Poems and related topics found on the net.

• Anthologies:
  • Poets' Corner. Nice site and a good place to start looking for most poems old enough to be in the public domain. Contains Lives of the Poets (only a paragraph each), and a subject index.
  • The Poetry Poll
  • The Poetry Archives. A large (3348 poems by 92 poets) searchable (by author, title, or first line) archive.
  • The American Verse Project. Can be searched for words or phrases in a poem.
  • Index of poets in representative poetry on-line at University of Toronto. Quite a large collection.
  • Project Bartleby archive.
  • Contemporary poems.
  • Index of linked poems maintained by Seamus Cooney. An interesting and fun collection. (This is where I first learned of Tom Clark, Edward Field, A. D. Hope, and Philip Larkin.)
  • Women poets: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Emily Dickinson.
  • British Poetry 1780-1910: a Hypertext Archive of Scholarly Editions.
  • The Modern English Collection at the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
  • Online Poetry Resources.
  • Keith's Poetry Archive.
• Matthew Arnold:
  • Selected poetry and prose.
  • Dover Beach.
• Hillaire Belloc:
  • Biographical information from Encyclopędia Britannica Online.
  • Selected verses from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts and Other Selected Verses at the Poets' Corner.
• Bible:
  • King James Version and Revised Standard Version at Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia. Also has The Koran and The Book of Mormon online.
  • The Bible Gateway. A search engine for the Bible in seveal languages and versions.
  • Another search engine with a choice of about 20 differenct translations.
  • The Interactive Bible. Includes a great list false doctrines (Roman Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Calvinism, and of course Evolution) and a picture of the living Antichrist, who I am happy to say looks a bit like me.
  • The Bible in Pig Latin.
• Ambrose Bierce
  • The Devil's Dictionary. It can also be found here.
  • The story of Ambrose Bierce told in the language of his "Devil's Dictionary".
  • Stories: The Damned Thing, An Inhabitant of carcosa, Moxon's Master, My Favorite Murder, and An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge.
• Elizibeth Bishop
  • Elizabeth Bishop page at Vassar College from which Bishop graduated in 1934. Vassar also has The Elizabeth Bishop Papers.
  • Elizabeth Bishop at The Academy of American Poets. Included ate
    • The Armadillo,
    • At the Fishhouses,
    • Filling Station,
    • The Fish,
    • In the Waiting Room,
    • Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore,
    • The Man-Moth,
    • The Moose,
    • One Art
    • Visits to St. Elizabeths
  • Some criticism of her poems.
  • The Lady and Gentleman of Shalott by Bishop.
• William Blake:
  • William Blake Archive includes The Complete Poetry and Prose.
  • The Tyger also here, here, and here. Commentary on the poem here and here.
  • List of Blake related sites.
  • The complete prose and poetry, and illustrated version of Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
• Gwendolyn Brooks:
  • Gwendolyn Brooks page which has some poems including We Real Cool.
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
  • The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
• Robert Browning:
  • The Browning Society.
  • Robert Browning on the Victorian Web.
  • Robert Browning at Pegasos.
  • Selected Poetry of Robert Browning
  • My Last Duchess.
• John Bunyan:
  • Some biographical information.
  • The life of John Bunyan and the impact of his allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.
  • The Pilgrim's Progress also here.
• Robert Burns:
  • Burns Country which includes a rather good selection of his poetry and also a collection of Burns related links.
  • The World Of Robert Burns.
  • Burns links at The Tam O'Shanter Exhibition.
  • Slected poems including A Red, Red Rose.
• Lord Byron:
  • The Lord Byron WebRing.
  • Lord Byron selected poems with some commentary.
  • Selected Poems.
  • Don Juan, also here, here (with commentary), and here (also with commentary).
  • Notes on Don Juan.
  • She Walks In Beauty.
  • The life of Lord Byron.
  • Lord Byron at Neurotic Poets.
• Lewis Carrol:
  • Lewis Carroll Home Page.
