Recommended Online Poetry Collections

Poetry resources and poetry in the public domain

Infoplease Poetry Collections | Poetry Sites | Poetry in the Public Domain

• William Blake: Poems
• Anne Bradstreet: Poems and Meditations
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese
• Robert Burns: Poems and Songs
• Samuel Coleridge: Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
• Stephen Crane: War Is Kind
• Emily Dickinson: Poems
• John Donne: Songs and Sonnets
• T. S. Eliot: Poems
• T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
• Robert Frost: A Boy's Will
• Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat
• John Keats: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems
• John Keats: Poems 1817
• Henry W. Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha
• Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems
• John Milton: Paradise Lost
• William Shakespeare: Sonnets
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works
• Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

Infoplease Poetry Collections | Poetry Sites | Poetry in the Public Domain

• Academy of American Poets Best Site!!
  Originators of National Poetry Month
• Poetry 180 Best Site!!
  From former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins, a poem for each school day
• Favorite Poem Project
  Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's project encouraging people to write about and read aloud their favorite poems
• Poetry Daily
  A new poem, poet, and book featured each day
• The Internet Poetry Archive
  Poems from and biographical information about living poets
• Modern American Poetry
  Criticism, biographical information, and selected poems from modern American poets
• Passions in Poetry
  Classical and modern poems organized by theme
• The American Verse Project
  A University of Michigan project to put online American poetry published before 1920

Infoplease Poetry Collections | Poetry Sites | Poetry in the Public Domain

• Bartleby.com Best Site!!
  Anthologies and volumes from major poets
• Representative Poetry Online
  From the University of Toronto; search for poets, poems, poetry terms, and more
• Internet Classics Archive
  Sponsored by MIT, offers classic works, mostly Greco-Roman, with some Chinese and Persians, in English
• Luminarium.com
  Offers Medieval, Renaissance, early 17th Century English poets, bios, and other reference material
• Digital Dante
  Sponsored by Columbia University, presents The Divine Comedy and other works by medieval poet Dante Alighieri
• Shakespeare Online
  William Shakespeare’s plays and poems, accompanied by related material
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  Operated by The Tech, an MIT student newspaper
• Byronmania
  Features material on Lord Byron
• 19th Century Poets
  From Barrett Browning to Wordsworth