Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.

Poetry by famous British and American poets including Wendy Cope, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Oscar Wilde.

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

Contains about 650 poems by 117 great poets.

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".

Small personal collection of favourite poetry and selected other texts.

An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.

Collection of primarily 20th-century works with photos, biographical notes and links.

A hypertext archive of scholarly editions from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.

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

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.

An archive of classic poetry including Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Coleridge. Includes brief biographies and personal commentary.

Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.

Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.

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

Personal collection of favorite poetry and passages from poets such as Robert Frost, William Shakespeare and Edward Lear; includes related links.

Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.

Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne.

Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.

Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.

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

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

Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.

Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.

Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.

Personal and eclectic online collection of poems by many well-known authors and songwriters.

Small collection of poems written about poems or about writing poetry.

A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.

Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links.

Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.

A collection of poetry by Djuna Barnes, Robert Steiner, Peter Schjeldahl, Patrick Carrothers, James Inskeep and others.

A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year.

Archive of American Civil War poetry from both sides of the conflict. Also includes an archive of music from the era.

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

An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.

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.

Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.

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

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

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.

Archive of poetry and lyrics by a variety of poets and songwriters including Leonard Cohen, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan.

A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems".

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

Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.

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

Searchable database of poems from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Good for English translations of non-English poems.

Small archive of poems and lines from both established and emerging authors.

Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.

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

Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.