| Author | Period | Poems | Stories |
| A. Hoatson | () | 2 | 0 |
| A. R. Ammons | (February 18, 1926 February 25, 2001) | 31 | 0 |
| Abijah M. Ide | (1825 1873) | 3 | 0 |
| Ada Langworthy Collier | (1843 - ?) | 6 | 0 |
| Adam Lindsay Gordon | (October 19, 1833 24 June 1870) | 71 | 0 |
| Alexander Pope | (21 May 1688 30 May 1744) | 82 | 0 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | (August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892) | 327 | 0 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | (April 5, 1837 April 10, 1909) | 464 | 7 |
| Ambrose Bierce | (June 24, 1842 1914) | 16 | 0 |
| Anna Akhmatova | (June 23, 1889 March 5, 1966) | 32 | 0 |
| Anne Bradstreet | (1612 September 16, 1672) | 40 | 0 |
| Anne Bronte | (January 17, 1820 May 28, 1849) | 69 | 2 |
| Aphra Behn | (July 10, 1640 April 16, 1689) | 14 | 0 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | (22 May 1859 7 July 1930) | 60 | 103 |
| Arthur Hugh Clough | (January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861) | 132 | 2 |
| Arthur Hugh Clough | (January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861) | 18 | 0 |
| Arthur Sherburne Hardy | (1847-1930) | 12 | 0 |
| Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) | (February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941) | 227 | 58 |
| Barcroft Boake | (March 26, 1866 ? May 10, 1892) | 36 | 3 |
| Ben Jonson | (c. 11 June 1572 6 August 1637) | 92 | 0 |
| Bertolt Brecht | (February 10, 1898 August 14, 1956) | 32 | 0 |
| Bliss Carman (William) | (April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929) | 122 | 0 |
| Bret Harte (Francis) | (August 25, 1837 May 6, 1902) | 120 | 70 |
| Charles Baudelaire | (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) | 236 | 2 |
| Charles Churchill | (February, 1731 - November 4, 1764) | 24 | 0 |
| Charles G. Leland | (August 15, 1824 March 20, 1903) | 53 | 0 |
| Charles Henry Bennett | (18291867) | 2 | 2 |
| Charlotte Bronte | (April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855) | 25 | 4 |
| Clara Doty Bates | (1838 - 1895) | 32 | 0 |
| Conrad Potter Aiken | (August 5, 1889 August 17, 1973) | 100 | 2 |
| Dante Alighieri | (May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321) | 100 | 1 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | (January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849) | 84 | 100 |
| Edward Dyson | (1865-1931) | 95 | 98 |
| Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney | (1801-1881) | 43 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Anderson | () | 2 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | (March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861) | 115 | 0 |
| Elizabeth Jennings | (July 18, 1926 October 26, 2001) | 11 | 0 |
| Ellis Parker Butler | (December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937) | 74 | 9 |
| Emily Bronte | (July 30, 1818 December 19, 1848) | 52 | 1 |
| Emily Elizabeth Dickinson | (December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886) | 448 | 0 |
| Enid Derham | (March 24, 1882 November 13, 1941) | 8 | 0 |
| Erasmus Darwin | (12 December 173118 April 1802) | 8 | 0 |
| Ernest Christopher Dowson | (2 August 1867 21 February 1900) | 76 | 5 |
| Eugene Field | (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) | 324 | 67 |
| Fanny Fire-Fly | () | 1 | 0 |
| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | (24 September 1825 - 22 February 1911) | 46 | 2 |
| Francis Kenna | (1865 - 1932) | 1 | 0 |
| George Colman | (October 21, 1762October 17, 1836) | 8 | 0 |
| George Gordon Byron | (22 January 1788 19 April 1824) | 189 | 12 |
| George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) | 8 | 64 |
| George W. Doneghy | () | 64 | 0 |
| George Wharton Edwards | (1859 January 18, 1950) | 26 | 0 |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | (May 29, 1874 June 14, 1936) | 69 | 34 |
| Guy Wetmore Carryl | (March 4, 1873 April 1, 1904) | 41 | 0 |
| H. G. Wells | (September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946) | 0 | 57 |
| H. H. C. C. | () | 1 | 0 |
| Hanford Lennox Gordon | (1836-1920) | 75 | 0 |
| Heinrich Hoffmann | (1809-1894) | 21 | 0 |
| Henry Austin Dobson | (January 18, 1840 September 2, 1921) | 101 | 2 |
| Henry Kendall | (April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882) | 215 | 0 |
| Henry Lawson | (17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922) | 475 | 164 |
