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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
Lachlan Side	Henry Lawson	639
The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon	John Keats	1578
The House Of Dust: Part 04: 05: The Bitter Love-Song	Conrad Potter Aiken	699
Sonnet	Thomas Gent	186
Rivers And Streams (Prose)	Michael Fairless	304
Bannocks O' Barley.	Robert Burns	296
The Gospel Women. - The Woman Who Came Behind Him In The Crowd	George MacDonald	112
The Maid of Gerringong	Henry Kendall	521
A January Night	Thomas Hardy	294
A Gem	Joseph Horatio Chant	274
Norembega	John Greenleaf Whittier	504
Cobwebs.	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	318
To Isabel.	Nora Pembroke (Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall)	114
Spanish Romance - Prose	Washington Irving	965
The Resurrection.	Robert Herrick	118
On The Road To Gundagai	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	98
The Sonnets CXXXIII - Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan	William Shakespeare	365
Alphabet, No. 6.	Edward Lear	229
To The East And To The West	Walt Whitman	360
The Ballad of the Northern Lights	Robert William Service	93

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Telling Mrs Baker	Henry Lawson	449
An Ali Baba of the Sierras	Bret Harte (Francis)	402
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist	H. G. Wells	1413
Seeing The Last Of You	Henry Lawson	429
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter I	Wolcott Balestier	527
The Pagan Seal-Wife^[1]	Eugene Field	236
You And The Atomic Bomb - Essay	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	445
A Sea Dog	Rudyard Kipling	339
A Story of the Stone Age	H. G. Wells	1830
Lispeth	Rudyard Kipling	353
The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether	Edgar Allan Poe	1603
Lessing[147]	James Russell Lowell	123
A Sabbath Morn At Waddy	Edward Dyson	378
Bob Brierley's Bull Pup.	John Hartley	251
Through The Magic Door	Arthur Conan Doyle	215
The Function Of The Poet	James Russell Lowell	127
The Shagganappi	Emily Pauline Johnson	284
A Bank Fraud	Rudyard Kipling	1582
The Shearer’s Colt - Part I - Chapter II - Fitzroy’s Mistake	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	422
The Fringes Of The Fleet - Patrols II	Rudyard Kipling	295

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	(March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)	146	0
2.	Jan Kochanowski	(1530 – August 22, 1584)	19	0
3.	John Keats	(31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821)	147	0
4.	John Alexander McCrae	(November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918)	30	0
5.	Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	(1832 - 1879)	108	0
6.	Archibald Lampman	(17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899)	141	0
7.	J. C. Yule, (Pamela S. Vining)	(Late 1800's ?)	124	0
8.	Ringgold Wilmer Lardner	(March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933)	30	0
9.	William Vaughn Moody	(1869 - 1910)	23	0
10.	Samuel Griswold Goodrich	(August 19, 1793 - May 9, 1860)	38	1