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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
So Proud She Was To Die	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	283
Pansies.	Kate Seymour Maclean	129
Columbian Ode	Paul Laurence Dunbar	204
Not a Child	Algernon Charles Swinburne	551
An Evening Prayer	George MacDonald	145
Song	James Russell Lowell	122
The Second Coming	William Butler Yeats	437
Cancelled Passage Of Mont Blanc.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	91
Nursery Rhyme. DCXXXVIII. Relics.	Unknown	9
The Question	Algernon Charles Swinburne	341
Battle Days	George Parsons Lathrop	180
Rispetto	Sara Teasdale	589
Song Of The Open Road	Walt Whitman	596
Robert Parkes	Henry Kendall	545
At The Banquet To The Grand Duke Alexis	Oliver Wendell Holmes	233
The First Canzone Of The Convito. From The Italian Of Dante.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	73
The Pleasures of Imagination - The Second Book - Poem	Mark Akenside	728
Upon A Child That Died	Robert Herrick	378
To The Life Eternal	George MacDonald	115
Psal. II Done into verse	John Milton	635

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Making His Way Or Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward	Horatio Alger, Jr.	304
The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfaal	Edgar Allan Poe	421
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5	Louisa May Alcott	320
The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go	Charles Henry Bennett	439
At Zekesbury	James Whitcomb Riley	353
American Notes - Chicago	Rudyard Kipling	346
Wordsworth.	James Russell Lowell	147
Don Juan	George Gordon Byron	370
A Vision of Judgment	H. G. Wells	636
Never Bet The Devil Your Head - A Tale With A Moral.	Edgar Allan Poe	610
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	331
The Strangers’ Friend	Henry Lawson	335
The Island Or, Christian And His Comrades.	George Gordon Byron	382
The Judgment Of Borso	Maurice Henry Hewlett	244
The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance	Robert William Service	450
Greybeards At Play	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	387
The Answer Of The Rose	Richard Le Gallienne	178
The Barbarism Of Berlin	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	416
Two Boys At Grinder Brothers’	Henry Lawson	344
John Jenkins or The Smoker Reformed	Bret Harte (Francis)	401

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Enid Derham	(March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941)	8	0
2.	John Carr (Sir)	(1772 - 1832)	112	1
3.	Harriet Annie Wilkins	(1829 - 1888)	24	0
4.	Violet Jacob	(1 September 1863 - 9 September 1946)	46	0
5.	Clement Clarke Moore	(July 15, 1779–July 10, 1863)	2	0
6.	Charles Churchill	(February, 1731 - November 4, 1764)	24	0
7.	Walter Crane	(15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915)	150	1
8.	Horatio Alger, Jr.	(January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899)	65	52
9.	William Schwenck Gilbert	(1836 - 1911)	172	1
10.	Thomas Frederick Young	(? - 1940)	80	0