- The Tear, a poem by Lydia Huntley Sigourney
- The Tear, a poem by Lord Byron
- The tear, an unattributed poem
- Tears, a poem by Osbert Sitwell
- Tears, a poem by Edward Thomas
- Tears, by Fyodor Tyutchev
- Tears, a poem by Walt Whitman
- The Tears, a poem by John Cowper Powys
- "Tear," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)