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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:- 38,859 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
TitleAuthorReads
Prologue To "Oedipus."John Dryden1354
The WaterHenry Lawson23008
On Paddy's Character Of The "Intelligencer."[1] 1729 (Verses Written During Lord Carteret's Administration Of Ireland)Jonathan Swift1035
Isles And RivuletsPaul Cameron Brown871
In The StormMadison Julius Cawein1449
For Bessie, Seated By Me In The GardenThomas Moult1076
ThrushesSiegfried Loraine Sassoon985
Tristram of Lyonesse - VII - The Wife’s VigilAlgernon Charles Swinburne1676
The Lad's Love by the GateFay Inchfawn1396
To Primroses Filled With Morning DewRobert Herrick1658
ExistenceElla Wheeler Wilcox1453
Where The Children Used To PlayJames Whitcomb Riley1222
DaphneJonathan Swift1484
Minnetonka[BY]Hanford Lennox Gordon1230
On The Death Of A Lap-Dog, Named Echo.Robert Burns1565
The Present Generation.Friedrich Schiller1260
The Divine Comedy by Dante: The Vision of Hell, Or The Inferno: Canto XXIIDante Alighieri1660
Sally Simpkin's Lament; Or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe.Thomas Hood1354
A Country Burial.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson2714
Love's Flame Doth Feed On Age.Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni1218
The Eleusinian Festival.Friedrich Schiller1259
The Poet's DeathJohn Clare1610
The RansomCharles Baudelaire1706
On A Similar Occasion. For The Year 1789.William Cowper1322
Alone.Lennox Amott2434
Two Sonnets To MaryJohn Clare1487
MemoryJoseph Horatio Chant1465
Two Years LaterWilliam Butler Yeats3324
Hatred Of Sin.William Cowper1399
Wind And RainArthur Macy1256
Rhymes On The Road. Extract V. Padua.Thomas Moore1343
After A Lecture On KeatsOliver Wendell Holmes1490
To Eleonora Duse ISara Teasdale2200
Announcement Of A New Thalaba. Addressed To Robert Southey, Esq.Thomas Moore1465
Nursery Rhyme. LIX. Tales.Unknown1146
Curly LocksJames Whitcomb Riley1407
A Thief's NotebookPaul Cameron Brown1184
DepartureThomas Hardy1642
The House Of MossMadison Julius Cawein1312
The Belated SwallowMary Hannay Foott1602
Nature's Hymn To The DeityJohn Clare1594
The Seven SagesWilliam Butler Yeats2855
How Thomas A Maid From A Dragon ReleasedGuy Wetmore Carryl1495
The ParasolHelen Leah Reed830
A Wonderful Feat.Edwin C. Ranck1700
Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 - X. - The Source Of The DanubeWilliam Wordsworth1772
My Spectre Around Me Night And DayWilliam Blake1658
The Beam of Devotion.George Pope Morris1051
MistletoeWalter De La Mare1810
The Passionate Shepherd.Nicholas Breton992