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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:- 38,258 Poems and 2,232 Stories/Essays (with 16,651 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
Barbara Frietchie	John Greenleaf Whittier	1104
The Sixth Epistle Of The First Book Of Horace.	Alexander Pope	386
Houses	Alfred Joyce Kilmer (Joyce)	544
Miss Kilmansegg And Her Precious Leg.^[1]	Thomas Hood	384
Virtue and Vice	James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis)	1058
The Ways Are Green	William Ernest Henley	399
In Memoriam, A. H.	Maurice Baring	70
Shameful Death	William Morris	365
The Mermaid	Alfred Lord Tennyson	1022
London Types - VI. 'Liza	William Ernest Henley	432
We'll Go No More A-Roving	William Ernest Henley	443
A Year Song.	George MacDonald	370
Night And Morning	Edward Powys Mathers (As Translator)	340
From Milton: And did those feet	William Blake	625
Grit.	Edwin C. Ranck	394
A Sweet Lullaby	Nicholas Breton	110
At Eleusis.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	273
Nursery Rhyme. DLVI. Natural History.	Unknown	274
An Easter Hymn	John Charles McNeill	364
Farewell To The Muse	Walter Scott (Sir)	901

10 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
The Butcher's Bills.	George MacDonald	567
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. VI	Thomas Moore	112
The Gold-Stealers - A Story Of Waddy - Chapter XI	Edward Dyson	973
The Old Man	James Whitcomb Riley	866
The Defendant	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	908
Flip: A California Romance	Bret Harte (Francis)	1135
Black Joe	Henry Lawson	914
A Visit Of Condolence	Henry Lawson	933
Steelman’s Pupil	Henry Lawson	929
A Tryst At An Ancient Earth Work	Thomas Hardy	646

5 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Sara Teasdale	(August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933)	324	0
2.	Alfred Lichtenstein	(23rd August 1889 - 25th September 1914)	86	0
3.	John Masefield	(1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967)	40	0
4.	Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell	(1847 - 1922)	58	0
5.	William F. Kirk	(?)	33	0