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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
The shepherd's brow	Gerard Manley Hopkins	168
Sonnet LXXXVII. To A Young Lady, Addressed By A Gentleman Celebrated For His Poetic Talents.	Anna Seward	59
Epistle To The Bishop Of Landaff.	William Hayley	210
At The “J.C.”	Barcroft Boake	552
Before The Temple	Madison Julius Cawein	197
The Closed Door	Duncan Campbell Scott	66
The Unknown God	Henry Lawson	986
Sultan	Nizar Qabbani	657
The Sonnets LXXXI - Or I shall live your epitaph to make	William Shakespeare	631
The Favor Of The Muses.	Friedrich Schiller	47
Ars Longa - A Song Of Pilgrimage	Adam Lindsay Gordon	516
Goody Blake And Harry Gill	William Wordsworth	272
On An Old Sepulchral Bas-Relief.	Giacomo Leopardi	111
Above The Clouds.	Jean Ingelow	140
O Long The Way	Morris Rosenfeld	55
Love In Twilight	Stephen Vincent Benet	286
The Runes Of Weland's Sword	Rudyard Kipling	532
The Figure-Head	Herman Melville	90
In Town	Edward Dyson	517
Asolando - Dedication	Robert Browning	876
The Louse-Hunters	Aldous Leonard Huxley	184
Breadth And Depth.	Friedrich Schiller	50
The Goal.	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	155
To Laura In Death. Sonnet LVII.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	62
Our Mat	Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	575
Abu Midjan.	Archibald Lampman	177
The North Shore	Madison Julius Cawein	282
The Parson's Son	Robert William Service	43
In Hilly-Wood.	John Clare	254
Tristram of Lyonesse - II - The Queen’s Pleasance	Algernon Charles Swinburne	440
Retaliation	Oliver Goldsmith	225
Coortin Days.	John Hartley	196
Poems and Ballads - Dedication	Algernon Charles Swinburne	270
The Mysterious Cat	Vachel Lindsay	111
Invitation	Edward Powys Mathers (As Translator)	72
The River Maiden	Victor James Daley	696
Fire-Flowers	Emily Pauline Johnson	196
A Scene On The Susquehana	Thomas Campbell	950
Caledonia.	Robert Burns	326
When I Think On The Happy Days.	Robert Burns	177
Friends	William Butler Yeats	448
Sonnet CLXXVI.	Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	77
Thinkin' Back	James Whitcomb Riley	44
How A Fair One No Hope To His Highness Accorded	Guy Wetmore Carryl	375
More Nonsense Limerick 90	Edward Lear	133
Song Of The Spinning Wheel	William Wordsworth	401
Song III	Sara Teasdale	353
English Hills	John Frederick Freeman	211
Still, Though The One I Sing	Walt Whitman	532
In Possum Land	Henry Lawson	1482