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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:- 34,724 Poems and 2,052 Stories/Essays (with 10,708 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
Preface To Poems Of Cheer	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	13
Follow Your Saint	Thomas Campion	366
Seen By The Waits	Thomas Hardy	207
Beauty	Theodosia Garrison	214
My Life Is Full Of Weary Days	Alfred Lord Tennyson	453
How Mary Grew	John Greenleaf Whittier	388
The Battle Of Sempach	Walter Scott (Sir)	439
In May	Madison Julius Cawein	346
Nursery Rhyme. LIII. Tales.	Unknown	11
Philosopher's Garden	William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)	118
November	Sara Teasdale	611
Reproach	D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards)	175
Prologue to The Two Noble Kinsmen	Algernon Charles Swinburne	546
The City Of Sleep	Rudyard Kipling	374
Algernon Charles Swinburne.	Francis William Lauderdale Adams	18
The Knight Of Toggenburg. A Ballad.	Friedrich Schiller	102
Sonnet.	John Carr (Sir)	404
The To-Be-Forgotten	Thomas Hardy	155
Lovely Mary Donnelly	William Allingham	675
Bad May Be Better.	Robert Herrick	178

20 Random Stories Etc.

Title	Author	Reads
A Dream Of Armageddon	H. G. Wells	888
From Sea To Sea - Volume 2 - Among the Railway Folk - Chapter I - A Railway Settlement	Rudyard Kipling	312
From Sea To Sea - Volume 1 - From Sea To Sea - XX	Rudyard Kipling	352
Peter Parley's Tales About America And Australia	Samuel Griswold Goodrich	252
The Copernican Convoy.	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	156
Naboth	Rudyard Kipling	402
The Missing Link - Chapter II - A Family Matter	Edward Dyson	393
Two Gallants	James Joyce	448
The Mystery Of Marie Roget	Edgar Allan Poe	553
Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	331
The Story Of The Four Little Children Who Went Round The World.	Edward Lear	245
The Man Who Could Work Miracles	H. G. Wells	620
The Young Bank Messenger	Horatio Alger, Jr.	292
Waiting for the Ship - A Fort Point Idyl	Bret Harte (Francis)	809
Independence - Rectorial Address, St. Andrews: October 1923	Rudyard Kipling	348
Rest Harrow A Comedy Of Resolution	Maurice Henry Hewlett	277
The Landscape Garden	Edgar Allan Poe	599
Sitting In Judgment	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	425
Kim - Chapter 4	Rudyard Kipling	528
Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	1222

10 Random Authors.

	Author	Period	# Poems	# Stories
1.	Thomas Gent	(1780 - ?)	118	0
2.	Paul Laurence Dunbar	(June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906)	422	0
3.	Bret Harte (Francis)	(August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902)	120	70
4.	John Milton Hay	(October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905)	76	3
5.	Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch	(21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944)	53	21
6.	James Whitcomb Riley	(October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916)	553	12
7.	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	(May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936)	104	34
8.	William Henry Giles Kingston	(28 February 1814 - 5 August 1880)	21	0
9.	Robert Lee Frost	(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)	168	0
10.	Robert Herrick	(Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674)	1467	0