# 1903 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Works published in English
### Australia

* 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

### Canada

* Bliss Carman, From the Green Book of Bards
* E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", Canadian Born
* Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Rose

### United Kingdom

* Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights
* Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (died 1720), 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' (George William Russell), The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new
* Thomas Traherne (died 1674), 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 (criticism)

### United States

* Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay
* Willa Cather, Shapes of Clay
* H. L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse
* Josephine Preston Peabody, The Singing Leaves
* George Sterling, The Testimony of the Suns
* J. T. Trowbridge, Poetical Works

### Other in English

* 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 (criticism)

## Works published in other languages

* Konstantin Balmont, Будем как Солнце (Budem kak Solntse), Russia
* Paul Claudel, Art poétique, criticism; France
* Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian, Gujarati-language
* Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Anciennetés, France

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* April 3 – Peter Huchel (died 1981), German poet
* May 25 – Ewart Milne (died 1987), Irish poet and radical
* May 30 – Countee Cullen (died 1946), African-American poet
* June 13 – Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar (died 1943), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
* June 17 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (died 1953), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
* September 9 – Atul Chandra Hazarika (died 1986), 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 (died 1982), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
* November 6 – Carl Rakosi, American poet
* November 15:
** Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (died 1984), 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 (a woman)
** Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (died 1957) Japanese Shōwa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
* December 4 – A. L. Rowse (died 1997), English poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
* December 10 – William Plomer (died 1973), South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor
* December 31:
** Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1904 (sources disagree); died 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
** Lorine Niedecker (died 1970) the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets
* Also:
** Raymond Herbert McGrath (died 1977), Australian poet
** Rafael Méndez Dorich (died 1973), Peruvian poet

## Deaths

* March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland, 78, American humorist, folklorist and poet
* May 8 – David Mills (born 1831), Canadian politician and poet
* May 22 – Misao Fujimura, 藤村操 (born 1886), 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 (see picture at right)
* July 11 – W. E. Henley, 52, English poet, critic and editor
* October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutarō 尾崎 徳太郎 (born 1868), Japanese novelist, essayist and haiku poet
* December – Isa Craig (born 1831), Scottish-born poet