  • Lewis Carroll: Biography and Charles Dodgson as Photographer.
  • Jabberwocky, with commentary at Glorious Nonsense.
  • The hunting of the snark. Nice illustrations.
  • Another illustrated Hunting of the snark.
  • The Walrus And The Carpenter.
• G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton:
  • A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan, Elegy in a Country Churchyard.
  • The American Chesterton Society which has a page of selected poetry and a list of links.
  • G. K. Chesterton Mega-Links Page.
  • G.K. Chesterton Web Page which has photos and G. K. Chesterton's Works on the Web which is an impressive collection.
  • The G. K. Chesterton Page which has some of his works.
• Tom Clark:
  • Artificial Light.
  • Two Poems.
  • Poems, Prayers, Quotes, Sayings and Stories. Includes some of Clark's poems.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  • Selected poetry and prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
  • The rime of the Ancient Mariner: In seven parts.
  • S. T. Coleridge Poems, prose, biographical, critical and historical information.
  • Kubla Khan.
  • S. T. Coleridge & The Internet List of Coleridge related links.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge more Coleridge links.
• E. E. Cummings:
  • Unofficial E. E. Cummings starting point.
  • Selected Poems.
  • my sweet old etcetera, she being Brand, and somewhere.
  • e.e. cummings on Krazy Kat See also: and "Some Say it With A Brick": George Herriman's Krazy Kat and The Coconino County Homepage for more on Krazy Kat.
  • An e. e. cummings page with a list of other cummings sites.
  • Selected poems.
• Emily Dickinson:
  • The Emily Dickinson International Society.
  • The Dickinson Homestead.
  • The Virtual Emily. Contains information on Dickinson, her family, and the poems.
  • The complete poems at Project Bartleby.
  • Emily Dickinson at Neurotic Poets.
• John Donne:
  • John Donne (1572-1631) includes The Life of John Donne and is part of Enlish Literature: Early 17th Century.
  • The Works of John Donne including Satires, Songs and Sonnets, Elegies, Epigrams and Holy Sonnets.
  • Selected poetry including Go and catch a falling star.
  • The John Donne Society Home Page.
  • . Introduction to John Donne with a page of links.
• T. S. Eliot:
  • The T. S. Eliot Page .
  • T. S. Eliot poetry and prose at Bartleby Archive.
  • The Wasteland
  • A Critical study of the Wasteland.
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
  • T.S. Eliot Campfire Chat.
• Edward Field:
  • Curse of the Cat Woman.
  • Three Frankenstein Poems.
  • Unwanted.
• Flanders and Swann
  • Flanders and Swann Online includes short biographies and words to the songs and monologues.
  • The Hippopotamus, First and Second Law, Twenty Tons of TNT, The War of 1418, and Slow Train.
• Robert Frost:
  • Four volumes of his poetry at Bartleby.com.
  • The Robert Frost Web Page with one, two, three, four pages which between them have most of the better known poems.
  • Selected interviews with Frost.
  • Bibliography of Robert Frost.
  • Mending Wall with commentary by Patrick Goold.
• Allen Ginsberg:
  • Allen Ginsberg page at Literary Kicks.
  • The Poetry of Allen Ginsberg. Along with some of Ginsberg's poetry (including Howl, A supermarket in California, America and Sunflower Sutra) this site contains links to other Ginsberg related sites and has several tributes and an eulogy for Ginsberg.
  • Poems and other writings. The most complete collection I have seen on the net. Includes link to Part I of Kaddish.
  • Allen Ginsberg: Shadow changes into bone. Lots of information and links.
  • Thru the Vortex: Allen Ginsberg and his Poetry.
• Robert Herrick:
  • Selected poetry of Robert Herrick
  • To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time .
• A. D. Hope:
  • Five Poems including The Return of Persephone, The Pleasure of Princes, Parabola, Meditation on a Bone, and Tiger.
  • The Elegy and Imperial Adam.
