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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
Geraldine	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	18
Equity	George MacDonald	233
Lines Intended To Be Written Under A Noble Earl's Picture.	Robert Burns	222
Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment	William Butler Yeats	633
Barthelemon At Vauxhall	Thomas Hardy	236
Song Of Slaves In The Desert	John Greenleaf Whittier	328
Forgetting Someone	Yehuda Amichai	781
Nocturne ["I Sit To-Night By The Firelight,"]	Abram Joseph Ryan	95
Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	70
Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain Or Guilt And Sorrow	William Wordsworth	650
When Baby Strayed	Fay Inchfawn	180
Night	Madison Julius Cawein	251
Monotones	Algernon Charles Swinburne	531
Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XXXIII - Regrets	William Wordsworth	373
The Wake	Robert Herrick	632
O Were I On Parnassus Hill.	Robert Burns	239
The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Prophecy Of Judgment. No. 1. The Reign Of Antichrist.	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	104
Listening	John Frederick Freeman	227
A Song For The Hills.	Charles Hamilton Musgrove	123
To Leonora (3)	John Milton	572

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Ballad Of The White Horse	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	441
The Ruinous Face	Maurice Henry Hewlett	226
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror	Walter Scott (Sir)	799
The Record Of Badalia Herodsfoot	Rudyard Kipling	307
Black Joe	Henry Lawson	412
After The Accident	Edward Dyson	390
William The Conqueror - Part II	Rudyard Kipling	381
Lionizing	Edgar Allan Poe	585
From Canal Boy To President Or The BoyhooD And Manhood Of James A. Garfield	Horatio Alger, Jr.	312
A Changed Man	Thomas Hardy	736
The Little People Of The Snow.	William Cullen Bryant	331
Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym - Chapter XV	Edgar Allan Poe	421
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter III	Rudyard Kipling	310
Essay On Luxury.	Horace Smith	378
Put up wi' it.	John Hartley	258
Mi First Testimonial.	John Hartley	229
As Easy As A.B.C.	Rudyard Kipling	402
A Scandal In Bohemia	Arthur Conan Doyle	288
N. N.: Being A Novel in the French Paragraphic Style	Bret Harte (Francis)	444
The Distracted Preacher	Thomas Hardy	243

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Horace Smith	(1836 - 1922)	17	3
2.	Rudyard Kipling	(December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936)	641	528
3.	Thomas William Hodgson Crosland	(1865 - 1924)	13	1
4.	Theodosia Garrison	(1874 - 1944)	61	0
5.	Ambrose Bierce	(June 24, 1842 – 1914)	16	0
6.	Henry John Newbolt, Sir	(6 June 1862 – 19 April 1938)	121	0
7.	Alfred Edward Housman	(26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936)	105	0
8.	William Chatterton Dix	(June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898)	1	0
9.	Arthur Hugh Clough	(January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861)	132	2
10.	George Parsons Lathrop	(25 August 1851 – 19 April 1898)	91	0