The contributors
Poets
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- Elizabeth Akers Allen1832–1911 · Gilded Age1 poem
- Maya Angelou1928–20146 famous poems
- Matthew Arnold1822–1888 · Victorian1 poem
- Matsuo Bashō1644–16943 poems
- William Blake1757–182749 poems
- Anne Bradstreet1612–1672 · Metaphysical1 poem
- Emily Brontë1818–1848 · Victorian14 poems
- Rupert Brooke1887–1915 · Georgian1 poem
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–18613 poems
- Robert Browning1812–18892 poems
- William Cullen Bryant1794–1878 · American Renaissance1 poem
- Charles Bukowski1920–19946 famous poems
- Robert Burns1759–179683 poems
- Lord Byron1788–18243 poems
- Lewis Carroll1832–18982 poems
- John Clare1793–18641 poem
- Billy Collinsb. 19416 famous poems
- Stephen Crane1871–1900 · Gilded Age3 poems
- E. E. Cummings1894–1962 · Modernist6 famous poems
- W. H. Davies1871–1940 · Georgian1 poem
- Emily Dickinson1830–1886373 poems
- John Donne1572–16312 poems
- Paul Laurence Dunbar1872–190610 poems
- Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882 · American Renaissance1 poem
- Eugene Field1850–1895 · Gilded Age1 poem
- Robert Frost1874–19637 poems
- Nikki Giovanni1943–20246 famous poems
- Amanda Gormanb. 19985 famous poems
- Thomas Gray1716–1771 · Augustan1 poem
- Thomas Hardy1840–1928 · Victorian2 poems
- William Ernest Henley1849–19031 poem
- Robert Herrick1591–167458 poems
- Henry Scott Holland1847–1918 · Victorian1 poem
- Thomas Hood1799–1845 · Victorian1 poem
- Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889 · Victorian2 poems
- A. E. Housman1859–1936 · Victorian2 poems
- Langston Hughes1902–1967 · Harlem Renaissance3 poems
- Leigh Hunt1784–1859 · Romantic2 poems
- Ben Jonson1572–1637 · Elizabethan2 poems
- Rupi Kaurb. 19925 famous poems
- John Keats1795–182119 poems
- Joyce Kilmer1886–1918 · Georgian1 poem
- Rudyard Kipling1865–19362 poems
- Emma Lazarus1849–1887 · Gilded Age1 poem
- Edward Lear1812–18881 poem
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–188230 poems
- Christopher Marlowe1564–15931 poem
- Andrew Marvell1621–1678 · Metaphysical1 poem
- John McCrae1872–1918 · Georgian1 poem
- Edna St. Vincent Millay1892–19503 poems
- John Milton1608–1674 · Metaphysical1 poem
- Clement Clarke Moore1779–1863 · American Renaissance1 poem
- Walter Dean Myers1937–20145 famous poems
- Mary Oliver1935–20196 famous poems
- Wilfred Owen1893–1918 · Georgian1 poem
- Sylvia Plath1932–19636 famous poems
- Edgar Allan Poe1809–184944 poems
- Sir Walter Raleighc. 1552–1618 · Elizabethan1 poem
- Christina Rossetti1830–189417 poems
- Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī)1207–12733 poems
- Carl Sandburg1878–1967 · Modernist1 poem
- Sapphoc. 630–570 BC2 poems
- William Shakespeare1564–1616154 poems
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–182286 poems
- Shel Silverstein1930–19996 famous poems
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894 · Victorian47 poems
- Jane Taylor1783–1824 · Romantic1 poem
- Sara Teasdale1884–19334 poems
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–189222 poems
- Walt Whitman1819–189244 poems
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919 · Gilded Age1 poem
- Oscar Wilde1854–1900 · Victorian1 poem
- William Wordsworth1770–18503 poems
- Valerie Worth1933–19945 famous poems
- W. B. Yeats1865–19396 poems