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Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.
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Includes about 650 poems by 117 great poets.
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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".
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An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.
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Collection of primarily 20th-century works with photos, biographical notes and links.
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A hypertext archive of scholarly editions: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
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Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.
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Selected poems from over 100 early Canadian poets in both English and French.
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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.
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An archive of classic poetry including Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Coleridge. Includes brief biographies and personal commentary.
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Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.
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Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.
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Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.
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Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne.
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Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.
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A collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.
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Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
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Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.
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Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.
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Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.
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Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.
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Personal and eclectic online collection of poems by many well-known authors and songwriters.
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A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.
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Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links.
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A collection of poetry by Djuna Barnes, Robert Steiner, Peter Schjeldahl, Patrick Carrothers, James Inskeep and others.
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A poem a day provided by the Library of Congress, one for each of the 180 days of a typical American high school year.
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Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
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An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.
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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.
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Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.
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Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources.
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Extensive personal selection of public domain poems by poets including Ben Jonson, John Keats and John Milton.
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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.
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Archive of poetry and lyrics by a variety of poets and songwriters including Leonard Cohen, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan.
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A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems".
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Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.
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Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
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Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork.
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Searchable database of poems from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Good for English translations of non-English poems.
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Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.
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Biographies and selected works of thirty women poets from various countries.
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Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.
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Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.
