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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
Anashuya And Vijaya	William Butler Yeats	691
The Hive At Gettysburg	John Greenleaf Whittier	533
Merdle The Banker.	Horatio Alger, Jr.	431
Sonnet 47	Michael Drayton	200
Others Save With Fear	Joseph Horatio Chant	295
Waiting To Marry A Student	Edward Powys Mathers (As Translator)	88
Prologue^[1] To The University Of Oxford, 1681.	John Dryden	269
Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part I. - XXVIII - Influence Abused	William Wordsworth	348
Splash, Dash!	Louisa May Alcott	331
O Beauty, Passing Beauty!	Alfred Lord Tennyson	460
Longing For Jerusalem. (Translations From The Hebrew Poets Of Medaeval Spain.)	Emma Lazarus	179
Old Scent Of The Plum-Tree	Edward Powys Mathers (As Translator)	132
The Ass In The Lion's Skin	Walter Crane	364
Roses And Rue	Sara Teasdale	450
To Eleonora Duse In "The Dead City"	Sara Teasdale	560
O Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet.	Robert Burns	280
Nursery Rhyme. LI. Tales.	Unknown	9
Poetics	A. R. Ammons	789
Lines Written On A Window Of The Globe Tavern, Dumfries.	Robert Burns	223
The Marionettes	Walter De La Mare	21

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
James Whitcomb Riley - A Sketch	Unknown	344
Geoffrey's Panklaggephone	Ellis Parker Butler	378
Young Lives	Richard Le Gallienne	230
Macaire - A Melodramatic Farce In Three Acts - The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson	William Ernest Henley	303
On Picket Duty And Other Tales	Louisa May Alcott	447
The Talisman	Eugene Field	231
The Spirit Of The Navy - A Naval Club: October 1908	Rudyard Kipling	294
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter XVI	Wolcott Balestier	471
The Judgment Of Dungara	Rudyard Kipling	309
The Buck-Jumper	Henry Lawson	396
The Devil and the Broker - A Mediaeval Legend	Bret Harte (Francis)	392
The Adventure Of The Bruce-Partington Plans	Arthur Conan Doyle	360
Sir Gibbie	George MacDonald	148
The Story Of The Oracle	Henry Lawson	338
A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays	Percy Bysshe Shelley	400
Sandra Belloni's Pinewood	Richard Le Gallienne	262
A Group Of Noble Dames	Thomas Hardy	426
Holiday Peak	Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke	1449
In Error	Rudyard Kipling	647
As You Like It	William Shakespeare	597

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Jean Ingelow	(17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897)	150	5
2.	Bertolt Brecht	(February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956)	32	0
3.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	(4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822)	332	1
4.	Charles Hamilton Musgrove	()	63	0
5.	Edward Young	(June 1681 - 5 April 1765)	33	2
6.	Abijah M. Ide	(1825 – 1873)	3	0
7.	Archibald Lampman	(17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899)	141	0
8.	H. G. Wells	(September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946)	0	57
9.	Lucy Hamilton Hooper	(1835-1893)	0	1
10.	Morris Rosenfeld	(December 28, 1862 – June 22, 1923)	39	0