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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
To Laura In Death. Canzone VIII.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	300
Robert Burns	James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis)	878
Jewels	Unknown	317
The Twa Brothers	Frank Sidgwick	284
Upon Rush.	Robert Herrick	311
Hickety Pickety My Black Hen	Leonard Leslie Brooke	155
Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XLII - Cathedrals, Etc.	William Wordsworth	562
Dreamland	Abram Joseph Ryan	348
The Braggart	Rudyard Kipling	648
To The Rev. F.D. Maurice	Alfred Lord Tennyson	948
Our Lady Of The Sackcloth	Rudyard Kipling	804
Picture Songs.	George MacDonald	356
But Not To Me	Sara Teasdale	896
A Few Short Years From Now.	Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	318
Upon M. William Lawes, The Rare Musician.	Robert Herrick	260
Sonnet	John Collings Squire, Sir	24
The Discovery	James Russell Lowell	280
Kissing Usury	Robert Herrick	683
For Four Guilds: I. The Glass-Stainers	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	194
To Ianthe.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	269

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
Their Lawful Occasions - Part II	Rudyard Kipling	721
The Irish Guards In The Great War - Appendix A	Rudyard Kipling	1004
The Cruise Of The Dolphin	Thomas Bailey Aldrich	661
Sleepy Hollow - (Wolfert’s Roost And Miscellanies)	Washington Irving	903
The Fringes Of The Fleet - The Practice Of The Art	Rudyard Kipling	741
Sea Warfare - Tales Of “The Trade” - III - Ravages And Repairs	Rudyard Kipling	728
Marjorie's Three Gifts	Louisa May Alcott	878
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.	Herman Melville	52
The Purgatory of St. Patrick by Pedro Calderon de la Barca	Denis Florence MacCarthy	43
The Blindness Of One-Eyed Bogan	Henry Lawson	827

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Bret Harte (Francis)	(August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902)	121	70
2.	R. K. Munkittrick	()	1	0
3.	William Henry Drummond	(April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907)	72	0
4.	Paul Bewsher	(1894 - 1966)	23	0
5.	Gerard Manley Hopkins	(28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889)	71	0