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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:- 32,222 Poems and 2,031 Stories/Essays (with 10,522 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
The Missionary. Canto Second.	William Lisle Bowles	291
Rokeby: Canto III.	Walter Scott (Sir)	573
A Lament.	Victor-Marie Hugo	159
An Ode. The Merchant, To Secure	Matthew Prior	418
Oh What A Wreck! How Changed In Mien And Speech!	William Wordsworth	220
A Discouraging Model	James Whitcomb Riley	52
The Daughter Of Jephthah Among The Mountains.	Mary Gardiner Horsford	175
Celia To Damon	Matthew Prior	440
Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic	Algernon Charles Swinburne	278
	Alfred Edward Housman	140
From the Book of the Eagle	George William Russell	61
On A Tree Fallen Across The Road	Robert Lee Frost	515
No Man Goeth Alone	William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)	80
Shut Out.	John Hartley	148
Exiled	Edna St. Vincent Millay	98
The Last Of March. Written At Lolham Brigs.	John Clare	259
A Simile.	Victor-Marie Hugo	163
Marsyas	Matthew Arnold	467
The Shepherdess	Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell	113
Sonnets From The Portuguese XL	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	461

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter XVI	Wolcott Balestier	447
Rose In Bloom	Louisa May Alcott	403
The God From The Machine	Rudyard Kipling	265
A Little Love Affair	Edward Dyson	693
Happy Dispatches - Chapter XI. Rudyard Kipling	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	417
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag	Louisa May Alcott	315
From Sea To Sea - Volume 1 - From Sea To Sea - VI	Rudyard Kipling	452
Orthodoxy	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	293
The Fringes Of The Fleet - Labour And Refreshment	Rudyard Kipling	260
On The Edge Of A Plain	Henry Lawson	386
North And South	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	437
Struggling Upward; Or Luke Larkin's Luck	Horatio Alger, Jr.	245
Cast Upon The Breakers	Horatio Alger, Jr.	288
A Zealot In Labour	Edward Dyson	353
The Man Who Could Work Miracles	H. G. Wells	1298
A Child Of Nature	Edward Dyson	1101
The Man-Eater	Edward Dyson	326
James Whitcomb Riley - A Sketch	Unknown	120
The Boarding House	James Joyce	420
Avril - Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance	Hilaire Belloc	321

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Richard Hunter	()	24	0
2.	Morris Rosenfeld	(December 28, 1862 – June 22, 1923)	39	0
3.	Bret Harte (Francis)	(August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902)	120	70
4.	George MacDonald	(10 December 1824 — 18 September 1905)	588	71
5.	H. G. Wells	(September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946)	0	57
6.	Joaquin Miller	(September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913)	19	0
7.	Erasmus Darwin	(12 December 1731–18 April 1802)	8	0
8.	J. L. Duff	()	1	0
9.	Virna Sheard	(1865?-1943)	60	0
10.	Michael Fairless	(1869 - 1901)	14	0