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Literature Online Full-Text Access to English-language creative works,  Choose "texts," then "poetry." Search by keyword, title word, author, publication date or range, gender, nationality, literary movement, period, and more.

Literature Resource Center  Select "Works Search," then "Type of Work: Poem" (pull down), adding other limiters as known/desired: title, author, publication year, century, language, gender, nationality, and ethnicity.

Poetry Foundation - browse poems  Also see search box (upper right).

URSUS  You can search URSUS by author, title or subject to find books of poetry in the URSUS system.  The same search can be repeated in MaineCat by clicking on the "Search MaineCat" link from within URSUS.

• Keyword "poems" or "poetry,"  perhaps combined with an author's last name.
• Subject headings (samples):  
• African Americans -- Poetry
• Children's poetry
• Poetry
• Canadian poetry
• Poets, American -- Maine
• Erotic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
• Love poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
• American poetry

Google Books

Internet Archive

HathiTrust Digital Library

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

From the OED, to explicate: "to make clear the meaning of (anything); to remove difficulties or obscurities from; to clear up, explain."

The Explicator (journal) 1976 - present  Search "Within current journal" or "Search within this publication"

• Database of Victorian Periodical Poetry (Victorian Poetry Network)
• The Poetry Archive
• For Better for Verse
• Representative Poetry Online
• American Verse Project (Michigan)
• Modern American Poetry
• Project Gutenberg Poetry Bookshelf
• Electronic Poetry Center
• PennSound
• Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (LC)

• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics  (also print: REF PN1021 .N39 2012)
• Glossary of PoeticTerms (Poetry Foundation) subcategories: Forms & Types, Rhythm & Meter, Schools & Periods, Techniques & Figures of Speech, Theory & Criticism

• Representative Poetry Online (University of Toronto) 
  "3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon,in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today"
• British Women Romantic Poets,1789 - 1832 (UC - Davis) 
• The First World War Poetry Digital Archive (Oxford)
• Emily Dickinson  Harvard  Amherst College
• Spenser Online (Cambridge)
• the milton-l home page (University of Richmond)
• The William Blake Archive
• The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• The Walt Whitman Archive (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)