Bartleby.com
- American and English works between 1250 and 1920. Offers numerous anthologies including "The Oxford Book of English Verse", the "Yale Book of American Verse" and "Modern American and British Poetry".
American Verse Project - Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.
Bibliomania Poetry Archive - An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.
British Poetry 1780-1910 - A hypertext archive of scholarly editions from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
Categorized Poetry by Pros - Collection of mostly humorous but sometimes sentimental poetry by authors such as Housman, Herrick, Cope, and Chesterton, sorted by categories such as Advice, Animals, Death, and War.
Classic Poetry Treasure Chest - Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.
CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse - Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.
The Compendium - Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.
Contemporary American Poetry Archive - Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.
Digital Poets Society - Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.
Dream Wine - Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne.
eMule.com: Poetry Archives - Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.
Internet Poetry Archive - Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
LionHeart - Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.
Our Favorite Poems - Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.
Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive - Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.
Poem of the Week - Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.
The Poem Tree - Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
Poetic Miscellany - Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links.
Poetry - Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.
Poetry 180 - A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year.
Poetry Archive - Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
Poetry In Translation - An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.
The Poetry Place - Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork.
Poetry X ยป Poems - Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.
Poetry.com.au - Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources.
Representative Poetry Online - Collection of poetry, edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present. Indexed by poet, title and first line.
A Small Anthology of Poems - Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.
Snap Dragon Poetry Corner - A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems".
The Wondering Minstrels - Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.
World Wide School: Literature-Poetry - Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.
The Academy of American Poets - Organization presenting poems, biographies of poets, historical and thematic poetry exhibits, events calendars, discussion forums and contest information.
Aha! Poetry - Consists of a resource for writers and readers of poetry, emphasizing Asian and orientalizing forms such as cinquain, ghazal, haiku, renga, sijo and tanka.
DayPoems - A random walk through eight centuries of English-language verse, updated daily. Visitors can add their poems by email, and webmasters can link to individual poems. Indexed by poet and title. Illustrated.
EnviroArts - Emphasizes the literary and visual arts in relation to nature, with poetry and essays by contemporary authors (culled mostly from the pages of Orion and Orion Afield magazines--which co-sponsor this site) and information on historic naturalism and naturalist literature.
Erin's Poetry Palace - A personal website devoted to poetry, these pages include several sections devoted to specific poets, a large selection of texts of favorite poems, essays on the reading, study and discussion of poems, and a small but discriminating selection of links to poetry-related websites on the Internet.
Fooling with Words - Website for the PBS television special hosted by Bill Moyers includes performances and interviews with some of America's most accomplished poets.
Forgotten Ground Regained - Webzine and poetry resource offering original poems, essays, translations and links to alliterative poems, original medieval epics and verse romances.
Glossary of Poetic Terms - "A unique guide for the study of poetry, with an extensive range of definitions, cross-references between related terms, informative sidelights, hyperlinked keywords, phonetic pronunciation guides and numerous examples."
Inspired Poems - A bilingual English and German anthology of poems inspired by other poems and poets.
Modern Poets - University of Vermont - An introduction to the reading of poetry, with short introductions to several well known modern poets and audio files with discussions or readings of their works.
Passions in Poetry - Archive of contemporary and user-submitted poetry with categories dedicated to love, sadness, friendship and life.
Poems for a Long Winter's Night - A selection of poems about winter, snow, and ice from Charles Baudelaire, Yves Bonnefoy, John Hollander, Victor Hugo, Gail Mazur, Robert Pack, and Paul Verlaine.
Poetry at BellaOnline - Resource offers archived features, categorized links and recommended reading.