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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
Shoo's thi Sister.	John Hartley	198
The Rubaiyat Of A Kentuckian.	Edwin C. Ranck	71
The Child's Wish Granted	George Parsons Lathrop	161
The "Qu'Appelle" Valley.	John Campbell	317
A Code Of Morals	Rudyard Kipling	749
The Day Of Days.	William Morris	103
On The Same Occasion - (On Seeing The Foundation Preparing For The Erection Of Rydal Chapel, Westmoreland)	William Wordsworth	297
The Revolt Of Islam. - Canto 1.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	88
"Ave Caesar"	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	472
Sappers	Rudyard Kipling	540
Absence	James Russell Lowell	125
Sonnets - X	James Russell Lowell	127
The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter	Matthew Prior	451
The Temptation	Charles Baudelaire	298
What We Needed.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	6
Epitaph XIV. On Edmund Duke Of Buckingham, Who Died In The Nineteenth Year Of His Age, 1735.	Alexander Pope	101
Sonnet I*.	Edmund Spenser	333
Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet LXV	Philip Sidney (Sir)	79
The Devil's Walk. A Ballad.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	71
A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid	William Schwenck Gilbert	254

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Transferable Lives	Richard Le Gallienne	177
Bon-Bon	Edgar Allan Poe	441
Glover’s Little Joke	Edward Dyson	563
False Dawn	Rudyard Kipling	372
At Dead Dingo	Henry Lawson	444
Sea Warfare - Destroyers at Jutland - II - The Night Hunt	Rudyard Kipling	386
Kim - Chapter 13	Rudyard Kipling	543
The Cruise Of The Dolphin	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	320
The Funerals Of Malachi Mooney	Edward Dyson	416
Peter Parley's Tales About America And Australia	Samuel Griswold Goodrich	253
The Valley Of Fear	Arthur Conan Doyle	257
From Sea To Sea - The Smith Administration - A Letter from Golam Singh	Rudyard Kipling	385
The Dream Of Duncan Parrenness	Rudyard Kipling	283
Below And On Top - Chapter 1	Edward Dyson	595
Appreciations And Criticisms Of The Works Of Charles Dickens	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	441
Beyond The Pale	Rudyard Kipling	370
Two Dogs And A Fence	Henry Lawson	1614
Fantine - After the French of Victor Hugo	Bret Harte (Francis)	403
Sylvie And Bruno	Lewis Carroll	373
Where Is Mary Alice Smith?	James Whitcomb Riley	357

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Harriet Annie Wilkins	(1829 - 1888)	24	0
2.	Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory	(15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932)	36	0
3.	John Alexander McCrae	(November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918)	30	0
4.	Samuel Rogers	(30 July 1763 - 18 December 1855)	34	0
5.	Samuel Griswold Goodrich	(August 19, 1793 - May 9, 1860)	38	1
6.	Dante Alighieri	(May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321)	100	1
7.	John Moran	()	0	1
8.	António Corrêa	(Late 1800's)	1	0
9.	J. L. Duff	()	1	0
10.	James Thomson	(11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748)	10	0