1903 in poetry

This article covers 1903 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published in English

Gün Gencer, General Poems: Australia facing the dawn and its result, published by the author, printed in Sydney by R.T. Kelly
Allen Gilfillen, A Day, Melbourne: Melville and Mullen, drama and poetry
Lilian Wooster Greaves, Poems by Lilian, Newtown, New South Wales: G. Baker Walker
Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward?, Australia
Banjo Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most widely known bush ballad

Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, edited by Myra Reynolds
W. E. Henley, A Song of Speed
Rudyard Kipling, The Five Nations
Thomas MacDonagh, April and May, Irish poet published in Ireland
John Masefield, Ballads
Alfred Noyes, The Flower of Old Japan
'Æ', The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new
Thomas Traherne, The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
* In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"
* Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake

Yone Noguchi, From the Eastern Sea
N. W. Pai, The Angel of Misfortune: A Fairy Tale, A Metrical Romance in Ten Books, Bombay: W. N. Mulgaokar and Co.India, Indian poetry in English
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
* In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"
* Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

April 3 – Peter Huchel, German poet
May 25 – Ewart Milne, Irish poet and radical
May 30 – Countee Cullen, African-American poet
June 13 – Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
June 17 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
September 9 – Atul Chandra Hazarika, poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society; Indian, writing in Assamese
October 5 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠八穂, Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
November 6 – Carl Rakosi, German-born American poet
November 15:
* Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子, Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines
* Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 Japanese Shōwa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
December 4 – A. L. Rowse, English poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
December 10 – William Plomer, South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor
December 31:
* Fumiko Hayashi 林芙美子, Japanese novelist, writer and poet
* Lorine Niedecker the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets
Also:
* Raymond Herbert McGrath, Australian poet
* Rafael Méndez Dorich, Peruvian poet

March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland, American humorist, folklorist and poet
May 8 – David Mills, Canadian politician and poet
May 22 – Misao Fujimura, 藤村操, Japanese philosophy student and poet, largely remembered for the poem he carved into a tree before committing suicide over an unrequited love; made famous by Japanese newspapers after his death
July 11 – W. E. Henley, English poet, critic and editor
September 3 – Joseph Skipsey "The Pitman Poet", English collier and poet
October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutarō 尾崎徳太郎, Japanese novelist, essayist and haiku poet
December – Isa Craig, Scottish-born poet