1910 in poetry

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year in Rewards and Fairies

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

Canada

 * The Rev. James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Poems
 * Frederick George Scott, also known as F.G. Scott, Collected Poems
 * Tom MacInnes, In Amber Lands, (mostly a reprint of Lonesome Bar and Other Poems 1909).
 * "Yukon Bill" [Kate Simpson Hayes], Derby Days in the Yukon.

United Kingdom

 * Hilaire Belloc, Verses
 * Frances Cornford, Poems
 * W.H. Davies, Farewell to Posey, and Other Pieces
 * James Elroy Flecker, Thirty-Six Poems
 * Ford Maddox Ford, Songs from London
 * Wilfrid Gibson, Daily Bread
 * Lawrence Hope, editor, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
 * Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies, short stories and poems, including If—
 * John Masefield, Ballads and Poems
 * W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
 * The Green Helmet and other Poems
 * Poems: Second Series

United States
 Baseball's Sad Lexicon by Franklin Pierce Adams These are the saddest of possible words: "Tinker to Evers to Chance." Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds, Tinker and Evers and Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double – Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble: "Tinker to Evers to Chance."
 * Charles Follen Adams, Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems
 * Franklin Pierce Adams, Baseball's Sad Lexicon, also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain; a popular baseball poem
 * Robert Underwood Johnson, Saint-Gaudens, an Ode
 * John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
 * Ezra Pound:
 * Provenca
 * The Spirit of Romance
 * Edward Arlington Robinson, The Town Down the River, Charles Scribner's Sons
 * George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, criticism

Other in English

 * Joseph Furtado, Lays of Old Goa, Indian poetry in English
 * Lawrence Hope, editor, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
 * Henry Lawson, The Skyline Riders and other Verses, Australia
 * W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
 * The Green Helmet and other Poems
 * Poems: Second Series

France

 * Paul Claudel, Cinq Grandes Odes, France
 * Jean Cocteau, Le prince frivole
 * Alphonse Métérié, Carnets
 * Charles Péguy, Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc
 * Saint-John Perse, Eleges

Other languages

 * Delmira Agustini, Cantos de la mañana, Uruguay
 * Gurajada Appa Rao, Mutyala Saralu, Indian poetry, Telugu-language (surname: Gurajada)
 * Takuboku Ishikawa, Ichiakuno suna ("A Handful of Sand"), Japanese (surname: Ishikawa)

Births

 * January 11 – Nikos Kavadias (died 1975), Greek
 * March 21 – Elizabeth Riddell (died 1998), Australian
 * August 14 – Nathan Alterman (died 1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator
 * October 30 – Miguel Hernández (died 1942), Spanish poet
 * November 14 – Norman MacCaig (died 1996) Scottish poet
 * November 20 – Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray; died 1985), African American civil-rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher, and ordained Episcopal priest
 * December 19 – Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
 * December 27 – Charles Olson (died 1970), American poet
 * December 30 – Paul Bowles (died 1999), American poet, author, composer, translator
 * Also:
 * Frank Eyre (died 1988), Australian
 * R. D. Murphy
 * Mairtin O Direain (died 1988), Irish

Deaths

 * January 8 – James Cuthbertson (born 1851), Australian
 * January 29 – Arthur Munby, British diarist, poet, and lawyer
 * October 17:
 * William Vaughn Moody (born 1869), American dramatist and poet
 * Julia Ward Howe, 91, American poet best known as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
 * Also:
 * Augusta Bristol
 * Gilbert Brooke (Singapore)
 * Anna Waring
 * Thomas E. Spencer (born 1845), Australian