Portal:Anonymous texts
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The texts on this page are likely to have individual authors, but we don't know who they are. An important part of this category will be medieval tales and legends. Dates of the works here tend to be speculative. See also Wikisource:Authors-Anonymous.
- Alysoun
- The Ballad of Chevy Chase
- Battle of Grendon - 29 August 1876
- The Battle of Hampton Roads - from Vanity Fair March 29, 1862
- The Battle of Ross na Ríg - Irish saga, circa 1160
- The Battle of the Boyne - Irish saga, circa 1575
- Belfast Brigade
- Beowulf
- Blow northerne wynd! - 14th century Middle English poem
- The Book of Dede Korkut - The most famous epic of the Turkmens
- Bridge of Arta
- Columbia's Dismissed Professors - from The Literary Digest October 20, 1917
- Cross of the South - Traditional Australian folksong
- The Cuckoo Song - 13th/14th century lyric
- The Dragon of Wantley - 17th century
- The Dream of the Rood - 10th century
- Early One Morning - traditional Folk Song
- El Coloquio de los Doce - early Spanish colonial manuscript, 1524
- Elefantes - traditional latin Children's song
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Fairy Queen - late 17th century libretto
- Finnegan's Wake - A mock-Irish street ballad thought to have been written in the 1850s
- Freedom Poem
- Greek Creation Myth
- The High History of the Holy Graal
- Hymn of the pearl - from the Acts of Thomas
- Ich am of Irlaunde - A Middle English poem written circa 1300.
- The Intoxication of the Ulstermen - 11th/12th century Irish saga
- The Jail of Clonmel - 18th century Irish poem
- Jesus Christ Is Risen Today — A 14th century Latin hymn, translated in 1708 (later expanded into Christ the Lord Is Risen Today)
- The Laxdaela Saga
- Lenten ys come with love to toune - A Middle English poem written circa 1300.
- Lines from Love Letters - anonymous poem, 14th century, macaronic in Middle English, Middle French, and Latin
- The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring - anonymous poem, 16th century
- May We Knit on Sunday - published in the Literary Digest, Oct. 20, 1917
- The Plowman's Tale - 14th century poem
- The Raggle Taggle Gypsy
- Salic Law (507-511 AC) Partial English translation
- Sir Patrick Spens
- The Story of the Volsungs
- Sumer is icumen in A Middle English poem written circa 1226
- This Worldes Joie
- Three hymns to the Virgin - anonymous 14th century English poems
- The Urantia Book (1955)
The collective texts and anthologies that were previously listed here may now be found at Wikisource:Collective works.