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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
An Ode For The Fourth Of July, 1876	James Russell Lowell	112
The Pastoral Letter	John Greenleaf Whittier	495
Eight Years Old	Algernon Charles Swinburne	503
To Julia.	Robert Herrick	95
No Escaping The Scourging.	Robert Herrick	98
Our Mat	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	575
The Sadness Of The Moon	Charles Baudelaire	257
The Kiss	Siegfried Loraine Sassoon	61
Little Bateese	William Henry Drummond	804
The Harp	Virna Sheard	67
The Loving One Once More.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	149
What Was Lost	William Butler Yeats	358
I Heard Immanuel Singing	Vachel Lindsay	112
To Show What A Man Can Do	Henry Lawson	493
The Tables Turned	William Wordsworth	526
The Paroo River	Henry Lawson	421
In Summer.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	200
Three Years She Grew	William Wordsworth	233
The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision of Hell, Or The Inferno: Canto XXIX	Dante Alighieri	232
Grace	Ralph Waldo Emerson	216

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Letter To Mr. B--. "West Point, 1831 (Introduction To Poems.--1831.)	Edgar Allan Poe	325
The Birds Of Spring - (Wolfert’s Roost and Miscellanies)	Washington Irving	395
A Miscellany Of Men	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	344
The Dead	James Joyce	408
Little Foxes - A Tale Of The Gihon Hunt	Rudyard Kipling	313
In A Wet Season	Henry Lawson	532
The Conversion Of St. Wilfrid	Rudyard Kipling	253
The Story Of The Gadsbys - III - The Tents Of Kedar	Rudyard Kipling	228
Letters To Jack Cornstalk - II. From An Australian In London	Henry Lawson	518
Colloquies on Society	Robert Southey	93
Enter A Dragoon	Thomas Hardy	224
A Painful Case	James Joyce	455
The Grave By The Handpost	Thomas Hardy	185
Lilith	George MacDonald	136
The Defendant	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	351
The Wandering Jew	Rudyard Kipling	247
Waking From Dreams - High Commissioner’s Lunch, Strasbourg: November 1921	Rudyard Kipling	295
The Luck of Roaring Camp	Bret Harte (Francis)	349
The Light That Failed - Chapter IX	Rudyard Kipling	265
The Coming Of The Huns	Arthur Conan Doyle	304

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	George Colman	(October 21, 1762–October 17, 1836)	8	0
2.	James Hebblethwaite	(22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921)	4	0
3.	Charles G. Leland	(August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903)	53	0
4.	William Allingham	(March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889)	48	0
5.	Edward Dyson	(1865-1931)	95	98
6.	John H. Ingram.	(?)	0	1
7.	Mary Gardiner Horsford	(1824 - 1855)	32	0
8.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	(July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374)	375	0
9.	Jean C. Archer.	()	2	0
10.	Oliver Wendell Holmes	(August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894)	331	6