  • The Kings, Advice to Young Ladies, The Elegy, and Prometheus Unbound.
  • The Bed.
  • The Gateway.
• A. E. Housman:
  • Selected poems including Stars, I have seen them fall...
  • Selected poetry.
  • A Shropshire Lad which can also be found here, here, and here the latter having eight illustrations by William Hyde.
  • Demolition Derby celebration of Housman as a cynic.
  • A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad information about the poems and Housman along with some of the poems. Map and pictures of Shropshire.
• Samuel Johnson:
  • Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson.
  • The Johnson Society of London.
  • Samuel Johnson Contains links to many of Johnson's works including The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), The Vanity of Human Wishes (1755), , Preface to the Dictionary.
  • The Will of Samuel Johnson.
  • Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language. A search engine for the good Doctor's lexicon.
• James Joyce:
  • Work in Progress and Jorn Barger's Joyce page have information and links about Joyce.
  • Chamber Music a collection of poems by Joyce.
  • Dubliners.
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
  • Ulysses.
  • Finnegans Web A Webified version of Finnegans Wake. Also has Ulysses.
• Donald Justice:
  • Donald Justice at The Academy of American Poets.
  • The Donald Justice Page with a selection of twelve of his poems.
  • An interview with Justice.
  • First Death.
  • The Assassination.
• John Keats:
  • Slected poems at Sonnet Central.
  • All about John k Keats. Has less than the name would lead one to expect.
  • The Poems of John Keats.
  • Author Feature: John Keats. Some biographical information. More can be found at British Literature: John Keats at British Literature.
• Rudyard Kipling:
  • A complete collection of poems.
  • Biography.
• Walter de la Mare (also wrote as Walter Ramal).
  • A Walter de la Mare page.
  • Selected poems. Contains a little biographical information.
  • The Fairy Poems of Walter de la Mare.
  • Poet's corner: Selected works of Walter de la Mare.
  • Selected poetry of Walter de la Mare.
• Tom Lehrer:
  • Tom Lehrer songs. Includes some of the mathematics songs from the Monthly not on the albums.
  • Songs from the albums. Basically a mirror of the Tom Lehrer section of Jeff Morris' Demented Lyrics Collection.
  • Tom Lehrer:The Political Musician That Wasn't and Tom Lehrer the man, his myth and his music? for information about Leherer.
  • Some Links about Tom Lehrer.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Biography.
  • Collected Poetry Online.
  • Biographical Information and collections of poems letters etc.
  • The Song of Hiawatha which can also be found here.
• Don Marquis:
  • Don Marquis,The creator of Archy & Mehitabel. Also has information about Freddy the Rat, Warty Bliggens the Toad, The Old Soak and others. Nice site.
  • The Archy and Mehitabel page. Contains sevarl of the stories and poems including the coming of archy, the song of mehitabel, warty bliggens, the toad, and the cockroach who had been to hell.
  • the lives and times of archy and mehitabel.
  • Free Literature Available which has the robin and the worm, archy climbs everest, and archy on everest
  • An Ode to Hollywood.
• Andrew Marvell:
  • Selected poetry of Andrew Marvell
  • To His Coy Mistress.
• Herman Melville:
  • The Life and Works of Herman Melville. Mostly concerned with the prose works. Has list of Melville related links.
  • About Herman Melville. Has a collection of about a dozen of his Civil War related poems.
  • Poems Corner: Selected works of Herman Melville.
• Michelangelo:
  • Michelangelo biography.
  • Three poems
  • Two poems.
  • To sleep, even more be made of stone: how these.
• John Milton:
  • John Milton (1608-1674) including life, works, quotes, essays on Milton, and more.
  • Milton Reading Room.
  • Biography of John Milton.
  • John Milton: Poet, Priest and Prophet A Study of Divine Vocation in Milton's Poetry and Prose. An online book about Milton.
  • Selected Poetry of John Milton.
  • Paradise Lost and again here.
• Ogden Nash:
  • A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971).
