This article covers 1262 in poetry.

Works published

• Sitot no m'es fort gaya la sazos by Bonifaci VI de Castellana, written at Montpellier, an attack on Charles of Anjou
• Quascus planh le sieu damnatge, a planh of Raimon Gaucelm de Bezers for a bourgeois of Béziers named Guiraut de Linhan and the only such poem surviving for a middle-class figure
• L'autr' ier trobei la bergeira d'antan, a pastorela by Guiraut Riquier

Births

• Guan Daosheng (died 1319), Chinese poet and painter during the Yuan Dynasty
• U Tak (died 1342), Korea