| Hilaire Belloc | (27 July 1870 16 July 1953) | 61 | 3 |
| Horatio Alger, Jr. | (January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899) | 65 | 52 |
| Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory | (15 March 1852 22 May 1932) | 36 | 0 |
| J. L. Duff | () | 1 | 0 |
| James Elroy Flecker | (November 5, 1884 - January 3, 1915) | 43 | 0 |
| James Hebblethwaite | (22 September 1857 13 September 1921) | 4 | 0 |
| James Henry Leigh Hunt | (October 19, 1784 August 28, 1859) | 24 | 0 |
| James Joyce | (2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941) | 51 | 19 |
| James Lister Cuthbertson | (8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910) | 10 | 0 |
| James Thomson | (11 September 1700 27 August 1748) | 10 | 0 |
| James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis) | (November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882) | 46 | 0 |
| Jean C. Archer. | () | 2 | 0 |
| Jennings Carmichael | (24 February 1868 9 February 1904) | 2 | 0 |
| Joaquin Miller | (September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913) | 19 | 0 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | (28 August 1749 22 March 1832) | 347 | 0 |
| John Campbell | (6 August 1845 2 May 1914) | 48 | 0 |
| John Carr (Sir) | (1772 - 1832) | 112 | 1 |
| John Clare | (13 July 1793 20 May 1864) | 384 | 0 |
| John Dryden | (( 9 August 1631 1 May 1700 )) | 126 | 0 |
| John Frederick Freeman | (January 29, 1880 September 23, 1929) | 197 | 0 |
| John Gower | (1330 October 1408) | 9 | 0 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | (December 17, 1807 September 7, 1892) | 483 | 0 |
| John Hartley | (1839-1915) | 299 | 60 |
| John Keats | (31 October 1795 23 February 1821) | 147 | 0 |
| John Le Gay Brereton | (2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933) | 67 | 0 |
| John Masefield | (1 June 1878 12 May 1967) | 40 | 0 |
| John McCrae | (November 30, 1872 January 28, 1918) | 29 | 0 |
| John Milton | (December 9, 1608 November 8, 1674) | 131 | 1 |
| John Milton Hay | (October 8, 1838 July 1, 1905) | 76 | 3 |
| John Milton Hayes | (1884 - 1940) | 7 | 0 |
| John Wilmot | (April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680) | 39 | 0 |
| Joseph Addison | (May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719) | 19 | 0 |
| Joseph Burrows | () | 1 | 0 |
| Joseph Horatio Chant | (August 19, 1837 - June 8, 1928) | 86 | 0 |
| Joseph Rodman Drake | (August 17, 1795September 21, 1820) | 19 | 0 |
| Juliana Horatia Ewing | (1841 1885) | 51 | 0 |
| Kate Greenaway | (17 March 1846 6 November 1901) | 40 | 0 |
| Katharine Lee Bates | (August 12, 1859 March 28, 1929) | 18 | 0 |
| Lennox Amott | () | 16 | 0 |
| Lewis Carroll | (January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898) | 74 | 3 |
| Louis Shreve Osborne | () | 1 | 0 |
| Louisa May Alcott | (November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888) | 75 | 25 |
| M. Forrest | (1872 - 1935) | 2 | 0 |
| Madison Julius Cawein | (23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914) | 959 | 0 |
| Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke | (24 April 18462 August 1881) | 1 | 18 |
| Marietta Holley | (1836-1926) | 68 | 2 |
| Mark Akenside | (November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770) | 73 | 0 |
| Marriott Edgar | (October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951) | 35 | 0 |
| Mary Hannay Foott | (26 September 1846 12 October 1918) | 30 | 0 |
| Matthew Arnold | (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) | 151 | 3 |
| Matthew Prior | (July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721) | 189 | 0 |
| Maurice Henry Hewlett | (1861-1923) | 35 | 14 |
| Michael Drayton | (1563 December 23, 1631) | 228 | 0 |
| Michael Earls | (1875 - 1937) | 45 | 0 |
| Michael Fairless | (1869 - 1901) | 14 | 0 |
| Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass | (1842 - ?) | 35 | 0 |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis | (January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867) | 12 | 1 |
| Nizar Qabbani | (21 March 1923 30 April 1998) | 38 | 0 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | (10 November 1730? 4 April 1774) | 40 | 0 |
| Oliver Herford | (1863 - 1935) | 129 | 0 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) | 331 | 6 |
