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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/
Web Sites Electronic Text Archives:
» A Small Anthology of Poems
Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.