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   <title>About.com Poetry: Most Popular Articles</title>
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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[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[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[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[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[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[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 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[Halloween Poems]]></title>
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         <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[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[Locate the Text of a Poem]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <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[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[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[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[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[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[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[Poems of War: &#039;Aftermath&#039; by Siegfried Sassoon (1919)]]></title>
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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[Poems of War: &#039;In Flanders Fields&#039; by John McCrae (1915)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/motherpoems.htm</link>
         <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[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[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[Love Poems: Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
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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[Poems of War: &#039;Iron&#039; (1916) &amp; &#039;Grass&#039; (1918) by Carl Sandburg]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Iron' (1916) & 'Grass' (1918) by Carl Sandburg]]></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[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[&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[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[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[Winter Poems: &#039;Now Winter Nights Enlarge&#039; by Thomas Campion]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;This Winter&#039; by Charles Mariano]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['This Winter' by Charles Mariano: warm fires winter poems hand fingers countless tales wind and rain]]></description>
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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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         <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[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[Love Poems: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;The Charge of the Light Brigade&#039; by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Nefarious War&#039; by Li Po (c. 750)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sestina]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/sestina.htm</link>
         <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[Memorize a Poem]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;To Autumn&#039; by John Keats (1820)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blkeatstoautumn.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['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]]></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>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blhardywar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'' & 'The Man He Killed' by Thomas Hardy (1915)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;To Autumn&#039; by William Blake (1783)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blblakeautumn.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['To Autumn' by William Blake (1783): poetical sketches autumn poems spirits of the air shall dance roves]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Dirge for Two Veterans&#039; by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blwhitmandirge.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Dirge for Two Veterans' by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Dulce et Decorum Est&#039; by Wilfrid Owen (1917)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blwowenwar.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;It Was So Cold&#039; by Whitman McGowan]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blmcgowanwinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['It Was So Cold' by Whitman McGowan]]></description>
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         <dc:date>2009-11-08T12:13:51Z</dc:date>
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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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         <dc:date>2009-11-08T12:13:51Z</dc:date>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare&#039; by Edna St. Vincent Millay]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blmillayeuclid.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare,' Sonnet from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;In the Bleak Midwinter&#039; (1872) by Christina Rossetti]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blrossettichristmas.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['In the Bleak Midwinter' (1872) by Christina Rossetti]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[       Index of Poems - Alphabetical by Poet Name     ]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/blpoemindexbypoetname.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Index by poet's name of the poems published at the About Poetry Web site.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Winter: A Dirge&#039; by Robert Burns (1781)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blburnswinter.htm</link>
         <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[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[Poems of War: from &#039;Remembering That Island&#039; by Thomas McGrath (1972)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blmcgrathwar.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[from 'Remembering That Island' by Thomas McGrath (1972)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Abecedarian Poem]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/abecedarian.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Abecedarian poem defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of poems written in abecedarian form.]]></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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         <description><![CDATA['Mother and Poet' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1862)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Haiku]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/haiku.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Haiku defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;The Autumn&#039; by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blebbrowningautumn.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Autumn' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1833): elizabeth barrett browning autumn poems lofty hill woods and waters summer flowers]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Villanelle]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/g/villanelle.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The villanelle defined, in our glossary of poetic forms.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Second Coming&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blyeatssecondcoming.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['The Second Coming' by William Butler Yeats (1920)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Worst Poem of All Time]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/19thcpoets/a/mcgonagall.htm</link>
         <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[&#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[Autumn Poems: Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blshakespearesonnet73.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Sonnet 73 - 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' by William Shakespeare (1609)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Over the River and Through the Wood&#039; by Lydia Maria Child]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blchildthanksgiving.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Over the River and Through the Wood' by Lydia Maria Child (1844)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Christmas Trees&#039; by Robert Frost (1920)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blfrostchristmas.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Christmas Trees' by Robert Frost (1920): christmas poems country fashion christmas trees balsams circular letter]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Frost Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/a/frostpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by Robert Frost, in chronological order.]]></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[&#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[Winter Poems: &#039;Winter Conversation&#039; by Joyce Wakefield]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blwakefieldwinter.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Winter Conversation' by Joyce Wakefield]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Glossary of Poetic Forms]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poeticforms/a/formsglossary.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Traditional poetic forms briefly defined.]]></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[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn Song&#039; by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1883)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;To My Mother&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blwordsworthsolitaryreaper.htm</link>
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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[Christmas Poems: &#039;Christmas Bells&#039; (1864) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Nothing Gold Can Stay&#039; by Robert Frost (1923)]]></title>
