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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:- 38,859 Poems and 2,232 Books/Stories/Essays (with 16,610 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
Long Ago	Paul Laurence Dunbar	386
Flowers And Stars.	Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	294
Bad May Be Better.	Robert Herrick	412
God's Bounty.	Robert Herrick	360
The Sonnets CIV - To me, fair friend, you never can be old	William Shakespeare	830
The Translator And The Children	James Elroy Flecker	421
A Living Poet	Henry Kendall	624
A Letter From Italy	Joseph Addison	2669
Under The Rose	Madison Julius Cawein	456
The Gipsy Girl	Ralph Hodgson	25
Sonnet CCVIII.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	314
Sonnet LV.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	265
Song, By A Person Of Quality	Alexander Pope	831
Inscription V. For A Monument At Silbury-Hill.	Robert Southey	307
Her Valentine	James Whitcomb Riley	285
Cases - Commonwealth V. Marzynski	James Williams	215
To My Father's Violin	Thomas Hardy	318
Punishment	George MacDonald	347
Fragment: 'I Stood Upon A Heaven-Cleaving Turret'.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	328
Death And Birth	George MacDonald	309

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Georgian Poetry 1913-15	Various Authors	34
The Elect Lady	George MacDonald	646
Lalla Rookh	Thomas Moore	614
Never Bet The Devil Your Head - A Tale With A Moral.	Edgar Allan Poe	995
Georgian Poetry 1911-12	Various Authors	76
The Divell's Chrystmass.	Eugene Field	578
Dukie M‘kenzie’s Dawnce	Edward Dyson	1057
The Errand Boy; Or, How Phil Brent Won Success.	Horatio Alger, Jr.	742
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man	James Joyce	963
The Scot And The War - Edinburgh University: July 1920	Rudyard Kipling	697

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke	(24 April 1846—2 August 1881)	1	18
2.	Jean Ingelow	(17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897)	150	5
3.	Thomas Osborne Davis	(October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845)	4	0
4.	Robert Fuller Murray	(1863 - 1894)	134	0
5.	Paul Bewsher	(1894 - 1966)	23	0