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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".
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
A Small Collection of Poetry
Poetry by famous British and American poets including Wendy Cope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Oscar Wilde.
http://www.pmms.cam.ac.uk/~gjm11/poems/
Snap Dragon Poetry Corner
A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems".
http://www.snap-dragon.com/poetry.htm
Anthology of Poetry
Contains about 650 poems by 117 great poets.
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm
David P Brown - Favorite Poetry
Personal collection of favorite poetry and passages from poets such as Robert Frost, William Shakespeare and Edward Lear; includes related links.
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/index-poetry.html
Beautiful Words
Small personal collection of favourite poetry and selected other texts.
http://www.beautifulwords.com
Canadian Poetry Archive
Selected poems from over 100 early Canadian poets in both English and French.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canvers/index-e.html
American Verse Project
Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
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.
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/
Poetry X » Poems
Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.
http://poetry.poetryx.com
British Poetry 1780-1910
A hypertext archive of scholarly editions from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html
Poetry Through the Ages
Collection of well known poems categorized by subject: love, religion, myth and fantasy, nature, children, philosophy, love of country, war. Section for submission of personal poems to be included on site.
http://www.geocities.com/net_skater1
CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse
Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.
http://eserver.org/poetry/
Poetry
Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.
http://www.raingod.com/angus/Poetry/index.html
Internet Poetry Archive
Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
http://metalab.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/
Bibliomania Poetry Archive
An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/frameset.html
Representative Poetry On-line
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.
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/intro.html
Dream Wine
Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A. A. Milne.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lavie/dreamwine
Oldpoets
Archive of classic poetry. Visitors have the option of ranking poems on a star scale and leaving their personal opinions of individual works.
http://oldpoets.com/
The Poem Tree
Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
http://www.poemtree.com/
Womenpoets
Biographies and selected works of thirty women poets from various countries.
http://www.geocities.com/womenpoets
The Wondering Minstrels
Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels
Famous Poets and Their Best Poems
Shelley, Shakespeare, Becquer, Byron, Poe, Wordsworth, Neruda, Frost, Benedetti, and Dickinson, among others. All in English, classified by poet and by country. You can also submit your own poetry.
http://galeon.com/mlz/famouspoets.html
Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive
Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.
http://www.plagiarist.com/poetry/
The Compendium
Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/
Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
Archive of American Civil War poetry from both sides of the conflict. Also includes an archive of music from the era.
http://users.erols.com/kfraser/index.html
A Small Anthology of Poems
Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.
http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/index.html
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.
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
The Scratch Pad
Small archive of poems and lines from both established and emerging authors.
http://www.mercantilestreet.com/archive.htm
Poems on Poems
Small collection of poems written about poems or about writing poetry.
http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/poetry/
Poetry Archive
Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
http://www.poetry-archive.com/
Poems, Short Stories, Quotes
A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.
http://www.metalvortex.com/poems/index.htm
Digital Poets Society
Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.
http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127848/main.htm
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.
http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Poetry.html
Billie Dee's Electronic Poetry Anthology
Collection of primarily 20th-century works with photos, biographical notes and links.
http://www.geocities.com/billiedee2000/anthology.html
Poetry.com.au
Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources.
http://www.poetry.com.au/
Poetry
A collection of poetry by Djuna Barnes, Robert Steiner, Peter Schjeldahl, Patrick Carrothers, James Inskeep and others.
http://www.geocities.com/johbeil/poetry_index.html
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.
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-lit-poetry.html
The Poetry Searcher
Searchable database of poems from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Good for English translations of non-English poems.
http://www.glaced.digitalspace.net
The Poetry Place
Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickenson. Includes pictures and artwork.
http://www.theofficenet.com/~jack/arts/
Poem of the Week
Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.
http://www.potw.org
Classic Poetry Treasure Chest
Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.
http://jollyroger.com/classicalpoetry
Random Poems
Extensive personal selection of public domain poems by poets including Ben Johnson, John Keats and John Milton.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2464/randindx.html
LionHeart
Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.
http://lionheart.chadwyck.co.uk/
Chesil's Favorite Poetry
An archive of classic poetry including Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Coleridge. Includes brief biographies and personal commentary.
http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/
Lothlorien
Personal selection of poems by various well-known poets including Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Keats.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/8325/index.html
Poems
Personal and eclectic online collection of poems by many well-known authors and songwriters.
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/poems/
Poetry from All Over
A very broad, eclectic but easily-navigated selection of poems, with texts from various authors of various nations from various time-periods.
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~ahmad/poetry.html
Our Favorite Poems
Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.
http://www.webcom.com/duane/poems.html
eMule.com: Poetry Archives
Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.
http://www.emule.com/poetry/
Poetic Miscellany
Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links.
http://www.angelfire.com/co3/poeticmiscellany/
EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry
Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.
http://capa.conncoll.edu/
Rhythm and Pain
Archive of poetry and lyrics by a variety of poets and songwriters including Leonard Cohen, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan.
http://members.tripod.com/%7ERaincloud771/poetry.htm
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