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	Poetry 180 - http://www.loc.gov/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.
	Bartleby.com - http://www.bartleby.com/verse/ 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".
	British Poetry 1780-1910 - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/britpo.html A hypertext archive of scholarly editions from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
	Bibliomania Poetry Archive - http://www.bibliomania.com/0/2/frameset.html An archive of public domain poetry texts including the works of Blake, Rupert Brooke and Oscar Wilde. Requires JavaScript.
	eMule.com: Poetry Archives - http://www.emule.com/poetry/ Educational resource dedicated to researching poetry. Includes an online archive of poetry by numerous recognized poets.

	CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse - http://eserver.org/poetry/ Searchable archive of online texts from a wide range of recognized poets, both historical and contemporary.
	Internet Poetry Archive - http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry/ Collection of poems by six contemporary poets: Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Yusef Komunyakaa.
	American Verse Project - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/ Organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts. Includes a bibliography and a mission statement.
	Representative Poetry Online - http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm 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.
	Canadian Poetry Archive - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/canvers/index-e.html Selected poems from over 100 early Canadian poets in both English and French.

	The Wondering Minstrels - http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/ Archive of the mailing list offering works by numerous poets. Includes personal commentary, critical analysis and biographical information.
	Poetry Archive - http://www.poetry-archive.com/ Directory-structured database of famous poetry, both written in English and translated.
	Contemporary American Poetry Archive - http://capa.conncoll.edu/ Archive of out-of-print collections of contemporary American poetry, indexed alphabetically by poet name.
	A Small Anthology of Poems - http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/index.html Wide variety of poems that are annotated and/or introduced with commentary and author biographical information.
	Poetry X » Poems - http://poetry.poetryx.com Large poetry archive featuring classic and contemporary poems along with commentary and analysis.

	EveryPoet.com - Archive of World Poetry - http://www.everypoet.com/archive/ Classic poetry from around the world. Mostly British and American.
	http://www.raingod.com/angus/Poetry/index.html - http://www.raingod.com/angus/Poetry/index.html Collection of assorted poems indexed by author, title, first line and keywords.
	Poem of the Week - http://www.potw.org Archive of past offerings indexed by poet, first line, title and occasion. Includes submission guidelines and related links.
	The Poem Tree - http://www.poemtree.com/ Traditional and contemporary metered poetry, with critical essays and links.
	Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive - http://www.plagiarist.com/poetry/ Personal collection of favourite works by poets including Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.

	Anthology of Poetry - http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm Includes about 650 poems by 117 great poets.
	Poetry In Translation - http://www.tonykline.co.uk/ An electronic archive of browsable and downloadable English translations of major European and Chinese Classical poets. Also offers original works by A.S. Kline.
	The Poetry Searcher - http://www.glaced.digitalspace.net Searchable database of poems from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Good for English translations of non-English poems.
	Random Poems - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2464/randindx.html Extensive personal selection of public domain poems by poets including Ben Jonson, John Keats and John Milton.
	http://www.geocities.com/johbeil/poetry_index.html - http://www.geocities.com/johbeil/poetry_index.html A collection of poetry by Djuna Barnes, Robert Steiner, Peter Schjeldahl, Patrick Carrothers, James Inskeep and others.

	Poetry.com.au - http://www.poetry.com.au/ Archive of classic poetry, including original poetic works by independent writers. Includes links to related resources.
	LionHeart - http://lionheart.chadwyck.co.uk/ Searchable collection of love poems spanning four centuries of literature. Also indexed by poet name.
	The Compendium - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/ Personal collection of classic and contemporary poems, indexed by both author and title.
	Classic Poetry Treasure Chest - http://jollyroger.com/classicalpoetry Search thousands of poems by title, first line, or poet. Full texts, extracts, and forums.
	World Wide School: Literature-Poetry - http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-lit-poetry.html Collection of rare and popular works including "Ballad of Reading Gaol", by Oscar Wilde and "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll.

	Poems, Short Stories, Quotes - http://www.metalvortex.com/poems/index.htm A small collection of poems, short stories, and quotes.
	Billie Dee's Electronic Poetry Anthology - http://www.geocities.com/billiedee2000/anthology.html Collection of primarily 20th-century works with photos, biographical notes and links.
	Categorized Poetry by Pros - http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Poetry.html 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.
	Snap Dragon Poetry Corner - http://www.snap-dragon.com/poetry.htm A collection of poems (all on one page). Also includes a selection of "Bad Poems".
	Our Favorite Poems - http://www.kyphilom.com/www/poems.html Eclectic personal selection of public domain texts of poems from a wide range of authors.

	Digital Poets Society - http://users.compaqnet.be/cn127848/main.htm Large searchable collection of classic poetry including Blake, Eliot, Shakespeare and Wilde. Includes related links.
	The Poetry Place - http://www.theofficenet.com/~jack/arts/ Personal archive of poems from poets including Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and Emily Dickinson. Includes pictures and artwork.
	Poetry Through the Ages - http://www.geocities.com/net_skater1/ 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.
	Poetic Miscellany - http://www.angelfire.com/co3/poeticmiscellany/ Includes selections by Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson in addition to a personal poetry archive and related links.
	Dream Wine - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lavie/dreamwine/ Ongoing anthology with traditional and translated works from poets such as William Carlos Williams and A.A. Milne.

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

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