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         <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[Carpe Diem Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/carpediempoems.htm</link>
         <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[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[July 4th Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/july4thpoems.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[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 &amp; Stephen Vincent Ben&#233;t.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;North Wind&#039; by Debbie Ouellet]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn Fires&#039; by Robert Louis Stevenson (1913)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Reaching for White&#039; by Lisa Shields]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;Spring&#039; (song from Love&#039;s Labors Lost) by William Shakespeare (1598)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[After the Attack: Poems Worth Remembering]]></title>
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         <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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         <title><![CDATA[Put Together a Manuscript]]></title>
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         <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[Fibonacci Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;A Poem Against War&#039;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Karen Karpowich's contribution to the About Poetry anthology of peace poems]]></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[&#039;Among School Children&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Song of Myself&#039; by Walt Whitman]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Blake]]></title>
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         <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[A Guide to Beowulf]]></title>
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         <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[Limerick]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn&#039; by Mary Hamrick]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Spring and Fall&#039; by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get Started Submitting]]></title>
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         <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 After the Attack: &#039;If Only&#039;]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Walt Whitman]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <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[&#039;When You Are Old&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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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[Poems for Peace: &#039;A Poem for Peace in Two Voices&#039;]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[       InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2008 Archive     ]]></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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         <title><![CDATA[Collections of Love Poems]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryaroundtheworld/tp/lovepoetry.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poets/l/bllaureates.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A Net-annotated list of all the poets who have served the U.S. Library of Congress as Consultant (the old title) or Poet Laureate Consultant (the new title).]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[       InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2006 Archive     ]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[About Poetry Forum Entries, November 2009 InterBoard Poetry Competition]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween Poems: &#039;Halloween&#039; by Robert Burns]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;Autumn Movement&#039; by Carl Sandburg (1918)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Halloween Poems: &#039;Ulalume&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Blake Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our library of poem texts &#150; selected poems by William Blake, in chronological order.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Road Not Taken&#039; by Robert Frost]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[On Poems in Competition]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;The Pumpkin&#039; by John Greenleaf Whittier]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Mothers: &#039;Mother to Son&#039; by Langston Hughes (1922)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Phillis Wheatley]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Autumn Poems: &#039;November Snow&#039; by Joseph Pacheco]]></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[Independence Day Poems: &#039;A Nation&#039;s Strength&#039; by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A Nation's Strength' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Darkness&#039; by George Gordon, Lord Byron]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Poe Poems]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fall: &#039;The Oven Bird&#039; by Robert Frost (1920)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Election Day]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pablo Neruda]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sylvia Plath]]></title>
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         <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 for Spring: &#039;Lines Written in Early Spring&#039; by William Wordsworth (1798)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[About the About.com Poetry Museletter]]></title>
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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[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[&#039;The Tyger&#039; by William Blake]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Wild Swans at Coole&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Wild Swans at Coole' by William Butler Yeats (1919)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Waka Waka Bang Splat! The World&#039;s First Internet Special-Characters Poem]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poetryplay/l/blwakawaka.htm</link>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Peace: &#039;If Peace Should Die&#039;]]></title>
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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[InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2005 Archive]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/bl2005ibpcentries.htm</link>
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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[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[InterBoard Poetry Competition Winners, 2009 Archive]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems After the Attack, One Year Later: &#039;Upon 9/11&#039;]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A poem written by Matthew Abuelo during the year since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pantoum]]></title>
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         <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[Spring Poems: &#039;Spring, the Sweet Spring&#039; from Summer&#039;s Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/od/poems/l/blnashespring.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Spring, the Sweet Spring' from Summer's Last Will and Testament, by Thomas Nashe (1600)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Thanksgiving&#039; by Kate Seymour Maclean]]></title>
         <link>http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/blmacleanthanksgiving.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA['Thanksgiving' by Kate Seymour Maclean (1880): thanksgiving poems church spire kate seymour autumn hills dewy grass]]></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[Patricia Smith, Journalism &amp; Poetry: Shall we meditate on Truth? - POETRY - 6/23/98]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As the nation's foremost Slam poet, she speaks the voices of those who have not been heard. . . . As a journalist, Patricia Smith is a great poet -- she gets at the truth under the skin, from your About.com guides, Bob Holman & Margery Snyder.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Alone&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Alone' by Edgar Allan Poe (1829): edgar allan poe poems by edgar allan poe lightning in the sky demon in my view stormy life]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Spring: &#039;Spring&#039; by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1918)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Sestina&#039; by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1872)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Sestina' by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1872)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;A Christmas Carol&#039; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1799)]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['A Christmas Carol' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1799)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;Kubla Khan&#039; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1797)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poetry Anthologies (Books)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;The Tay Bridge Disaster&#039; by William Topaz McGonagall]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Tay Bridge Disaster' by William Topaz McGonagall (1879)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;An Acrostic&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;Father&#039; by Edgar A. Guest (1909)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Keats Poems]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Wordsworth Poems]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Fathers: &#039;A Prayer for My Daughter&#039; by William Butler Yeats]]></title>
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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[InterBoard Poetry Competition Entries from the About Poetry Forum, 2004 Archive]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems After the Attack, One Year Later: &#039;Silence (over Manhattan)&#039;]]></title>
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