Prelude

Prelude may refer to:

• Prelude, a poem by Richard Aldington
• Prelude, a poem by Richard Watson Gilder ("O white and midnight sky! O starry bath!")
• Prelude, a poem by Richard Watson Gilder ("The night was dark, tho' sometimes a faint star")
• Prelude to Departmental Ditties, by Rudyard Kipling
• Prelude, versions of a poem by Ján Kollár
• Prelude, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Prelude, a poem by Banjo Paterson
• Prelude, a poem by František Sekanina
• Prelude, a poem by Robert W. Service
• Prelude, a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Prelude, a poem by George Wither
• The Prelude, by William Wordsworth
• Preludes, a poem by T. S. Eliot
• Preludes, a work by Alice Meynell