Poems from the Public Domain

thepoetmiranda’s readings from the public domain (in descending order by date posted)

“Bury Me in a Free Land” by Francis E.W. Harper

“Not They Who Soar” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

“In the Heart of a Rose” by George Marion McClellan

“A Valentine” by Priscilla Jane Thompson

“The Radical” by Waring Cuney

“Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas” by Gwendolyn Bennett

“As I Grew Older” by Langston Hughes

“The Witch” by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“[Dear March—Come In—]” by Emily Dickinson

“Why We Oppose Pockets for Women” by Alice Duer Miller

“A Song On Grief” by Anne Finch

“Reveille” by Lola Ridge

“On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792” by Anna Barbauld

“[plants don’t talk, people say]” by Rosalia de Castro (translated by Doris Earnshaw)

“El Beso” by Angelina Weld Grimké

“Escape” by Rufino Blanco Fombona

“The Pedler” by Charlotte Mew