1865 in poetry

• Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy
• Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France^[6]
• Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada^[7]
• Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland^[8]
• Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, France
• Rimes et Poësies Jersiaises, Jersey

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March – Edward Dyson (died 1931), Australian
• March 20 – Arthur Bayldon (died 1958), Australian
• March 23 – Madison Cawein (died 1914), American
• March 27 – Marion Angus (died 1946), Scots language poet
• April 9 – Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory ("Lawrence Hope"; died 1904), English
• May 2 – William Gay (died 1897), Scottish-born Australian
• May 5 – Helen Maud Merrill (died 1943), American
• May 15 – Albert Verwey (died 1937), Dutch
• May 20 – Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), English-born Australian
• June 13 – W. B. Yeats (died 1939), Irish poet and playwright
• July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923), Australian
• July 21 (or 1868?) – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (died 1924), English writer and poet
• August 16 – Mary Gilmore (died 1962), Australian poet and journalist
• September 12 – Sophus Claussen (died 1931), Danish^[9]
• September 21 – Francis Kenna (died 1932), Australian
• December 30
  • Rudyard Kipling (died 1936), Indian-born English novelist, writer and poet
  • Emily Julian McManus (died 1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator
• Also:
  • Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[10]
  • Samuel Williamson (died 1936), Australian

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 1 – Isaac Williams (born 1802), English writer, poet and clergyman
• June 10 – Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" (born 1791), American poet and writer of conduct books^[11]
• August 4 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun (born 1813), Scottish lawyer and poet
• September 5 – Hannah Flagg Gould (born 1789), American poet
• September 29 – Richard Lower (born 1782), English dialect poet
• October 15 – Andrés Bello (born 1781), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
• November 9 – George Arnold (born 1834), American writer, poet and artist
• November 18 – Joseph Déjacque (born 1821), French anarchist and poet

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