The contributors

Poets

The people behind the poems — short, readable lives, no homework required.

• 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