- The Cuckoo, a traditional English folk ballad (The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies)
- The Cuckoo, a poem by William Lisle Bowles (The bee is humming in the sun)
- The Cuckoo, a poem by Margaret Casson (Now the sun is in the west)
- The Cuckoo, a poem, part of the forgery called Manuscript of Dvůr Králové
- The Cuckoo, a poem by John Logan (Hail, beauteous stranger of the grove)
- To the Cuckoo, a poem by William Wordsworth (Not the whole warbling grove in concert heard)
- To the Cuckoo, a poem by William Wordsworth (O Blithe New-comer! I have heard)