Poetry Books Online:
Sites With Full Texts of Classic & Contemporary Works
 
MULTIPLE AUTHOR SITES
American Verse Project (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative: books before about 1930)
Bartleby: Great Books Online (check out the verse menu; also includes reference works)
The Bible--King James Version
British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832 (a wealth of texts)
Contemporary American Poetry Archive (full texts of recent out-of-print volumes: lots of treasures here)
The Literature Network--many full text books, & more
The Online-Books Page (huge repository; look under Subject heading for poetry in various languages)
Project Gutenberg (searchable texts of classic books, poetry & prose)
In the Heydays of His Eyes--An Anthology about Being Young and Growing Up
 
SINGLE AUTHOR SITES
(highly selective: many more available from Bartleby, Project Gutenberg, etc.)
The Bible--King James Version
Wendy Battin (In The Solar Wind)
William Blake (complete poetry & prose; graphical hypertext of Songs of Innocence & Experience; audio; more)
Chaucer (Canterbury Tales)
Dante (Divine Comedy, Henry F. Cary translation, 1914)
Denise Duhamel (The Woman With Two Vaginas)
Denise Duhamel (Smile!)
T. S. Eliot (his early works, including "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land")
Ralph Waldo Emerson (early poems)
Mary Fell (The Persistence of Memory)
Robert Frost (his first three books)
Thomas Hardy (Wessex Poems)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A. E. Housman (A Shropshire Lad)
James Weldon Johnson
John Keats (complete works)
Philip Levine (Ashes)
Philip Levine (Sweet Will)
Philip Levine (A Walk With Tom Jefferson)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (complete poems)
Amy Lowell (A Dome of Many-Colored Glass)
William Matthews (Rising & Falling)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (first book)
John Milton (complete poetry plus)
Wilfred Owen (Poems)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (Collected Poems 1921)
Carl Sandburg (first three books)
Shakespeare (complete plays plus. . .)
Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons)
Sara Teasdale (Rivers to the Sea; see other books at same site)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)
Vergil (The Aeneid, John Dryden's translation)
Walt Whitman (complete poetry & prose)
William Carlos Williams (Sour Grapes)
William Wordsworth (complete poems plus. . .)
Elinor Wylie (Nets to Catch the Wind)
William Butler Yeats (three books)
 
Poetry Librarian:  David Graham
grahamd@ripon.edu