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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
Friendship.	Friedrich Schiller	89
An Elegy Upon The Death Of The Dean Of St. Paul's, Dr. John	Thomas Carew	295
The Close Of Summer	Madison Julius Cawein	147
Playing At Priests.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	176
Christmas Eve	Madison Julius Cawein	297
To William Hayley, Esq.	William Cowper	331
Nothing New.	Robert Herrick	108
George Ade	Oliver Herford	215
My own heart	Gerard Manley Hopkins	185
The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision of Hell, Or The Inferno: Canto XVII	Dante Alighieri	249
Verses Selected From An Occasional Poem Entitled “Valediction.”	William Cowper	289
Book Of Nonsense Limerick 99.	Edward Lear	186
Cherry Ripe	Robert Herrick	442
Her Hair	James Whitcomb Riley	73
To the Hills!	Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)	202
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 11: Conversation: Undertones	Conrad Potter Aiken	697
A Tree in the Ghetto	Morris Rosenfeld	98
Vastness	Alfred Lord Tennyson	682
You Will Hear Thunder	Anna Akhmatova	847
Song.	Thomas Moore	78

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
A Garland For Girls	Louisa May Alcott	786
The Broken Link Handicap	Rudyard Kipling	325
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter VII	Wolcott Balestier	1283
The Old Man	Eugene Field	221
Warlock o' Glenwarlock	George MacDonald	184
Eveline	James Joyce	446
The Lonesome Little Shoe	Eugene Field	232
Hetty Wesley	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	137
How The First Letter Was Written	Rudyard Kipling	461
Do And Dare A Brave Boy's Fight For Fortune	Horatio Alger, Jr.	327
"De Profundis"	Arthur Conan Doyle	345
Far From The Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy	261
The Talisman	Eugene Field	226
The Shape of Things to Come	H. G. Wells	744
From Sea To Sea - The Smith Administration - The Serai Cabal	Rudyard Kipling	391
The Tragedy of Coriolanus	William Shakespeare	616
Cyprian Overbeck Wells--A Literary Mosaic.	Arthur Conan Doyle	358
The Dog - as a Sportsman	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	583
The Shearer’s Colt - Part II - Chapter XIII - London Bound	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	421
Mr. And Mrs. Sin Fat	Edward Dyson	566

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Pat O'Cotter	()	19	0
2.	John Masefield	(1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967)	40	0
3.	George Pope Morris	(1802 - 1864)	144	2
4.	John Charles McNeill	(1874 - 1907)	59	0
5.	Oliver Goldsmith	(10 November 1730? – 4 April 1774)	40	0
6.	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	(October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834)	53	0
7.	Robert Southey	(12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843)	72	2
8.	Ramakrishna, T.	(?)	10	0
9.	Joseph Rodman Drake	(August 17, 1795–September 21, 1820)	19	0
10.	Philip Sidney (Sir)	(30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586)	147	1