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The War Poetry website provides access to war poems from the First World War to the latest conflict in Iraq, as well as bibliographical information on poets of the First World War. The site is owned by Saxon Books, and is partially commercial, advertising anthologies of First World War poetry from the publisher

The first Chinese and English bilingual poetry magazine, Poetry Sky, has been available online since 2005. Founded by US-based poet Yidan Han, the website presents modern poetry in both English and Chinese, features interviews with poets, and includes sections for both poets and critics. From the main page, users can navigate to Poetry Quarterly, an online magazine, which features Chinese and English-language poetry in translation from a wide range of writers. Huiyin Lin and Qijiao Cai are among the Chinese poets whose work is featured on the site, while contemporary American poets featured here include Robert Creeley and Charles Wright. English-language poets whose work appears in Chinese translation include Sylvia Plath; Emily Dickinson; and Robert Frost.

The Poetry Library is the website of a physical library based in the South Bank Centre, London. The library was founded in 1953 and holds the largest collection of modern poetry in Britain. Its collection includes all modern poetry published in the United Kingdom from 1912 and a wide selection of international materials in English dating from the 20th century to the present day. The Poetry Library website provides a catalogue and an online enquiry service as well as: details of current and past exhibitions; news of forthcoming events (poetry readings, appreciation classes, workshops); related links; lists of poetry publishers and poetry magazines; and advice for poetry reading groups.

Poetry of the First World War is a website created by enthusiast B.J. Omanson, devoted to all poets active during that conflict, across all nationalities. The site lists poets and gives brief biographical details for most, as well as information on their poetry. T

The BBC Poetry Out Loud Web page, part of the BBC Arts website, provides a small and varied collection of recordings of poets reading their own works.

The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research project dedicated to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The Archive, hosted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, strives to preserve and to make accessible a comprehensive corpus of high-quality, electronic primary sources and secondary materials. By using open, interoperable standards and formats widely used in the digital humanities, the Archive offers a structured platform for scholarly communication and collaboration and is developing as a living forum with the discussions, annotations, and contributions shared by the scholarly community. The Thomas Gray Archive is a freely accessible, educational resource solely intended for teaching, research, and study.

Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s.

The University of North Carolina Press joins the UNC Office of Information Technology in publishing the Internet Poetry Archive. The archive makes available over a worldwide computer network selected poems from a number of contemporary poets. The goal of the project is to make poetry accessible to new audiences (at little or no cost) and to give teachers and students of poetry new ways of presenting and studying these poets and their texts.

The War Poets Association website belongs to the UK-registered charity of the same name. The aim of the Association is to promote interest in poets whose subject is the experience of war, and also in the historical context of their lives and works.

Greg Lindahl provides this online database dedicated to sixteenth-century ballads meant to be sung. As well as the plain text database, it features an introductory article on 'The Music of the sixteenth-century Broadside Ballad' and there are also partial transcriptions from some prominent hardcopy collections of broadside ballads including: 'Ballads and Broadsides Chiefly of the Elizabethan Period and Printed in Black Letter Most of Which were Formerly in the Heber Collection and are now in the Library at Britwell Court Buckinghamshire

an archive of English sonnets, commentary, and relevant web links and a forum for poets to share and discuss their own work. Sonnets are grouped by period below and can also be accessed quickly via an alphabetical list of authors or the java navigation page. All of the sonnets included here (as well as most of those that are linked) are modernized texts for the general reader and are not presented for purposes of scholarly work

a site devoted to alliterative verse in Old English, Middle English, modern English. Forgotten Ground Regained contains translations, original texts, contemporary poetry written in alliterative styles, resources, commentaries, and links to related materi