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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
Anecdote For Fathers.	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	378
The Sorrow Of Love	William Butler Yeats	983
Memory	William Butler Yeats	1085
A Former Life	Charles Baudelaire	845
Flodden Field	George Wharton Edwards	509
Sonnet XVI. Translated From Boileau.	Anna Seward	350
Immortality	Ellis Parker Butler	624
The Ship Of State - A Sentiment	Oliver Wendell Holmes	450
The Song Of Los	William Blake	543
The Battle Of The Nile.^[1]	William Lisle Bowles	572
The Silent Shearer	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	937
Upon Case.	Robert Herrick	278
Fluttered Wings.	Christina Georgina Rossetti	362
I Would I Were A Careless Child.	George Gordon Byron	591
Nothing But Stones.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	286
The Triumph Of Chastity.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	413
When Philoctetes In The Lemnian Isle	William Wordsworth	489
Prologue To The University Of Oxford, Spoken By Mr Hart, At The Acting Of "The Silent Woman."	John Dryden	439
How Good Are The Poor.	Victor-Marie Hugo	391
Vision	Alfred Joyce Kilmer (Joyce)	489

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter XI	Wolcott Balestier	899
The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter XIII	Wolcott Balestier	1317
The Selector’s Daughter - Part III	Henry Lawson	806
“Dossing Out” And “Camping”	Henry Lawson	846
The Janeites	Rudyard Kipling	891
A Case For The Oracle	Henry Lawson	1559
Try And Trust; Or, Abner Holden's Bound Boy	Horatio Alger, Jr.	1084
Chester Rand; Or The New Path To Fortune.	Horatio Alger, Jr.	872
Sleepy Hollow - (Wolfert’s Roost And Miscellanies)	Washington Irving	974
The Divell's Chrystmass.	Eugene Field	657

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	James Williams	(1851 - 1911)	30	0
2.	Ernest Christopher Dowson	(2 August 1867 – 21 February 1900)	76	5
3.	William Cowper	(November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800)	307	0
4.	William Henry Davies	(3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940)	71	1
5.	Thomas Alexander Browne (Rolf Boldrewood)	(6 August 1826 – 11 March 1915)	0	1