Poems About the Moon
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…
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…
More Classic Moon Poems
“Home-Coming” by Léonie Adams
When I stepped homeward to my hill…
“Crepuscule” by E. E. Cummings
I will wade out…
“Waiting—Afield at Dusk” by Robert Frost
What things for dream there are when spectre-like…
“The Difference” by Thomas Hardy
Sinking down by the gate I discern the thin moon…
“A Prophecy: To George Keats in America” by John Keats
’Tis the witching time of night…
“Upon the Heights” by Yone Noguchi
And victor of life and silence…
“Where is the Poet” by Yone Nguchi
The inky-garmented, truth-dead Cloud…
“A Dream of T’ien-mu Mountain” by Li Po
Speak of the Blessed Islands men from the Ocean’s brim…
“In my craft or sullen art” by Dylan Thomas
In my craft or sullen art…
“Beehive” by Jean Toomer
Within this black hive to-night…
“Song of Myself, 35” by Walt Whitman
Would you hear of an old-time sea fight?
“Impressions” by Oscar Wilde
The sea is flecked with bars of grey…
“Endymion” by Oscar Wilde
The apple trees are hung with gold…
Additional Poems Featuring the Moon
Poems Featuring the Moon Landing
“Riddle” by Jericho Brown
We do not recognize the body…
“Another Night at Sea Level” by Meg Day
On the third day, I wrote to you…
“Let Me Disappear” by Ray Gonzalez
According to scientists, astronauts get taller…
Poems About Space Travel
“Watch the Film You Paid to See” by Todd Colby
In my bedroom my weight is three times more…
“Mars Poetica” by Wyn Cooper
Imagine you’re on Mars, looking at earth…
“XXXV [A man saw a ball of gold in the sky]” by Stephen Crane
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky…
“Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)” by Yona Harvey
Nobody straightens their hair anymore…
“[American Journal]” by Robert Hayden
here among them…
“Skylab” by Rolf Jacobsen
We’ve come so far, thought the astronaut…
“Stardate 8809.2” by Adrian Matejka
If there was ever a chance to go to outer space…
“Space Station” by Tom Sleigh
My mother and I and the dog…