Electronic Text Archives

» 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 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

» American Verse Project
   Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.

   
   http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/

» Anthology of Poetry
   Includes about 650 poems by 117 great poets.

   
   http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm

» 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

» 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

» 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

» 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/

» Canadian Poetry Archive
   Selected poems from over 100 early Canadian poets in both English and French.

   
   http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canvers/index-e.html

» 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

» Classic Poetry Treasure Chest
   Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.

   
   http://jollyroger.com/classicalpoetry

» Contemporary American Poetry Archive
   Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.

   
   http://capa.conncoll.edu/

» 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

» 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/

» EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry
   Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.

   
   http://www.everypoet.com/archive/

» Internet Poetry Archive
   Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.

   
   http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/

» LionHeart
   Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.

   
   http://lionheart.chadwyck.co.uk/

» Our Favorite Poems
   Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.

   
   http://www.kyphilom.com/www/poems.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/

» 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

» Poems, Short Stories, Quotes
   A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.

   
   http://www.metalvortex.com/poems/index.htm

» 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/

» 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

» 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/

» Poetry Archive
   Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.

   
   http://www.poetry-archive.com/

» 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 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/

» Poetry X » Poems
   Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.

   
   http://poetry.poetryx.com

» Poetry.com.au
   Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources.

   
   http://www.poetry.com.au/

» Random Poems
   Extensive personal selection of public domain poems by poets including Ben Jonson, John Keats and John Milton.

   
   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2464/randindx.html

» 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.

   
   http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

» 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

» The Compendium
   Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.

   
   http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/

» The Poem Tree
   Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.

   
   http://www.poemtree.com/

» The Poetry Place
   Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork.

   
   http://www.theofficenet.com/~jack/arts/

» 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 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/

» Womenpoets
   Biographies and selected works of thirty women poets from various countries.

   
   http://www.geocities.com/womenpoets/

» 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

» 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/