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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:- 32,222 Poems and 2,031 Stories/Essays (with 10,522 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
Book Of Nonsense Limerick 75.	Edward Lear	159
The Forest Of Fear	Madison Julius Cawein	167
My Woodland Bride.	George Pope Morris	70
Young Love XVII - "Canst thou be true across so many miles,"	Richard Le Gallienne	140
Rose-Morals.	Sidney Lanier	129
Ode To Ethiopia	Paul Laurence Dunbar	181
The Feast Of Victory.	Friedrich Schiller	52
The Old Wives' Prayer	Robert Herrick	585
Carry On!	Robert William Service	51
To Mrs. ....... On Some Calumnies Against Her Character.	Thomas Moore	62
Baptism In Lake Allumette	Nora Pembroke (Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall)	77
I'm Not A Single Man."^[1] - Lines Written In A Young Lady's Album.	Thomas Hood	161
To Constantia.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	50
Lay His Sword By His Side.	Thomas Moore	93
Mine And Thine. From A Flemish Poem Of The Fourteenth Century.	William Morris	68
Lament, Occasioned By The Unfortunate Issue Of A Friend's Amour.	Robert Burns	237
The River Duddon - A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. - VI - Flowers	William Wordsworth	523
Riddles	Ringgold Wilmer Lardner	162
Jacobite Song	Algernon Charles Swinburne	346
How Polly Paid For Her Keep	Barcroft Boake	759

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Balloon-Hoax	Edgar Allan Poe	392
The Shearer’s Colt - Part I - Chapter IV - Bush Hospitality	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	366
The Irish Guards In The Great War - Volume I - The First Battalion - 1915 - La Bassée To Laventie	Rudyard Kipling	325
Tom, The Bootblack; Or, The Road To Success	Horatio Alger, Jr.	245
The Tale Of Ginger & Pickles	Helen Beatrix Potter	79
The Fringes Of The Fleet - Submarines II	Rudyard Kipling	291
Buckolts’ Gate	Henry Lawson	372
The Winter's Tale	William Shakespeare	997
The Platonic Bassoon	Eugene Field	203
Souvenirs Of An Egoist	Ernest Christopher Dowson	363
The Distracted Preacher	Thomas Hardy	209
Malcolm	George MacDonald	118
The Case Of Lady Sannox	Arthur Conan Doyle	204
Triangles Of Life - II. Chawlton	Henry Lawson	340
Foe-Farrell	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	119
Ulysses	James Joyce	483
Captains Courageous - Chapter X	Rudyard Kipling	321
A Tale Of Jerusalem	Edgar Allan Poe	574
The Fringes Of The Fleet - The Nature Of The Beast	Rudyard Kipling	273
From Sea To Sea - Volume 1 - From Sea To Sea - XVI	Rudyard Kipling	299

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	John Kendall (Dum-Dum)	(?)	33	0
2.	William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)	()	150	0
3.	Charles Churchill	(February, 1731 - November 4, 1764)	24	0
4.	Ringgold Wilmer Lardner	(March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933)	30	0
5.	Enid Derham	(March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941)	8	0
6.	Alexander Pope	(21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744)	209	0
7.	James Henry Leigh Hunt	(October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859)	24	0
8.	Richard Lovelace	(1618 – 1657)	144	0
9.	John Milton	(December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674)	131	1
10.	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	(March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861)	115	0