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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
Forsaken.	Nora Pembroke (Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall)	106
Kaspar’s Song In ‘Varda’	Rudyard Kipling	661
Napoleon III	Mary Hannay Foott	603
The Evening Hours.	John Clare	258
Britannia Rediviva	John Dryden	276
To Julia. In Allusion To Some Illiberal Criticisms.	Thomas Moore	86
The Phantom Fleet	Alfred Noyes	112
The Old Cabin	Paul Laurence Dunbar	153
Paradisum Amissam, Lib. II	John Milton	696
Au Revoir.	Charles Sangster	70
Address For The Opening Of The Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, December 3, 1873	Oliver Wendell Holmes	202
On Himself.	Robert Herrick	99
Waiting For Death.	Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni	121
From The 'Antigone'	William Butler Yeats	457
Lines Written Upon A Hill, On Leaving The Country.	John Carr (Sir)	265
Rewards	Unknown	76
To A Poet	Richard Le Gallienne	162
Horace, Ode I. Lib. III. A Fragment.	Thomas Moore	101
When The Storm Was Proudest	George MacDonald	75
Faith	George MacDonald	126
Abstinence.	Robert Herrick	228
In Praise of Songs that Die	Vachel Lindsay	156
The Ballad Of God-Makers	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	825
Hour-Glass And Bible	William Lisle Bowles	323
Meditations - His	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	14
Low Tide At St. Andrews	Emily Pauline Johnson	232
The Father's Worshippers	George MacDonald	115
Upon Cupid.	Robert Herrick	112
A Song: When June Is Past, The Fading Rose	Thomas Carew	355
Brother Jonathan's Lament For Sister Caroline	Oliver Wendell Holmes	206
No Message	Mary Hannay Foott	588
To Jack	Henry Lawson	489
Noel.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	162
Genius.	Friedrich Schiller	75
Sonnet Upon A Swedish Cottage, Written On The Road, Within A Few Miles Of Stockholm.	John Carr (Sir)	279
Saturday On The Farm.	Edwin C. Ranck	72
American Boys, Hello!	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	7
Good Luck Not Lasting.	Robert Herrick	138
The Prisoner	John Charles McNeill	128
The Wood-Cutter's Night Song.	John Clare	268
Hound Voice	William Butler Yeats	399
The Disconcerted Tenor	William Schwenck Gilbert	196
Hyperion, A Vision : Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem	John Keats	458
A Strange Wild Song	Lewis Carroll	1070
At Putney	R. C. Lehmann	146
Why Spring Fell Flat	Edward Dyson	549
Stanzas To Augusta.^[n]^[77]	George Gordon Byron	382
Ione	Paul Laurence Dunbar	202
Under The Rose	Madison Julius Cawein	232
Francie.	Rose Hawthorne Lathrop	182