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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
The Sonnets XIX - Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws	William Shakespeare	879
Sorry	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	203
Geographical Knowledge	Thomas Hardy	391
On Entering The Sea	Nizar Qabbani	1013
The Moon	Oliver Herford	455
October, 1803	William Wordsworth	615
To His Book.	Robert Herrick	267
Amour 25	Michael Drayton	416
To Lord Viscount Strangford.	Thomas Moore	241
Jujuba.	Richard Hunter	488
To Love.	Robert Herrick	280
Death And Daphne	Jonathan Swift	126
Two In The Campagna	Robert Browning	695
The Hypnotist	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	676
The Swan And The Cook.	Jean de La Fontaine	362
You Smiled, You Spoke, And I Believed	Walter Savage Landor	765
The Three Drinkers.	Robert von Ranke Graves	30
The Frozen Stream	Richard Le Gallienne	338
To A Bookseller	Thomas William Hodgson Crosland	49
On A Very Old Glass At Market-Hill	Jonathan Swift	117

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
A Secret of Telegraph Hill	Bret Harte (Francis)	854
Arthur Koestler	George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	836
Tennessee’s Partner	Bret Harte (Francis)	771
The Light That Failed - Chapter IX	Rudyard Kipling	755
Friendly Brook	Rudyard Kipling	963
Happy Dispatches - Chapter XIV. Captain Towse, V.C.	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	855
The Cat	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	815
Why Tommy isn't a Deacon.	John Hartley	602
Letter To Mr. B--. "West Point, 1831 (Introduction To Poems.--1831.)	Edgar Allan Poe	785
The Pit And The Pendulum	Edgar Allan Poe	955

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	James Lister Cuthbertson	(8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910)	10	0
2.	George Pope Morris	(1802 - 1864)	144	2
3.	Abram Joseph Ryan	(August 15, 1839 - April 22, 1886)	132	0
4.	Charles G. Leland	(August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903)	54	0
5.	James Stephens	(February 9, 1882 – December 26, 1950)	101	7