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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:- 31,500 Poems and 2,024 Stories/Essays (with 10,485 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 Virtue Of Woman.	Friedrich Schiller	5
Voices Of The Night. Prelude.	William Henry Giles Kingston	126
Prologue To "Oedipus."	John Dryden	217
Memorial To D. C.	Edna St. Vincent Millay	41
March: an Ode	Algernon Charles Swinburne	563
From The Hymn Of Empedocles	Matthew Arnold	506
Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 - XXXV. - After Landing - The Valley Of Dover - Nov. 1820	William Wordsworth	223
Venetian Epigrams.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	110
The Colored Band	Paul Laurence Dunbar	112
That Day	Rudyard Kipling	322
The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - To Genoa.	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	31
Valgovind's Song in the Spring	Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)	126
The Emperor's Bird's-Nest	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	58
Apologia pro Vita Sua	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	924
To The Queen	Alfred Lord Tennyson	561
If Thou Wouldst Have Me Sing And Play.	Thomas Moore	32
Love and Scorn	Algernon Charles Swinburne	529
Dreams	Robert Herrick	403
A Letter To Her Husband	Anne Bradstreet	365
A Man Young And Old:- The Death Of The Hare	William Butler Yeats	552

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
A Soul’s Tragedy	Robert Browning	852
Uncle Bernac - A Memory Of The Empire	Arthur Conan Doyle	162
The Disappearance Of Lady Frances Carfax	Arthur Conan Doyle	272
The Fringes Of The Fleet - Labour And Refreshment	Rudyard Kipling	205
Baa Baa, Black Sheep	Rudyard Kipling	250
Cross Purposes	George MacDonald	48
Fellow-Townsmen	Thomas Hardy	177
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter XI	Wolcott Balestier	421
Mellonta Tauta	Edgar Allan Poe	493
Animal Farm	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	1332

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	(May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936)	69	34
2.	George William Russell	(10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935)	94	3
3.	John H. Ingram.	(?)	0	1
4.	Susanna Moodie	(6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885)	55	0
5.	David Rorie M.D.	(1867 - 1946)	26	0