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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
Sonnet XXXV.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	53
Comfortable Light	John Frederick Freeman	206
The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up High Black Walls, Up Sombre Terraces	Conrad Potter Aiken	863
Gingerbread	Louisa May Alcott	293
Alone	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	296
Revisitation	John Frederick Freeman	176
Shipwreck.	Robert Herrick	87
Faded Pictures	William Vaughn Moody	132
Grand Chorus of Birds from Aristophanes	Algernon Charles Swinburne	275
Elegy	Edna St. Vincent Millay	94
Earth! My Likeness!	Walt Whitman	630
Riches.	Madison Julius Cawein	124
A Sunday Morning Tragedy	Thomas Hardy	239
Au Tombeau de Banville	Algernon Charles Swinburne	532
Philomel And Progne.	Jean de La Fontaine	132
Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 - XXXV. - After Landing - The Valley Of Dover - Nov. 1820	William Wordsworth	258
The Martyr Of Alabama.	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	191
The Death Of Raschi.	Emma Lazarus	111
A Plaint To Man	Thomas Hardy	166
Grace	Ralph Waldo Emerson	216

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Mystery Of Marie Roget	Edgar Allan Poe	522
Bill, The Lokil Editor	Eugene Field	222
A Hot Day At Spats’	Edward Dyson	936
Drifted Back	Henry Lawson	399
White Soul	Richard Le Gallienne	188
B.A.	Frederic William Moorman	178
Dick Boyle’s Business Card	Bret Harte (Francis)	367
Settling On The Land	Henry Lawson	409
Struggling Upward; Or Luke Larkin's Luck	Horatio Alger, Jr.	245
A Clergyman’s Daughter	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	1473

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Edwin C. Ranck	(1879)	63	0
2.	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	(March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)	146	0
3.	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	(11 November 1836 – 19 March 1907)	36	17
4.	Evan Lloyd	(1734 - 1776)	1	0
5.	Helen Beatrix Potter	(28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943)	8	21