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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:- 30,996 Poems and 2,021 Stories/Essays (with 10,402 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
Persephone.	Jean Ingelow	106
The Cock & The Pearl	Walter Crane	279
Portrait Of A Baby	Stephen Vincent Benet	225
To Miss Atkinson, On The Extreme Diffidence Which She Displays To Strangers.	John Carr (Sir)	201
Brown Of Ossawatomie	John Greenleaf Whittier	324
The Gospel Women. - Pilate's Wife	George MacDonald	42
Disarmament	John McCrae	662
A Mother To The Sea.	Charles Hamilton Musgrove	39
Night	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	51
O Cupid, Cupid; Get Your Bow!	Henry Lawson	336
The Crisis	Paul Laurence Dunbar	128
Youth	Henry John Newbolt, Sir	19
A Girl's Day Dream And Its Fulfilment.	Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	81
Translation of: The Odyssey of Homer: Book XVI	William Cowper	188
The Captain	John Alexander McCrae	49
By The Seaside	William Wordsworth	544
The Four Presents	Walter Crane	187
To Monsignor Lodovico Beccadelli. Urbino.	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	41
Back-View - To D. F.	William Ernest Henley	148
When Love Was A Child (Swedish Air.)	Thomas Moore	22

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Butterfly That Stamped	Rudyard Kipling	209
Brighten’s Sister-In-Law	Henry Lawson	312
Sweet-One-Darling And The Moon-Garden	Eugene Field	126
Sea Warfare - Tales Of “The Trade” - I - Some Work In The Baltic	Rudyard Kipling	222
God The Invisible King	H. G. Wells	551
Work: A Story Of Experience.	Louisa May Alcott	311
The Hand Of Ethelberta	Thomas Hardy	124
A Naval Mutiny	Rudyard Kipling	851
How Fear Came	Rudyard Kipling	369
A Painful Case	James Joyce	388
Legends Of Vancouver	Emily Pauline Johnson	219
The Wrong Thing	Rudyard Kipling	142
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter XX	Wolcott Balestier	410
A Short History Of England	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	229
The Gold-Stealers - A Story Of Waddy - Chapter IX	Edward Dyson	283
The Coming Of The Huns	Arthur Conan Doyle	244
Rest Harrow A Comedy Of Resolution	Maurice Henry Hewlett	158
Kim - Chapter 2	Rudyard Kipling	440
Adela Cathcart, Vol. 1	George MacDonald	63
Rudyard Kipling - Essay	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	330

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Henry Lawson	(17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922)	475	164
2.	Dante Alighieri	(May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321)	100	1
3.	Oliver Herford	(1863 - 1935)	129	0
4.	Robert Lee Frost	(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)	168	0
5.	Anne Bradstreet	(1612 – September 16, 1672)	40	0
6.	Thomas Osborne Davis	(October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845)	35	0
7.	John Milton	(December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674)	131	1
8.	Marriott Edgar	(October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951)	35	0
9.	Arthur Hugh Clough	(January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861)	18	0
10.	A. H. Laidlaw	(?)	37	0