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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 comment 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
A Tale Of Society As It Is: From Facts, 1811.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	77
Warp And Woof	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	15
Pied Beauty	Gerard Manley Hopkins	228
The Garden	Sara Teasdale	469
What Little Things!	Madison Julius Cawein	316
The Sea-Bird.	Samuel Griswold Goodrich	240
Mean In Our Mean	Robert Herrick	676
Merlin	John Le Gay Brereton	1042
We Must Get Home	James Whitcomb Riley	68
Quick And Bitter	Yehuda Amichai	894
Sonnet XXXV.	Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa	121
The Lovers' Litany	Rudyard Kipling	327
The Bride	Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)	177
The Ass And The Little Dog.	Jean de La Fontaine	159
Song	Anne Bronte	383
On The Departure Of Sir Walter Scott From Abbotsford	William Wordsworth	277
Hey For A Lass Wi' A Tocher.	Robert Burns	299
Wishes For A Little Girl	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	6
By-And-By.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	14
Elizabeth	Edgar Allan Poe	608

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Cast-iron Canvasser	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	409
Humin Natur' On The Han'Bul 'Nd St. Jo	Eugene Field	222
The Fairies Of Pesth ^[1]	Eugene Field	218
The Melancholy Hussar Of The German Legion	Thomas Hardy	217
Adrift In New York Or, Tom And Florence Braving The World	Horatio Alger, Jr.	318
Freedom Of The Park	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	464
Israel Potter	Herman Melville	232
The Telegraph Boy	Horatio Alger, Jr.	290
The Conversion Of St. Wilfrid	Rudyard Kipling	301
For Auld Lang Syne	Henry Lawson	600
The Gold-Stealers - A Story Of Waddy - Chapter V	Edward Dyson	398
How The Camel Got His Hump	Rudyard Kipling	475
Two Gallants	James Joyce	441
Work: A Story Of Experience.	Louisa May Alcott	406
Corporal Sam.	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	143
France At War - III - Battle Spectacle And A Review	Rudyard Kipling	351
The Shearer’s Colt - Part I - Chapter VII - A Racecourse Brawl	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	418
Something Of Myself - Chaper I - A Very Young Person	Rudyard Kipling	346
Desultory Thoughts On Criticism - (Wolfert’s Roost and Miscellanies)	Washington Irving	447
The Scot And The War - Edinburgh University: July 1920	Rudyard Kipling	287

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Sidney Lanier	(February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881)	100	0
2.	Fay Inchfawn	(1880 - ?)	44	0
3.	Thomas Edward Brown	(May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897)	24	0
4.	William Hayley	(November 9, 1745 - November 12, 1820)	36	1
5.	Thomas Hardy	(2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928)	663	43
6.	Louisa May Alcott	(November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888)	78	25
7.	A. H. Laidlaw	(?)	37	0
8.	Heinrich Hoffmann	(1809-1894)	21	0
9.	Walter Savage Landor	(January 30, 1775 – September 17, 1864)	129	0
10.	Eugene Field	(September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895)	324	67