A significant part of his modest income appears to have come from writing occasional poetry for weddings and burials.

The lyric and especially the occasional poetry of Jonson has a peculiar merit.

Topical art, like occasional poetry, is hard to pull off.

Panegyrical and occasional poetry after Statius was strongly influenced by his work.

As a term of literary criticism, "occasional poetry" describes the work's purpose and the poet's relation to subject matter.

While in school he wrote occasional poetry (he started writing at the age of 14).

I've not expended all of my energy in topical poems, or occasional poetry.

Ovid also mentions some occasional poetry which does not survive.

Capern occupied his leisure in writing occasional poetry, which struck the popular fancy.

He was often called upon to issue occasional poetry, or poems written specifically for an event, including many occasions at Harvard.