christmas' by Robert Herrick (1648)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;On Being Asked for a War Poem&#039; by William Butler Yeats (1928)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['On Being Asked for a War Poem' by William Butler Yeats (1928)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;North Wind&#039; by Debbie Ouellet]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blouelletwinter.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blshakespearesonnet116.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1609): sonnet 116 by william shakespeare sonnet 116 william shakespeare valediction forbidding mourning rosy lips love poems]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Mistletoe&#039; (1913) by Walter de la Mare]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bldelamarechristmas.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Mistletoe' (1913) by Walter de la Mare: christmas poems walter de la mare green fairy last candle mistletoe]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;A Christmas Carol&#039; (1900) by G.K. Chesterton]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blchestertonchristmas.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['A Christmas Carol' by G.K. Chesterton: sara teasdale christmas poems g k chesterton true hearts page christmas]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Reaching for White&#039; by Lisa Shields]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blshieldswinter.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Lamb&#039; by William Blake]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blblakelamb.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Lamb' by William Blake (from Songs of Innocence, 1789)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/halloweenpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic Halloween poems, including a selection from Shakespeare's Macbeth, the traditional ballad 'Tam Lin' &amp; poems by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville, Robert Herrick, Robert Burns, George Gordon Lord Byron, Edgar Allan Poe &amp; Christina Rossetti.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Robert Frost]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/20thcenturypoets/p/frost.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Iron&#039; (1916) &amp; &#039;Grass&#039; (1918) by Carl Sandburg]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Blake]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/18thcpoets/p/blake.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;To Autumn&#039; by William Blake (1783)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Villanelle]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sestina]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The sestina defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic sestinas.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Song of Myself&#039; by Walt Whitman]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass, 1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Concrete Poetry/VisPo]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[       Index of Poems - Alphabetical by Poet Name     ]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Index by poet's name of the poems published at the About Poetry Web site.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Dulce et Decorum Est&#039; by Wilfrid Owen (1917)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Blizzard&#039; &amp; &#039;Sweet and Bitter&#039; by Barbara Reiher-Meyers]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;I Have a Rendezvous with Death&#039; by Alan Seeger (1917)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['I Have a Rendezvous with Death' by Alan Seeger (1917)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Abecedarian Poem]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Carpe Diem Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic poems on the passage of time and the human impulse to &#147;Seize the Day,&#148; by William Shakespeare, Thomas Jordan, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Ernest Henley and Robert Frost.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;In Time of &#039;The Breaking of Nations&#039;&#039; &amp; &#039;The Man He Killed&#039; by Thomas Hardy (1915)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'' & 'The Man He Killed' by Thomas Hardy (1915)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;A Prayer in Spring&#039; by Robert Frost (1915)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blfrostspring.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn&#039; by John Clare (1821)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blclareautumn.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Fire Dreams&#039; from Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Fire Dreams' from Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg (1918)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;The Oxen&#039; (1915) by Thomas Hardy]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Nefarious War&#039; by Li Po (c. 750)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Nefarious War,' by Li Po (c. 750)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Worst Poem of All Time]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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&#146;s &#147;The Tay Bridge Disaster.&#148;]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;To Autumn&#039; by John Keats (1820)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Road Not Taken&#039; by Robert Frost]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost (1920)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;To My Mother&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blpoemother.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['To My Mother' by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blwordsworthsolitaryreaper.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth (1803): solitary reaper by william wordsworth highland lass cuckoo bird william wordsworth arabian sands]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;Spring&#039; (song from Love&#039;s Labors Lost) by William Shakespeare (1598)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blshakespearespring.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Spring' (song from Love's Labors Lost) by William Shakespeare (1598)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Haiku]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Frost Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by Robert Frost, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth (1802): poems by william wordsworth natural piety william wordsworth rainbow in the sky helvetica font]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blwordsworthworld.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[&#147;The World Is Too Much With Us&#148; by William Wordsworth (1806)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: from &#039;Remembering That Island&#039; by Thomas McGrath (1972)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[from 'Remembering That Island' by Thomas McGrath (1972)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Winter in Maine on Rte 113&#039; &amp; &#039;Silent Solstice (Winter Becomes Maine)&#039; by Denis Dunn]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bldunnwinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Winter in Maine on Rte 113' & 'Silent Solstice (Winter Becomes Maine)' by Denis Dunn]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Dirge for Two Veterans&#039; by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Dirge for Two Veterans' by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Second Coming&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats (1920)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Collections of Love Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryaroundtheworld/tp/lovepoetry.