| Author | Number of Poems |
|---|
| A. E. Housman | 105 |
| Abraham Cowley | 5 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 3 |
| Abram Joseph Ryan | 1 |
| Adelaide Crapsey | 6 |
| Adolph Huebsch | 1 |
| Alan Seeger | 2 |
| Albert Bigelow Paine | 1 |
| Alex Rogers | 2 |
| Alexander Pope | 6 |
| Alexander Posey | 7 |
| Alfred Kreymborg | 9 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | 17 |
| Alfred Noyes | 1 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 3 |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson | 3 |
| Alice Meynell | 1 |
| Aline Murray Kilmer | 1 |
| Alter Abelson | 1 |
| Amy Levy | 1 |
| Amy Lowell | 89 |
| Andrew Marvell | 7 |
| Angelina Weld Grimké | 2 |
| Anna Bunston De Bary | 1 |
| Anna Hempstead Branch | 1 |
| Anne Bradstreet | 4 |
| Anne Spencer | 5 |
| Anonymous | 9 |
| Anthony Raftery | 1 |
| Aphra Behn | 2 |
| Archibald MacLeish | 4 |
| Arthur Davison Ficke | 2 |
| Arthur Gorges | 1 |
| Arthur Guiterman | 1 |
| Arthur Peterson | 1 |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1 |
| Bayard Taylor | 1 |
| Ben Jonson | 10 |
| Benjamin Brawley | 2 |
| Benjamin Franklin | 3 |
| Bryher | 1 |
| Cale Young Rice | 3 |
| Carl Sandburg | 440 |
| Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | 4 |
| Caroline Gilman | 1 |
| Carolyn Wells | 1 |
| Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna | 1 |
| Charles Bertram Johnson | 2 |
| Charles Reznikoff | 3 |
| Charles Schwob | 1 |
| Charles Wharton Stork | 1 |
| Charlotte Mew | 1 |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 25 |
| Charlotte Smith | 2 |
| Christina Rossetti | 20 |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1 |
| Christopher Smart | 1 |
| Clark Ashton Smith | 1 |
| Claude McKay | 79 |
| Clement Clarke Moore | 2 |
| Conrad Aiken | 3 |
| D. H. Lawrence | 67 |
| Daniel Webster Davis | 2 |
| Dante Alighieri | 3 |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1 |
| David Rosenthal | 1 |
| Djuna Barnes | 2 |
| Dorothy Parker | 1 |
| E. E. Cummings | 2 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 18 |
| Edgar Guest | 8 |
| Edgar Lee Masters | 248 |
| Edith Franklin Wyatt | 1 |
| Edith Matilda Thomas | 2 |
| Edith Sitwell | 2 |
| Edith Wharton | 1 |
| Edmund Spenser | 3 |
| Edmund Waller | 1 |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay | 72 |
| Edward Fitzgerald | 1 |
| Edward Lear | 6 |
| Edward Rowland Sill | 1 |
| Edward Smyth Jones | 1 |
| Edward Thomas | 4 |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | 6 |
| Edwin Markham | 1 |
| Effie Waller Smith | 1 |
| Elias Lieberman | 1 |
| Elinor Wylie | 2 |
| Eliza Cook | 10 |
| Eliza Lee Follen | 2 |
| Elizabeth Akers Allen | 1 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 60 |
| Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | 66 |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts | 1 |
| Ella Higginson | 6 |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 6 |
| Emily Brontë | 6 |
| Emily Chubbuck Judson | 1 |
| Emily Dickinson | 455 |
| Emma Lazarus | 18 |
| Ernest Crosby | 1 |
| Ernest Dowson | 1 |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1 |
| Ernest Lawrence Thayer | 1 |
| Eugene Field | 4 |
| Eunice Tietjens | 1 |
| Ezra Pound | 12 |
| F. S. Flint | 5 |
| Fenton Johnson | 5 |
| Florence Ripley Mastin | 3 |
| Forceythe Willson | 1 |
| Ford Madox Ford | 2 |
| Frances Anne Kemble | 1 |
| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | 5 |
| Francesco Petrarch | 2 |
