1723 in poetry

• July – A new edition of Bernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees is presented as a public nuisance by the Grand Jury of Middlesex, England, to the Court of King's Bench. Mandeville escapes prosecution.{{cite book|first=Bernard|last=Mandeville|editor=Hundert, E. J.|title=The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVvBn5_yvdgC&pg=PR10|year=1997|publisher=Hackett Publishing|location=Indianapolis|isbn=0-87220-374-3|page=10}}

• Samuel Keimer, Elegy on the Much Lamented Death of [. . .] Aquila Rose, a verse memorial memorable for having been set in type by Benjamin Franklin, then an employee of Keimer, a printer in PhiladelphiaBurt, Daniel S., [https://books.google.com/books?id=VQ0fgo5v6e0C The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times], Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, {{ISBN|978-0-618-16821-7}}, retrieved via Google Books
• Francis Knapp, attributed, Gloria Britannorum; or, The British WorthiesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
• Edward Taylor, A Funerall Teare [. . .] an elegy on Increase Mather

• Henry Baker, An Invocation of Health: a poem{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Alfred: An epick poem
• Ambrose Philips, Ode on the Death of William, Earl Cowper
• Matthew Prior:
• Down-Hall
• The Turtle and the Sparrow
• Allan Ramsay, The Fair Assembly
• Ned Ward, Nuptial Dialogues and Debates, 3rd ed.

• Heyat Mahmud, Jangnama; Bengali{{cite Banglapedia|article=Heyat Mamud|author=Wakil Ahmed}}
• Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Ode et Cantates, first published in London; FrenchPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 27 – Johann Andreas Cramer (died 1788), German poet, writer and theologian
• September 30 – William Hutton (died 1815), English local historian and poet
• November 3 – Samuel Davies (died 1761), English Colonial American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College, author and poet
• November 30 – William Livingston (died 1790), English Colonial American public official, poet and writer

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Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 13 – Sarah Fyge Egerton (born 1668), English poet
• February 26 – Thomas d'Urfey (born 1653), English writer of plays, songs, poetry and jokes
• March 13 – René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (born 1650), French Protestant poet and historian
• March 15 – Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695){{cite book|last=Grun|first=Bernard|title=The Timetables of History|edition=3rd|year=1991|orig-year=1946|page=328}}
• June 8 – Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (born 1644), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
• September 23 – Jacques Basnage (born 1653), French Protestant poet, linguist and preacher

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