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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:- 34,724 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
With Brutus In St. Jo	Eugene Field	218
To His Brother, Nicholas Herrick.	Robert Herrick	111
Translated From A Sonnet Of Ronsard	John Keats	948
Solomon And The Witch	William Butler Yeats	382
From Pent-Up Aching Rivers	Walt Whitman	813
Saint Edmond's Eve.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	61
For A Grotto	Mark Akenside	611
To ---	Joseph Rodman Drake	344
O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy	Walt Whitman	647
In An Album	Arthur Sherburne Hardy	291
Dara	James Russell Lowell	144
Sonnet CLXXXII.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	95
Snap-Dragon	D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards)	143
God's Plan Is Best	Joseph Horatio Chant	311
Beyond The Blue	Emily Pauline Johnson	248
Wallabi Joe	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	95
From The Upland To The Sea.	William Morris	103
The House Of Dust: Part 03: 04: Illicit	Conrad Potter Aiken	844
The Elected Knight (Translation)	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	129
Translations. - Knowledge. (From Schiller.)	George MacDonald	89
Solomon on the Vanity of the World, A Poem. In Three Books. - Pleasure. Book II.	Matthew Prior	504
The Turning Of The Babies In The Bed	Paul Laurence Dunbar	194
Preface: Hymns For The Christian's Day	Aurelius Clemens Prudentius	433
T Was Later When The Summer Went	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	289
Fragment Of A Mythological Hymn To Love.^[1]	Thomas Moore	100
In The Valley Of Cautertz	Alfred Lord Tennyson	761
Sweet Death	Christina Georgina Rossetti	74
To This End	William Arthur Dunkerley (John Oxenham)	106
Lighting The Fire	John Frederick Freeman	180
Fit the Seventh - The Banker's Fate	Lewis Carroll	844
False Poets And True. - To Wordsworth.	Thomas Hood	189
Disapointment. (Prose)	John Hartley	215
To The Small Celandine	William Wordsworth	260
Pioneers	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	606
Come Home	J. C. Yule, (Pamela S. Vining)	17
Only In Dreams	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	17
The Ragged Wood	William Butler Yeats	649
Evolutions Of Soldiers	D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Richards)	140
Another Song Of A Fool	William Butler Yeats	771
Fortune	Madison Julius Cawein	376
'Vulgarised'	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	457
The Dog And His Master's Dinner.	Jean de La Fontaine	146
Sonnet I	Edna St. Vincent Millay	142
Pioneers! O Pioneers!	Walt Whitman	376
Given And Taken.	Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon	130
Pain And Pleasure.	Robert Herrick	148
Horace's "Sailor And Shade."	Eugene Field	201
The Same. (The Triumph Of Chastity.)	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	95
Battle Song.	Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley	215
Lily-Bell	Louisa May Alcott	502