1858 in poetry

• February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine.^[1]
• Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.

• Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools^[2]
• Matthew Arnold, Merope^[2]
• William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
• Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song^[2]
• Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)^[2]
• William Johnson Cory, Ionica^[2]
• Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems^[2]
• Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted^[2]
• William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book^[2]
• Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series,^[2] (1858–61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan^[2]
• Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855)^[2]

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth^[3]
• Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)^[2]
• James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends^[3]
• William J. Grayson, The Country^[3]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays^[3]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems^[3]
• Frances Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land", November 20

• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, Canada^[4]

• Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France
• Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia

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• January 24 – Constance Naden (died 1889), English poet and philosopher
• June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
• June 16 – Isabel Richey (died 1910), American
• July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville (died 1924), American editor and writer
• August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English
• August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
• September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
• Also:
  • Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet^[5]
  • Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford

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• December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (born 1807), American^[6]

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