Poetry.com -An extensive range of cross-referenced definitions, informative sidelights, hyperlinked keywords, phonetic pronunciation guides and examples. Poetry, poem, verse, poet, literature, rhetoric, prosody, rhyme, meter, metrics, figure of speech, trope, simile, metaphor, imagery, stanza, scansion.

Sonnet Central -An archive of English sonnets by authors such as Alcott, Alexander, Ashe, Blake, Bryant, Donne, Hardy, Shakespeare, and Wilde, commentary, pictures, audio, and relevant web links.

Aha! Poetry -Post your poems, read online books about poetry, learn about forms of poetry such as cinquain, haiku, and tanka, find a publisher, get critiques of your works in progress, and enter contests.

Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950's -In-depth information about the poets and poetry of the 1950's in America. Includes the Beat Generation, San Fransisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets, including Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, DiPrima, Rexroth, Antoninus, Duncan, Kaufman, Creeley, Williams, O'Hara, Ashbery and others.

British Poetry 1780-1910 -Online texts of British poetry. Includes Lewis Carroll, Coleridge, Cristall, Tennyson, Dante, Wilde, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and more.

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts -Online collection of early Irish poems to circa 1200.

The American Verse Project -Search through this electronic archive of American poetry before 1920. Includes Alcott, Bates, Benet, Bryant, Dickenson, Emerson, Gould, Harper, Longfellow, Masters, Millay, Poe, Sandburg, Whitman, Whittier, and others.

Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry -This site includes six volumes of poetry online. Includes Shakespeare, Ford, Milton, Scott, Kipling, Wordsworth, Bryant, Tennyson, Bacon, Keats, Byron, Joyce, and many more.

The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary -Doubles as a rhyming dictionary and thesaurus. Find rhymes, near rhymes, homophones synonyms, and semantic siblings of any English word. Ideal for writing poetry and lyrics.