Quick Reference Resources: Poetry, Quotes & Speeches

Poetry

• Poets.Org: The Academy of American Poets
• Database of African-American Poetry, 1760-1900 
• Bartleby Verse
• British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832
• Poetry Archives
• Poetry: Poems of Acclaim
• Representative Poetry Online

• Columbia Granger's Index to African American Poetry (Reference PS153.N5 C558)
• Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry (Reference PN1022.G7)
• Last Lines: An Index to the Last Lines of Poetry, v. 1-2 (Reference PN1022.K55)

Quotations

• Familiar Quotations, Bartlett's (Reference PN6081.B27)
• The Quotations Page
• Quoteland.com

• Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (Reference PN6080.O95)
• Random House Webster's Quotationary (Reference PN6081.R29)

Speeches

• Douglass Archive of American Public Address
• Gifts of Speech; Women's Speeches from Around the World
• HistoryChannel.com
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
• Representative American Speeches (shelved in stacks at PS668 .B3)
• Vital Speeches of the Day (recent issues shelved in current periodicals; older issues shelved in stacks at PN6121.V52)
• Voices of Multicultural America; Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 (Reference PS663.M55 V64)