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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
The Dreamer	Walter De La Mare	9
Nursery Rhyme. DCXXVII. Relics.	Unknown	4
Friar Lubin (Translation)	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	131
Fire!	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	96
Exiled	Edna St. Vincent Millay	125
Nursery Rhyme. CCXXXV. Riddles.	Unknown	7
Nursery Rhyme. CLXXX. Songs.	Unknown	3
I Hear America Singing	Walt Whitman	664
The Marchioness Of Brinvilliers	Herman Melville	111
Epilogue To 'The Good Natur'd Man'	Oliver Goldsmith	272
Ponte Dell’ Angelo, Venice	Robert Browning	744
Nursery Rhyme. LXII. Tales.	Unknown	4
From Anacreon. Ode 3.	George Gordon Byron	296
The Sonnets LXIX - Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view	William Shakespeare	670
With A Pressed Flower	James Russell Lowell	127
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As Evening Falls	Conrad Potter Aiken	856
On The Proposal To Erect A Monument In England To Lord Byron.	Emma Lazarus	150
Stanzas To Miss Wylie	John Keats	468
Poems and Ballads - Dedication	Algernon Charles Swinburne	298
No Other Name	J. C. Yule, (Pamela S. Vining)	13

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Light That Failed - Chapter XII	Rudyard Kipling	319
The Seward-Johnson Reaction	James Russell Lowell	110
Mi First Testimonial.	John Hartley	223
Real Life In London - Volume I	Conrad Potter Aiken	1378
The Hammerpond Park Burglary	H. G. Wells	808
The Bath	Henry Lawson	393
Happy Dispatches - Chapter I. Sir Alfred Milner	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	455
From Sea To Sea - Volume 2 - In An Opium Factory	Rudyard Kipling	291
The Selector’s Daughter - Part IV	Henry Lawson	327
Hop-Frog	Edgar Allan Poe	599
Young Men At The Manor	Rudyard Kipling	332
The Seaboard Parish, Volume III.	George MacDonald	163
Lilith	George MacDonald	172
Australian Loyalty (Essay)	Henry Lawson	553
The Jew On The Moor.	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	141
Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym - Chapter XXIV	Edgar Allan Poe	606
Arvie Aspinall’s Alarm Clock	Henry Lawson	593
Mitchell’s Jobs	Henry Lawson	576
For Conscience' Sake	Thomas Hardy	242
Adaminaby Letters (1887) -	Barcroft Boake	1733

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	John Dryden	(( 9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700 ))	126	0
2.	Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)	(1865 - 1904)	132	0
3.	Jean Ingelow	(17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897)	150	5
4.	Joseph Horatio Chant	(August 19, 1837 - June 8, 1928)	86	0
5.	Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell	(1847 - 1922)	58	0
6.	Toru Dutt	(March 4, 1856 - August 30, 1877)	20	0
7.	Horace Smith	(1836 - 1922)	17	3
8.	George W. Doneghy	()	64	0
9.	Edwin C. Ranck	(1879)	63	0
10.	Arthur Sherburne Hardy	(1847-1930)	12	0