1865 in poetry

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

Australia

 * Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet.

Canada

 * Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter.

United Kingdom

 * Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
 * Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition
 * Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
 * Lewis Carroll, "All in the golden afternoon...", prefatory poem to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''
 * Arthur Hugh Clough, Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus (see also Poems and Prose 1869), posthumously published
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne:
 * Atalanta in Calydon
 * Chastelard

United States

 * Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems
 * George Moses Horton, Naked Genius, this year, Horton, a slave, gained his liberty, published the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moved to Philadelphia
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
 * Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867)
 * Household Poems
 * James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University
 * John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme
 * Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
 * Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations
 * Walt Whitman:
 * "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd," on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
 * Drum-Taps

Works published in other languages

 * Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France
 * Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada
 * Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March – Edward Dyson (died 1931), Australian
 * March 23 – Madison Cawein (died 1914), American
 * June 13 – William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and playwright
 * July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923), Australian
 * September 12 – Sophus Claussen (died 1931), Danish
 * September 21 – Francis Kenna (died 1932), Australian
 * December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, English novelist, writer and poet
 * Also:
 * Arthur Bayldon (died 1958), Australian
 * Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), Australian
 * Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
 * William Gay (died 1897), Australian
 * Adela Florence Nicolson Cory (pseud. "Lawrence Hope")
 * Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * Samuel Williamson (poet) (died 1936), Australian

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * June 10 – Lydia Sigourney, called the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" or, often, on the title pages of her books, "Mrs. Sigourney" (born 1791), American
 * George Arnold
 * William Edmondstone Aytoun
 * Lydia Howard Sigourney
 * Isaac Williams