| Francis Scott Key | 1 |
| Frank Dempster Sherman | 1 |
| Frederick Edward Weatherly | 1 |
| Gaius Valerius Catullus | 3 |
| Gelett Burgess | 2 |
| Genevieve Taggard | 1 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 8 |
| George Crabbe | 1 |
| George Eliot | 1 |
| George Gordon Byron | 134 |
| George Herbert | 5 |
| George Macdonald | 1 |
| George Marion McClellan | 5 |
| George Meredith | 2 |
| George Moses Horton | 7 |
| George Parsons Lathrop | 2 |
| George Reginald Margetson | 1 |
| George Santayana | 1 |
| George Wither | 1 |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson | 12 |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | 12 |
| Gertrude Stein | 110 |
| Giles Fletcher | 1 |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1 |
| Gordon Bottomley | 1 |
| Grace Hazard Conkling | 1 |
| Grantland Rice | 2 |
| H. D. | 55 |
| Hafez | 2 |
| Hamlin Garland | 1 |
| Harriet Maxwell Converse | 1 |
| Hart Crane | 2 |
| Hartley Coleridge | 1 |
| Hazel Hall | 4 |
| Helen Hay Whitney | 2 |
| Helen Hoyt | 3 |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | 6 |
| Helen Santmyer | 1 |
| Henrietta Cordelia Ray | 1 |
| Henry Charles Beeching | 1 |
| Henry Cuyler Bunner | 1 |
| Henry David Thoreau | 7 |
| Henry Howard | 3 |
| Henry Thomas Liddell | 1 |
| Henry Vaughan | 2 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 95 |
| Herman Melville | 6 |
| Homer | 2 |
| Horace | 2 |
| Hortense King Flexner | 1 |
| Hughes Mearns | 1 |
| Hugo Ball | 1 |
| Isaac McLellan | 2 |
| Isaac Rosenberg | 1 |
| Isaac Watts | 1 |
| Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory | 1 |
| Jalal al-Din Rumi | 2 |
| James D. Corrothers | 7 |
| James Edwin Campbell | 6 |
| James Joyce | 40 |
| James McIntyre | 1 |
| James Monroe Whitfield | 1 |
| James Russell Lowell | 5 |
| James Stephens | 1 |
| James Thomson | 1 |
| James Weldon Johnson | 13 |
| James Whitcomb Riley | 2 |
| Jane Johnston Schoolcraft | 1 |
| Jane Taylor | 2 |
| Janet Little | 1 |
| Janet Loxley Lewis | 1 |
| Jessie E. Sampter | 7 |
| Jessie Fauset | 5 |
| Jessie Redmon Fauset | 2 |
| Joel Benton | 1 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 4 |
| John Banister Tabb | 1 |
| John Boyle O'Reilly | 2 |
| John Clare | 5 |
| John Donne | 20 |
| John Dos Passos | 1 |
| John Dryden | 6 |
| John Gay | 1 |
| John Gould Fletcher | 4 |
| John Gray | 1 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | 8 |
| John Keats | 24 |
| John Kendrick Bangs | 1 |
| John Masefield | 1 |
| John McCrae | 1 |
| John Milton | 58 |
| John Rollin Ridge | 9 |
| John Skelton | 1 |
| John Stagg | 1 |
| John Wesley Holloway | 4 |
| John Wilmot | 1 |
| Jonathan Swift | 1 |
| Jones Very | 1 |
| Joseph Addison | 1 |
| Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. | 6 |
| Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. | 1 |
| Joyce Kilmer | 2 |
| Judith Ish-Kishor | 1 |
| Julia Ward Howe | 1 |
| Jupiter Hammon | 3 |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1 |
| Laura Cornelius Kellogg | 1 |
| Laurence Alma-Tadema | 1 |
| Laurence Binyon | 1 |
| Leigh Hunt | 3 |
| Leonora Speyer | 2 |
| Leslie Pinckney Hill | 4 |
| Lewis Carroll | 4 |
| Li Po | 1 |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese | 6 |
| Lola Ridge | 11 |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | 3 |
| Lord Brooke Fulke Greville | 1 |
| Louise Bogan | 1 |
| Louise Imogen Guiney | 1 |
| Louise Morgan Sill | 1 |
