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…