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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
On A Perfumed Lady	Robert Herrick	563
Apocalypse.	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	259
The Queen Of Hearts	Christina Georgina Rossetti	49
To A Friend.	Joseph Rodman Drake	328
How Little Red Riding Hood Came To Be Eaten	Guy Wetmore Carryl	367
Had We Not Met.	Freeman Edwin Miller	112
L'Envol.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	163
To The Students Of The Workers' And Peasants' Faculty	Bertolt Brecht	654
A Session With Uncle Sidney - II - Uncle Brightens Up	James Whitcomb Riley	59
Listening	John Frederick Freeman	192
The Circle Of Nature.	Friedrich Schiller	50
Ode IX. To Curio	Mark Akenside	724
Hauntings	Rupert Brooke	287
Christmas at Church.	Hattie Howard	182
Spring's Nosegay	John Clare	174
Pearls.	Madison Julius Cawein	255
On Christmas Eve (Serenade)	Thomas Hardy	166
Helen At The Loom	George Parsons Lathrop	135
Sonnet. On Receiving A Gift.	Thomas Hood	165
The Lord Of The Isles: Canto II	Walter Scott (Sir)	390

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Tale Of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle	Helen Beatrix Potter	81
A Hot Day At Spats’	Edward Dyson	922
Weland’s Sword	Rudyard Kipling	294
The Murders In The Rue Morgue	Edgar Allan Poe	562
Inside The Whale - Part III	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	560
The Hand Of Ethelberta	Thomas Hardy	181
The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard	Arthur Conan Doyle	309
King Lear	William Shakespeare	918
The Wish House	Rudyard Kipling	202
Driven From Home Or Carl Crawford's Experience	Horatio Alger, Jr.	287

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Victor-Marie Hugo	(February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885)	187	0
2.	Charles G. Leland	(August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903)	53	0
3.	Ernest Christopher Dowson	(2 August 1867 – 21 February 1900)	76	5
4.	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	(28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)	347	0
5.	Rose Hawthorne Lathrop	(May 20, 1851–July 9, 1926)	57	0