| Patrick Bronte | (17 March 1777 - 7 June 1861) | 12 | 0 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | (June 27, 1872 February 9, 1906) | 422 | 0 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | (May 25, 1803 April 27, 1882) | 226 | 0 |
| Richard Harris Barham | (December 6, 1788June 17, 1845) | 23 | 0 |
| Robert Browning | (May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889) | 214 | 6 |
| Robert Burns | (25 January 1759 21 July 1796) | 502 | 1 |
| Robert Herrick | (Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674) | 1467 | 0 |
| Robert Lee Frost | (March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963) | 168 | 0 |
| Robert Lowell | (March 1, 1917September 12, 1977) | 16 | 0 |
| Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) | (6 August 1826 11 March 1915) | 0 | 1 |
| Rudyard Kipling | (December 30, 1865 January 18, 1936) | 641 | 528 |
| Rupert Brooke | (August 3, 1887 - 23 April 1915) | 97 | 1 |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich | (August 19, 1793 - May 9, 1860) | 38 | 1 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | (October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834) | 53 | 0 |
| Sara Teasdale | (August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933) | 324 | 0 |
| Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley | (1866-1913) | 51 | 0 |
| Stephen Vincent Benet | (July 22, 1898 March 13, 1943) | 33 | 1 |
| Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) | (January 29, 1835 - April 9, 1905) | 68 | 0 |
| Theodosia Garrison | (1874 - 1944) | 61 | 0 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | (11 November 1836 19 March 1907) | 36 | 17 |
| Thomas Campbell | (July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844) | 34 | 0 |
| Thomas Campion | (February 12, 1567 March 1, 1620) | 13 | 0 |
| Thomas Carew | (1595 March 22, 1640) | 37 | 0 |
| Thomas Edward Brown | (May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897) | 24 | 0 |
| Thomas Gent | (1780 - ?) | 118 | 0 |
| Thomas Hardy | (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) | 663 | 43 |
| Thomas Hood | (23 May 1799 3 May 1845) | 6 | 0 |
| Thomas Osborne Davis | (October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845) | 4 | 0 |
| Thomas Osborne Davis | (October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845) | 35 | 0 |
| Thomas William Heney | (5 November 1862 19 August 192) | 4 | 0 |
| Thomas William Hodgson Crosland | (1865 - 1924) | 13 | 1 |
| Toru Dutt | (March 4, 1856 - August 30, 1877) | 20 | 0 |
| Victor James Daley | (5 September 1858 29 December 1905) | 93 | 0 |
| Virginia Carter Castleman | (1864 - 1937) | 1 | 0 |
| Walt Whitman | (May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892) | 338 | 0 |
| Walter Crane | (15 August 1845 14 March 1915) | 150 | 1 |
| Walter R. Cassels | (4 September 1826 - 10 June 1907) | 49 | 0 |
| Walter Savage Landor | (January 30, 1775 September 17, 1864) | 103 | 0 |
| Walter Scott (Sir) | (15 August 1771 21 September 1832) | 157 | 7 |
| Washington Gladden | (February 11, 1836 - July 2, 1918) | 3 | 0 |
| Washington Irving | (April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859) | 52 | 27 |
| Will Carleton | (October 21, 1845 December 18, 1912) | 22 | 0 |
| William Allingham | (March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889) | 48 | 0 |
| William Barnes | (22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886) | 29 | 0 |
| William Blake | (November 28, 1757 August 12, 1827) | 140 | 0 |
| William Butler Yeats | (June 13, 1865 January 28, 1939) | 384 | 0 |
| William Chatterton Dix | (June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898) | 1 | 0 |
| William Collins | (25 December 1721 12 June 1759) | 11 | 0 |
| William Cowper | (November 26, 1731 April 25, 1800) | 307 | 0 |
| William Cullen Bryant | (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) | 132 | 3 |
| William Ernest Henley | (August 23, 1849 July 11, 1903) | 154 | 5 |
| William Hayley | (November 9, 1745 - November 12, 1820) | 36 | 1 |
| William Henry Drummond | (April 13, 1854 April 6, 1907) | 72 | 0 |
| William Lisle Bowles | (September 24, 1762 - April 7, 1850) | 143 | 0 |
| William Schwenck Gilbert | (1836 - 1911) | 172 | 1 |
| William Shakespeare | (baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616) | 159 | 24 |
| William Wordsworth | (April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850) | 969 | 0 |
| Wolcott Balestier | (December 13, 1861 - 1891) | 0 | 21 |
| Yehuda Amichai | (1924 - September 22, 2000) | 44 | 0 |
