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Public Domain Poetry & Stories.

Welcome to Public Domain Poetry and Stories. Here you will find poetry and stories that are now in the public domain, from past literary greats of historic times. It contains poetry from poets, stories, essays and other literature from many authors. Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.

Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed.
Please, if you find an error, let me know. - This is an ongoing site, more poetry will be added very regularly

We have:- 34,724 Poems and 2,052 Stories/Essays (with 10,708 Chapters) on site.

Unfortunately, listed here are probably only the better known poets. In these modern times in which we live, there are countless poets whose work disappears into oblivion with their passing, as probably will mine when that day arrives for myself. If you have any poetry that you would like to have featured here, be-it from a passed loved one, or friend, and you have permission to do so, please feel free to contact me so that we can see about adding it to these pages. - Footnote: My poetry can be viewed under my name at Your Poetry Dot Com.

20 Random Poems

Title	Author	Reads
To Laura In Death. Sonnet LXXIII.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	98
The Yew	John Frederick Freeman	185
Discovery.	Bliss Carman (William)	358
Highland Mary.	Robert Burns	292
Upon Rump.	Robert Herrick	99
The Deserter	Alfred Edward Housman	213
The Invitation.	Horatio Alger, Jr.	413
Summer met Me	Fay Inchfawn	209
Poems From "A Shropshire Lad" - IX	Alfred Edward Housman	185
Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXXXIV. Love And Matrimony.	Unknown	10
Resurrection	Richard Le Gallienne	152
The Harp Of The Minstrel	James Whitcomb Riley	64
Midnight Mass For The Dying Year	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	129
The Sun Upon The Weirdlaw Hill	Walter Scott (Sir)	383
Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LIV	Philip Sidney (Sir)	82
Mesalliance.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	4
Lines on the Monument of Giuseppe Mazzini	Algernon Charles Swinburne	625
The Fog	Lola Ridge	68
Nursery Rhyme. DLXX. Natural History.	Unknown	4
He That Is Down Need Fear No Fall	Louisa May Alcott	351

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Something Of Myself - Chaper VII - The Very-Own House	Rudyard Kipling	314
The Goddess of Excelsior	Bret Harte (Francis)	368
A Knight-Errant of the Foothills	Bret Harte (Francis)	575
From Sea to Sea - Volume 1 - Letters Of Marque - VIII	Rudyard Kipling	283
Miracles Of Our Lord	George MacDonald	167
The Divell's Chrystmass.	Eugene Field	225
One Crowded Hour	Arthur Conan Doyle	261
The Spirit Of The Latin - Brazilian Academy Of Letters, Rio: March 1927	Rudyard Kipling	266
Shall We Gather At The River?	Henry Lawson	425
Kim - Chapter 6	Rudyard Kipling	494
They Wait On The Wharf In Black	Henry Lawson	340
Letter To An Unsuccessful Literary Man	Richard Le Gallienne	162
Through The Veil.	Arthur Conan Doyle	324
Inside The Whale - Part III	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	594
Gettin’ Back On Dave Regan	Henry Lawson	573
From Sea To Sea - Volume 2 - From Sea To Sea - XXVI	Rudyard Kipling	309
Heaven And Earth; A Mystery.	George Gordon Byron	343
The Fringes Of The Fleet - The Auxiliaries II	Rudyard Kipling	301
Coals of Fire	Frederic William Moorman	196
The Mystery of Burt's Babby	John Hartley	219

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	William Wordsworth	(April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850)	969	0
2.	James Williams	(1851 - 1911)	30	0
3.	Samuel Rogers	(30 July 1763 - 18 December 1855)	34	0
4.	Bliss Carman (William)	(April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929)	122	0
5.	Arthur Hugh Clough	(January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861)	132	2
6.	Harriet Annie Wilkins	(1829 - 1888)	24	0
7.	Josephine Preston Peabody	(1874 - December 4, 1922)	14	0
8.	Walter Scott (Sir)	(15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832)	163	8
9.	Alfred Edward Housman	(26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936)	105	0
10.	Stephen Vincent Benet	(July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943)	33	1