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Browse these sites to read your favourite poems
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What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
— William Henry Davies
in Leisure
IN THIS busy life, make some time for yourself and indulge in your favourite poetry. Websites on the Internet offer good poetry for free. Whether you want to become a poet, or just admire the works of Shakespeare and Shelley, the Net provides you with plenty of opportunities.
Poetry.com
http://www.poetry.com/: This website has a comprehensive collection of poems under various classifications. It claims to have poems of about 5.1 million poets. Updated everyday, the portal has poetry competitions and tips to indulge oneself in creating poetry. This site also offers audio enhanced recordings of poems.
Free poetry
http://eserver.org/poetry/: This site has a large collection of poems written by W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth and others. It also includes complete texts of `Beowulf', `Don Juan', `Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and `The Iliad'. It also has links to some other websites and magazines offering free poetry online.
Funny poetry for kids
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/: As the name suggests, it has a collection of funny poems for children.They can take part in competitions, rate poems, read interviews of their favourite poets and learn much more. It has an eye-catching home page design.
Poets corner
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/: This site has a library of poems that cover a multitude of authors and poems, which go back thousands of years. The site also has the biographies of poets and the portraits of 125 bards.
Poetry archives
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/index.htm: This site offers a new poem every week and has a comprehensive list of poems in its archives. All poems appear in comic font and are fun to read. The classification is done by the names of poets. The site specifies the time when the poets used to live along with their collections of poems.
Representative poetry
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/index.cfm: This site has an anthology of poems of a large number of poets, some of whom are not very famous but have contributed some soulful poetry. This site offers a gamut of search options by the name of the poet, name of the poem, first line of the poem, and timeline of the poem
Academy of American poets
http://www.poets.org/: This portal has an exhaustive collection of poems by all American poets. It offers a variety of links including audio enhanced poems, biographies and discussion forums.
Metered poetry
http://www.poemtree.com/: This site has an anthology of both traditional and modern poetry. Poems can be found by the name of the author and are regularly updated. It is one of the few places that covers contemporary poetry. The site has articles and essays on poetry and regularly accepts feedback and comments.
Urdu poetry
http://www.urdupoetry.com/: This site is dedicated to ghazal and nazm lovers. The poetry archives are classified alphabetically and also by the names of poets. The site also offers a column for translation of English words into Urdu.
There is a transliteration scheme that simplifies the readers' understanding of Romanised Urdu poetry. It accepts contributions from visitors also.
AYYAPPA NAGUBANDI
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