Read our collection of classic and contemporary poems inspired by the moon and space travel.

Read Mary Ruefle’s iconic essay “Poetry and the Moon.”

Classic Poems About the Moon

Amores (III)” by E. E. Cummings
there is a / moon sole / in the blue night…

Above the Dock” by T. E. Hulme
Above the quiet dock in mid night…

The Crescent Moon” by Amy Lowell
Slipping softly through the sky…

Lunar Baedeker” by Mina Loy
A silver Lucifer…

To the Moon” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Art thou pale for weariness…

Lunar Paraphrase” by Wallace Stevens
The moon is the mother of pathos and pity…

The Moon” by Robert Louis Stevenson
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall...

Dusk in Autumn” by Sara Teasdale
The moon is like a scimitar…

Will You Come?” by Edward Thomas
Will you come?

Evening Song” by Jean Toomer
Full moon rising on the waters of my heart…

A Solar Eclipse” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In that great journey of the stars through space…

Full Moon

Contemporary Poems About the Moon

City Moon” by Francisco Aragón
Perfect disc of moon, huge…

The Old Woman & the Moon” by Michael Bazzett
She was an old woman who fished alone…

Testimony” by Joseph Fasano
If tonight the moon should arrive like a lost guide…

Moon for Our Daughters” by Annie Finch
Moon that is linking our daughters’…

from “Blue Dark” by Deborah Landau
the moon might rise and it might not…

The Wish Book” by Alex Lemon
The moon croons ghost…

The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.” by Donika Kelly
I am taken with the hot animal…

[No strawberry moon]” by Emmy Pérez
No strawberry moon for me, tonight. No…

I’m Over the Moon” by Brenda Shaughnessy
I don’t like what the moon is supposed to do…

Music from Childhood” by John Yau
You grow up hearing two languages…