This study discusses the subject of nostalgia in the poem of Maḥmūd Sāmī al-Bārūdī, who is considered as the pioneer of modern Egyptian poetry by many critics of Arabic literature. AlBārūdī, who had a special interest and a natural talent for the poem, imitated the styles of the ʿAbbāsid period poets. He argued that Arabic poetry which began to weaken after the period of ʿAbbāsids, had to be renewed in terms of form and content. Different from the old understanding, he initiated the neoclassical movement in the poem, prioritising the meaning rather than literary arts in the poem and generating the poems subjecting emotions, thoughts and problems of the society. Al-Bārūdī, who was called “the master of pen and sword” as he was a soldier in addition to being a poet, was exiled to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1882 by Hidiv Tevfîk since he participated in the ʿUrābī revolt. Amongst different types of poems written by the poet such as depiction, ghazal, heroism, glory, elegy, asceticism and aphorism, his most important works are the nostalgic poems written during his 17 years of exile away from his homeland and beloved ones. The nostalgia is felt intensively in his poems in which al- Bārūdī wrote his longing for his country, family, friends, past and beloved.