Anonymous lyrics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400)
Charles D'Orleans (1391-1465)
Anonymous lyrics of the fifteenth century
Robert Henryson (ca. 1430-ca. 1506)
William Dunbar (ca. 1460-ca. 1525)
King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
Anonymous Elizabethan Jacobean Poems
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (ca. 1517-1547)
Alexander Scott (ca. 1525-1584)
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
George Gascoigne (ca. 1535-1577)
Barnabe Googe (1540-1594)
George Turberville (ca. 1540-ca. 1619)
Chidiock Tichborne (d. 1586)
Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh] (ca. 1552-1618)
Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599)
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Alexander Montgomerie (1556?-1615?)
Robert Greene (1560-1592)
Robert Southwell (ca. 1561-1595)
Samuel Daniel (ca. 1562-1619)
Mark Alexander Boyd (1563-1601)
Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Edmund Bolton (ca. 1575-ca. 1633)
Francis Davison (ca. 1575-ca. 1619)
John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
George Herbert (1593-1633)
James Shirley (1596-1666)
Thomas Carew (1598?-1639?)
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
Thomas Traherne (1637-1674)
Edward Taylor (ca. 1642-1729)
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
James Thomson (1700-1748)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
William Collins (1721-1759)
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
William Cowper (1731-1800)
Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
George Crabbe (1754-1832)
William Blake (1757-1827)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1834-1896)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
Hugh MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve ) (1892- )
Archibald MacLeish (1892- )
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
William Plomer (1903-1973)
Richard Eberhart (1904- )
Robert Penn Warren (1905- )
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Charles Olson (1910-1970)
John Berryman (1914-1972)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
William Stafford (1914- )
Gwendolyn Brooks (1915- )
Elizabeth Jennings (1926- )
Charles Tomlinson (1927- )
Imamu Amiri Barak (LeRoi Jones) (1934- )
Michael Ondaatje (1943- )