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Anthologies and single poet collections of love poetry, classic and contemporary, from ancient and modern cultures all over the world, selected by your guides.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 73 - 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;An Acrostic&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['An Acrostic' by Edgar Allan Poe (1829)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;This was a Poet&#039; (#448) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;Peace Prayer&#039;]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa031903c.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Richard Burley's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;When You Are Old&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['When You Are Old' by William Butler Yeats (1893)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;The Autumn&#039; by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Walt Whitman]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/p/whitman.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Walt Whitman, quintessential American poet who sang of individual freedom, democracy &amp; the brotherhood of man in the many editions of his compendious masterpiece, Leaves of Grass.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Mother and Poet&#039; by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1862)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;Lines Written in Early Spring&#039; by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Drawing the Line: Ed Sanders&#039; 1968 is Poetry Book of the Year (1997)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Ode to the West Wind&#039; by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blshelleyodewestwind.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn Movement&#039; by Carl Sandburg (1918)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Spring Poems: &#039;Spring, the Sweet Spring&#039; from Summer&#039;s Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Butler Yeats]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/p/yeats.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on mystical/historical Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), a towering figure in 20th century literature in English, master of traditional verse forms and at the same time idol of the modernist poets who followed him.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poetry MP3 Picks]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/audiopoetry/tp/poetrymp3picks.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[In 2001, the About.com Poetry Guides made weekly selections of the best audio recordings of poems for your online listening pleasure.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[On Poems in Competition]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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?']]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Look Down, Fair Moon&#039; &amp; &#039;When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom&#039;d&#039; by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blwhitmanwar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Look Down, Fair Moon' & 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: Sonnet 14 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 14 from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Limerick]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poets/a/uslaureates.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)&#039; by Herman Melville (1866)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Shiloh: A Requiem (April 1862)' by Herman Melville (1866)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;Only a Dad&#039; by Edgar A. Guest (1916)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Only a Dad' by Edgar A. Guest (1916)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Nothing Gold Can Stay&#039; by Robert Frost (1923)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blfrostautumn.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['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]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2009 Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/blibpcwinners.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the winning poems in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2009, posted at About Poetry.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Palais d&#039;Hiver&#039; by Justine Nicholas]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Palais d'Hiver' by Justine Nicholas]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Spring and Fall&#039; by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['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]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn Song&#039; by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1883)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Autumn Song' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1883): dante gabriel rossetti autumn poems autumn song fall of the leaf robert louis stevenson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[To a Skylark by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[To a Skylark by William Wordsworth (1805)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Open Mic Definition]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/livepoetry/a/openmic.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Bob Holman defines &amp; explains the phenomenon of the poetry open mic, &quot;a meta-metaphor for freedom, a place where your art can be presented to the public at large,&quot; a place where &quot;all humans are created equal &#150; so long as you don&#146;t go over the time limit!&quot;]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[A Guide to Beowulf]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/beowulfguide.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Notes on context, form and content, commentary and quotations on the anonymous Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf (manuscript c. 1010).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Wordsworth]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/p/wordsworth.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Jupiter Hammon]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/18thcpoets/a/hammon.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Poe Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/poepoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by Edgar Allan Poe, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn Fires&#039; by Robert Louis Stevenson (1913)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blstevensonautumn.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Autumn Fires' by Robert Louis Stevenson (1913): autumn poems robert louis stevenson gray smoke smoke trail summer flowers]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pantoum]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/pantoum.