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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
A Murmur In The Trees To Note,	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	283
Exmoor Verses III. Dereliction	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	65
A Gleam Of Sunshine	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	112
Spleen Iv	Charles Baudelaire	270
An Image From A Past Life	William Butler Yeats	649
Dr. Sam	Eugene Field	201
Upon Her Blush.	Robert Herrick	71
Under The Waterfall	Thomas Hardy	121
My Dancin'-Days Is Over	James Whitcomb Riley	49
The Universal Prayer. Deo Opt. Max.	Alexander Pope	54
The Chances	Wilfred Edward Salter Owen	77
An Appeal.	William Schwenck Gilbert	186
The Happy Little Cripple	James Whitcomb Riley	48
I Keep Six Honest..	Rudyard Kipling	550
Little Orphant Annie	James Whitcomb Riley	54
On the Death of the late Earl of Rochester	Aphra Behn	986
The Haunted House	George MacDonald	115
Come Down	George MacDonald	81
Evening Beauty: Blackfriars	John Frederick Freeman	185
Adoration	Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)	169

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Something Of Myself - Chaper V - The Committee Of Ways And Means	Rudyard Kipling	265
The Home-Coming	Arthur Conan Doyle	308
Haunted Subalterns	Rudyard Kipling	446
The Land Ironclads	H. G. Wells	786
The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh.	Bret Harte (Francis)	380
The Gold-Stealers - A Story Of Waddy - Chapter XIV	Edward Dyson	343
Doctor Unonius.	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	114
The Light That Failed - Chapter XV	Rudyard Kipling	267
Susie Gannon’s Young Man	Edward Dyson	348
The King’s Ankus	Rudyard Kipling	273
The Merino Sheep	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	388
Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym - Chapter IX	Edgar Allan Poe	378
France At War - I - On The Frontier Of Civilization	Rudyard Kipling	306
The Poet At The Breakfast Table	Oliver Wendell Holmes	231
The White Seal	Rudyard Kipling	218
Reconstruction	James Russell Lowell	136
The Fringes Of The Fleet - The Man And The Work	Rudyard Kipling	270
Life In Inverted Commas	Richard Le Gallienne	113
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	308
Souvenirs Of An Egoist	Ernest Christopher Dowson	363

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Edna St. Vincent Millay	(February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950)	96	0
2.	Thomas Moore	(28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852)	860	1
3.	Bliss Carman (William)	(April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929)	122	0
4.	Edwin C. Ranck	(1879)	63	0
5.	Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke	(24 April 1846—2 August 1881)	1	18
6.	Thomas Hardy	(2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928)	663	43
7.	Stephen Phillips	(28 July 1864 – December 9, 1915)	4	0
8.	Louisa May Alcott	(November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888)	78	25
9.	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	(December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886)	448	0
10.	Hattie Howard	()	87	0