Poetry Pieces

On-Line Resources

The Literature Network: http://www.online-literature.com/author_index.php

The Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/

Book Collections

101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Cost: $1.50
ISBN-10: 0486401588
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Great-American-Poems-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486401588/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282102083&sr=8-1

Great Short Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Cost: $1.50
ISBN-10: 0486411052
Link: http://www.amazon.com/GreatShortPoemsThriftEditions/dp/0486411052/ref=pd_sim_b_4

100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Cost: $1.50
ISBN-10: 0486285537
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Loved-Poems-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486285537/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Great Love Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Cost: $1.50
ISBN-10: 0486272842
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Poems-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486272842/ref=pd_sim_b_6

100 Essential Modern Poems
Cost: $18.21
ISBN-10: 1566636124
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Modern-Poems-Joseph-Parisi/dp/1566636124/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282102892&sr=1-3

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
Cost: $12.24
ISBN-10: 1400030935
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Book-Contemporary-American-Poetry/dp/1400030935/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282103383&sr=1-1

Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
Cost: $19.77
ISBN-10: 0393310906
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-American-Poetry-Norton-Anthology/dp/0393310906/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282103559&sr=1-1

The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
Cost: $12.24
ISBN-10: 0679741151
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Book-Contemporary-World-Poetry/dp/0679741151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282103823&sr=1-1

World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time
Cost: $32.85 (But this includes an “incomparable” listing of 1, 376 pages worth of poetry)
ISBN-10: 0393041301
Link: http://www.amazon.com/World-Poetry-Anthology-Verse-Antiquity/dp/0393041301/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282103823&sr=1-5

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Cost: $20.40
ISBN-10: 0393332381
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Language-New-Century-Contemporary-Poetry/dp/0393332381/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282104262&sr=1-1

A Treasury of Asian Literature: Arabia, India, China, and Japan
(Not everything in this is verse, there are some pieces of prose, but this is a good collection of work for those new to Asian Literature.)
Cost: $15.39
ISBN-10: 0452011485
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Asian-Literature-Arabia-India/dp/0452011485/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282104611&sr=1-10

The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry: From Whitman to Walcott  
Cost: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0231100027                                                                                                             
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Columbia-Book-Civil-War-Poetry/dp/0231100027

Wilfred Owen (War poet) The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Cost: $9.27
ISBN-10: 0811201325
Link: http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Wilfred-Owen-Directions/dp/0811201325

A Few On-Line Collections

Rudyard Kipling's The Barrack-Room Ballads
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~munwin/ballads.html#k34

Rudyard Kipling Collection of Poems
http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/kipling_ind.html

Allen Ginsburg
Collection: http://www.poemhunter.com/allen-ginsberg/poems/page-1/
Howl: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179381

T. S. Eliot Collection
http://www.bartleby.com/people/Eliot-Th.html

Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems
Sonnets: http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/
Poems: http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-poems.htm

Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
http://www.bartleby.com/142/index1.html

John Keats
http://www.bartleby.com/126/index1.html

E. E. Cummings
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/e__e__cummings/poems

Robert Forst
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2361
http://www.online-literature.com/frost/

Emily Dickinson
http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1775

Some (Classic) Poets to Consider...

Edna St. Vincent Millay 

Pablo Neruda

T. S. Eliot

W. B. Yeats

William Ernest Henley

Walt Whitman

William Blake

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

John Keats

Anne Sexton

Cesare Pavese

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Amy Lowell

Anne Waldman

Jonathan Swift

Edmund Spenser

Sir Walter Ralegh

Thomas Hardy

Robert Louis Stevenson

Edgar Allan Poe

Maya Angelou

Jack London

John Milton

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)

Beowulf (Anonymous)

Homer

Diane Wakoski

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sylvia Plath

Oscar Wilde