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Public Domain Poetry

Welcome to Public Domain Poetry. Here you will find the poetry that is now in the public domain, from past literary greats of historic times. 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 give your thoughts 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 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.

50 Random Poems.

Title	Author	Views
Rudiger.	Robert Southey	49
The Screen In The Lumber Room.	Henry Austin Dobson	288
To M-----	George Gordon Byron	200
Cheerfulness In Charity; Or, The Sweet Sacrifice.	Robert Herrick	89
Sonnet CCXXIV.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	80
Translations. - Lieder. (From Heine.)	George MacDonald	48
The Union	Algernon Charles Swinburne	255
At La Chaudeau (Translation)	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	112
On Leaving N - St - D.	George Gordon Byron	302
The Judgement Of Venus	Matthew Prior	361
Morning Hymn.	Susanna Moodie	105
Survivors	Siegfried Loraine Sassoon	45
Apollo	Matthew Arnold	477
Translations. - Simeon The Patriarch's Song Of Praise. (Luther's Song-Book.)	George MacDonald	77
The Call Of The Wild	Robert William Service	55
Broken Tryst	Richard Le Gallienne	144
Even So	Victor James Daley	436
The Burial.^[1]	Thomas Osborne Davis	240
Light	John Milton	679
Ecclesiastical Sonnets - Part III. - XVII - Places Of Worship	William Wordsworth	359
On Himself	Robert Herrick	90
Rosa's Grave.	Thomas Gent	192
Franciscus De Verulamio Sic Cogitavit	James Russell Lowell	94
Babby Burds.	John Hartley	207
Epitaph On Holy Willie.	Robert Burns	244
The Marble Faun.	Victor-Marie Hugo	128
The Monument.	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	157
Character Of The Happy Warrior	William Wordsworth	376
Pictures From Appledore	James Russell Lowell	86
Phantasmagoria	D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards)	125
A Flower Garden - At Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire.	William Wordsworth	414
Australia's Peril (The Warning)	Henry Lawson	680
Interlude - Callaghan's Hotel	Henry Lawson	1094
To An Oak At Newstead. ^[1]	George Gordon Byron	365
Dante	Oliver Herford	190
Sonnet LXXII. Written In The Rainy Summer Of 1789.	Anna Seward	62
There's Naethin Like The Honest Nappy!	Robert Burns	194
Sonnet.	Thomas Hood	151
A Botticelli Madonna I The Wondering Angels	Ethel Allen Murphy	134
Oedipus King of Thebes	Sophocles	54
Rhyme For A Child Viewing A Naked Venus In A Painting Of 'The Judgement Of Paris'	Robert Browning	814
The Awakening	Enid Derham	1043
On The Slain Collegians	Herman Melville	83
Song	Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley	201
The Tresses	Thomas Hardy	90
The May Night.	Emma Lazarus	110
Fame.	Alfred Castner King	148
No Peace But A Right Peace	William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)	67
Punishment	George MacDonald	84
Sonnet XX. On Reading A Description Of Pope's Gardens At Twickenham.	Anna Seward	52