Electronic Text Archives

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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

LionHeart - Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.
http://lionheart.chadwyck.co.uk/

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

Classic Poetry Treasure Chest - Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.
http://jollyroger.com/classicalpoetry

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

Poetry Archive - Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
http://www.poetry-archive.com/

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/

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

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/

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

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

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/

Poetry X » Poems - Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.
http://poetry.poetryx.com

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

Womenpoets - Biographies and selected works of thirty women poets from various countries.
http://www.geocities.com/womenpoets/

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/

The Poem Tree - Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
http://www.poemtree.com/

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

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/

Contemporary American Poetry Archive - Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.
http://capa.conncoll.edu/

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

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 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/

EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry - Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/

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/

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

The Compendium - Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/

Anthology of Poetry - Includes about 650 poems by 117 great poets.
http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm

Poems, Short Stories, Quotes - A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.
http://www.metalvortex.com/poems/index.htm

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/

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

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

Poetry - Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.
http://www.raingod.com/angus/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