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The pantoum defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to read examples of pantoums written in English.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Terza Rima]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/terzarima.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Terza rima defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Concrete Poems: &#039;Rain Song&#039; by Ruth Nott]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blnottconcrete.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Rain Song' by Ruth Nott: concrete poems rain song helvetica font body background puddles]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Underground Xmas&#039; by Jackie Sheeler]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blsheelerwinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Underground Xmas' by Jackie Sheeler: jackie sheeler roman battering ram winter poems york correspondent pink pony]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Making a Meal Out of It&#039; by Joel Lewis]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/bllewiswinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Making a Meal Out of It' by Joel Lewis: goodwill ambassador winter poems grave digger winter dreams snowtime]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/20thcenturypoets/p/plath.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reference page on Sylvia Plath, brilliant young confessional poet who committed suicide at the age of 30 amid the upheaval of her failed marriage to Ted Hughes, and became a poetic &amp; feminist icon after her death.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems from Poetry Africa 2003]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Poems gathered by Bob Holman at the 2003 Poetry Africa festival, by Akeem Lasisi, Timothy Wangusa, Lesego Rampolokeng, Lebogang Mashile &amp; Abdallah Zrika]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey&#039; by William Wordsworth]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blwordsworthtinternabbey.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems: &#039;To My Dear and Loving Husband&#039; by Anne Bradstreet (1678)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['To My Dear and Loving Husband' by Anne Bradstreet (1678)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[       InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2009 Archive     ]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/bl2009ibpcentries.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Archive of the poems that represented our About Poetry Forum in the monthly InterBoard Poetry Competition in 2009.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;A Poem for Peace in Two Voices&#039;]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa030403p.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Penn Kemp's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Incident in a Rose Garden,&#039; a poem by George Wallace]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A poem written in response to the First Lady's cancellation of the February 12, 2003 White House poetry symposium]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;If Peace Should Die&#039;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Terry E. Wilbur's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;Hands on a Gun&#039;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Rochelle Mass' contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;A light exists in spring&#039; (#812) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A light exists in spring' (#812) by Emily Dickinson]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Tyger&#039; by William Blake]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Tyger' by William Blake (from Songs of Experience, 1794)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky&#039; from Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blcarrollacrostic.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky' from Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (1871)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[What&#039;s Wrong with Contests]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[David Alpaugh, who has both run and won a poetry book contest himself, investigates what's wrong with the whole business of selecting poetry books for publication by holding a competition: Fraud is not the problem... why there's a boom in poetry contests...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[American Epic Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/20thcenturypoets/tp/tpamericanepics.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[We proclaimed Frank Stanford&amp;#8217;s The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You &amp;#8220;the great US epic of the last half of the 20th century&amp;#8221; and were immediately accosted: &amp;#8220;It&amp;#8217;s the ONLY epic poem!&amp;#8221; Wrong! we said. Here are more epics, recommended by your Poetry Guides.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;To Spring&#039; by William Blake (1783)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['To Spring' by William Blake (1783)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Ye Goat-herd Gods&#039; by Sir Philip Sidney (1590)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blsidneysestina.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Ye Goat-herd Gods,' a double sestina by Sir Philip Sidney (1590)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;Father&#039; by Edgar A. Guest (1909)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Father' by Edgar A. Guest (1909)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Tay Bridge Disaster&#039; by William Topaz McGonagall]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blmcgonagalltay.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Tay Bridge Disaster' by William Topaz McGonagall (1879)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Concrete Poems: &#039;The Bird&#039; and &#039;The Quill&#039; by Ernesto Santiago]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blsantiagoconcrete.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Bird' and 'The Quill' by Ernesto Santiago: limitless sky concrete poems airborne ranger helvetica font body background]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: Untitled haiku-like poem by Todd-Earl Rhodes]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrhodeswinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Untitled haiku-like poem by Todd-Earl Rhodes: winter poems literary journals page shortcut aloneness helvetica font]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;To My Mother&#039; by Christina Rossetti (1842)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['To My Mother' by Christina Rossetti (1842): christina rossetti great happiness sweet flowers poems for mothers helvetica font]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;Where Does Peace Start?&#039;]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa030403k.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Judy Puckett's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[After the Attack: Poems Worth Remembering]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa091201b.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Poems worth remembering in these dark days, by Carl Sandburg, William Butler Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, Edith Sitwell & W.H. Auden.]]></description>
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