Overview of the events of 1681 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1681 in poetry
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime
We would sit down and think which way
To walk and pass our long love's day.
— First lines from Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, first published (posthumously) this year
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- May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (born 1600), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
- August 12 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (born 1617), English Royalist soldier, astrologer and poet
- October 7 – Nikolaes Heinsius (born 1620), Dutch poet and scholar
- December – Charles Cotin (born 1604), French abbé, philosopher and poet
- Magha 9, 1603 (Saka era) – Samarth Ramdas (born 1608), Marathi saint and religious poet