  • A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971). (Different from the one above.)
  • Candy is Dandy but Liquor is Quicker: Ogden Nash Online.
  • The Ogden Nash Collection at the University of Texas, Austin.
  • The Tale of Custard the Dragon, also here, here, and here. The latter is part of a collection of Dragon poems.
  • Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight.
  • The Verse of Ogden Nash. Collection of eight short animal poems.
  • Small collection of poems.
  • A collection of about thirty poems.
• Randy Newman:
  • Randy Newman pages and links can be found here, here, and here.
  • Short People and Baltimore.
• Wilfred Owen:
  • Poems by Wilfred Owen with Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.
• Edgar Allan Poe:
  • Unofficial homepage dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe.
  • A list of Poe related sites.
  • The Raven.
  • Edgar Allan Poe at Neurotic Poets.
• Alexander Pope:
  • Alexander Pope Biographical information and selected poems.
  • Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Links to biographical information and selected works.
  • The Rape of the Lock, Canto I, Canto II, Canto III, Canto IV, Canto V.
  • The Rape of the Lock Home Page.
• Henry Reed:
  • Henry Reed (1914-1986) at A librarian on the web.
  • Naming of Parts and again here
  • Chard Whitlow.
  • Judging Distances.
  • Unarmed Combat.
• Robert Service:
  • The original home page of Robert W. Service. Includes a search engine of the complete poems, a short biography, and a chronology.
  • Robert W. Service: The bard of Canada.
  • Robert William Service 1874-1958. Some biographical information.
  • Complete books: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, Ballads of a Cheechako, and Rhymes of a Rolling Stone.
  • The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Cremation of Sam Mcgee, The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, The Ballad of Pious Pete, Ant Hill, and The Sceptic.
  • Shakespeare:
    • Shakespeare resources on the Internet.
    • The Complete Works at MIT and again at James Matthew Farrow's site. The latter has a good search engine.
    • Bartlett's Familiar Shakespearan Quotations.
    • Search Shakespeare's works for key phrases.
    • Sonnets: 1-50 51-100 101-154.
    • The Complete Sonnets.
    • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
    • The Internet Shakespeare Editions.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley:
    • Percy Bysshe Shelley at Neurotic Poets.
  • Shel Silverstein:
    • Shel Silverstein Collected Information with a page of links.
    • The Perfect High - or - The Quest of Gimmesome Roy.
    • The World's Greatest Smoke Off.
    • Hamlet as Told on the Street.
    • Celebrating the adult works of Shel Silverstein which contains Lyrics and Adult Poetry.
  • Wallace Stevens:
    • Selected poems including The Emperor of Ice-Cream.
    • The Poet of Two Worlds Information about Stevens and has a subpages for a few poems and list of Stevens' related links.
    • Hartford Friends of Wallace Stevens Has a list of links.
    • Feigning with the Strange Unlike: A Wallace Stevens Site
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    • Alfred Lord Tennyson -- Biographical Materials on the Victorian Web.
    • Another biography.
    • Very short biography.
    • Selected poems.
    • The Lady of Shalott with reproduction of the painting by John William Waterhouse.
    • Charge of the Light Brigade.
    • Ulysses
    • Crossing the Bar.
  • Dylan Thomas:
    • The "craft and sullen art" of Dylan Thomas which has a brief Biography and a collection of pictures.
    • Dylan Thomas at Poets.org. Includes Do not go gentle into that good night, Fern Hill, The force that through the green fuse drives the flower, Light breaks where no sun shines, and A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London. A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach to Modern Poetry.
    • The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait. Dylan Marlias Thomas at Neurotic Poets.
  • Walt Whitman:
    • Leaves of Grass.
    • Song of Myself.
    • O Captain! My Captain!.
  • Oscar Wilde:
    • Oscar Wilde at Neurotic Poets.
  • William Carlos Williams:
    • Selected poems.
    • The Red Wheelbarrow.
    • William Carlos Williams at Literary Kicks.
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