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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
The Worker And The Work	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	22
Memory	William Wordsworth	511
The Ginestra, Or The Flower Of The Wilderness.	Giacomo Leopardi	134
Prayer	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	8
Half Fledged.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	18
The Curate And The Corpse.	Jean de La Fontaine	155
Upon The Nipples Of Julia's Breast	Robert Herrick	364
The Courtship Of The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò.	Edward Lear	157
Contrasts.	John Hartley	194
Paul Jones	John Charles McNeill	154
More Nonsense Limerick 56	Edward Lear	166
To The Lake	Edgar Allan Poe	572
Nursery Rhyme. CCCLIII. Games.	Unknown	4
The Five Carlins. A Scots Ballad.	Robert Burns	198
On My Birthday, July 21	Matthew Prior	453
Life's Track	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	10
Fog.	Emma Lazarus	167
Consecration	Madison Julius Cawein	365
My Wife’s Second Husband	Henry Lawson	761
The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten	Oliver Herford	237

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
France At War - IV - The Spirit Of The People	Rudyard Kipling	361
Mowgli’s Brothers	Rudyard Kipling	496
The Function Of The Poet	James Russell Lowell	134
High-Water Mark	Bret Harte (Francis)	813
Fort Amity.	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	137
A Seventh-Story Heaven	Richard Le Gallienne	160
The Gilded Roll	James Whitcomb Riley	354
The Fringes Of The Fleet - The Oldest Navy	Rudyard Kipling	318
The Landlord of the Big Flume Hotel	Bret Harte (Francis)	380
The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether	Edgar Allan Poe	1613
Loss Of Breath	Edgar Allan Poe	641
Down The Mine	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	457
The Appetite Of Tyranny - Including Letters To An Old Garibaldian	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	418
An Iconoclast.	Arthur Conan Doyle	329
Nicholas Dan And The Meek Almira	Edward Dyson	429
The Blindness Of One-Eyed Bogan	Henry Lawson	438
Mcclellan Or Lincoln?	James Russell Lowell	145
The "Slapping Sal."	Arthur Conan Doyle	352
Hal O’ The Draft	Rudyard Kipling	382
Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen As A Politician	Marietta Holley	235

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	John Campbell	(6 August 1845 – 2 May 1914)	48	0
2.	William Butler Yeats	(June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939)	384	0
3.	Walter R. Cassels	(4 September 1826 - 10 June 1907)	49	0
4.	Freeman Edwin Miller	(1864 - 1951)	72	0
5.	Thomas Moore	(28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852)	860	1
6.	Walter De La Mare	(25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956)	321	3
7.	Duncan Campbell Scott	()	48	0
8.	Ellis Parker Butler	(December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937)	74	9
9.	Horatio Alger, Jr.	(January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899)	65	52
10.	Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley	(1866-1913)	51	0