| Lucian B. Watkins | 3 |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson | 1 |
| Lydia Maria Child | 2 |
| Léonie Adams | 2 |
| Madison Julius Cawein | 3 |
| Margaret Cavendish | 1 |
| Margaret Deland | 1 |
| Margaret Thomson Janvier | 1 |
| Margaret Widdemer | 4 |
| Maria White Lowell | 1 |
| Marianne Moore | 13 |
| Marion Hartog | 1 |
| Mark Twain | 1 |
| Marsden Hartley | 1 |
| Mary Carolyn Davies | 1 |
| Mary Colborne-Veel | 1 |
| Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | 3 |
| Mary Robinson | 1 |
| Mary Sidney Herbert | 1 |
| Matthew Arnold | 5 |
| Maxwell Bodenheim | 1 |
| Michael Drayton | 1 |
| Mina Loy | 2 |
| Mother Goose | 1 |
| Natalie Clifford Barney | 1 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 2 |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux | 1 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | 3 |
| Olivia Ward Bush-Banks | 2 |
| Oscar Wilde | 63 |
| Otto Leland Bohanan | 2 |
| Ovid | 2 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 29 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 15 |
| Percy MacKaye | 1 |
| Philip Freneau | 3 |
| Philip James Bailey | 1 |
| Philip M. Raskin | 5 |
| Philip Pain | 1 |
| Phillis Wheatley | 40 |
| Pindar | 1 |
| Queen Elizabeth I | 1 |
| R. Nathaniel Dett | 1 |
| Rabindranath Tagore | 2 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 171 |
| Ray G. Dandridge | 5 |
| Richard Aldington | 2 |
| Richard Crashaw | 1 |
| Richard Harris Barham | 2 |
| Richard Lovelace | 2 |
| Robert Bridges | 3 |
| Robert Browning | 12 |
| Robert Burns | 557 |
| Robert Frost | 123 |
| Robert Graves | 46 |
| Robert Herrick | 1247 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 129 |
| Robert McAlmon | 1 |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1 |
| Robert W. Service | 2 |
| Robinson Jeffers | 6 |
| Roscoe C. Jamison | 1 |
| Rubén Darío | 1 |
| Rudyard Kipling | 418 |
| Rupert Brooke | 82 |
| Sadakichi Hartmann | 1 |
| Sam Foss | 1 |
| Samuel Daniel | 1 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 13 |
| Sappho | 1 |
| Sara Coleridge | 1 |
| Sara Teasdale | 18 |
| Sarah Josepha Hale | 1 |
| Sherwood Anderson | 3 |
| Shido | 1 |
| Sidney Lanier | 2 |
| Siegfried Sassoon | 1 |
| Sir Henry Wotton | 1 |
| Sir John Davies | 1 |
| Sir John Suckling | 5 |
| Sir Philip Sidney | 2 |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | 1 |
| Sir Walter Scott | 3 |
| Stephen Crane | 9 |
| Stephen Vincent Benét | 2 |
| T. E. Hulme | 5 |
| T. S. Eliot | 17 |
| Theodore Henry Shackelford | 1 |
| Thomas Campion | 1 |
| Thomas Carew | 1 |
| Thomas Gray | 2 |
| Thomas Hardy | 26 |
| Thomas Hood | 3 |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes | 1 |
| Thomas Nashe | 1 |
| Thomas Shadwell | 2 |
| Thomas Traherne | 1 |
| Thomas Wyatt | 2 |
| Théophile Gautier | 1 |
| Trumbull Stickney | 5 |
| Vachel Lindsay | 4 |
| Virgil | 2 |
| W. B. Yeats | 143 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | 1 |
| Wallace Stevens | 7 |
| Walt Whitman | 372 |
| Walter Savage Landor | 2 |
| Walter de la Mare | 1 |
| Waverley Turner Carmichael | 2 |
| Wilfred Owen | 7 |
| Willa Cather | 2 |
| William Alexander Percy | 1 |
| William Allingham | 1 |
| William Blake | 24 |
| William Brooks | 1 |
| William Carlos Williams | 23 |
| William Cartwright | 3 |
| William Collins | 1 |
| William Cowper | 10 |
| William Cullen Bryant | 9 |
| William Dunbar | 1 |
| William Ernest Henley | 3 |
| William F. Kirk | 34 |
| William H.A. Moore | 2 |
| William Henry Venable | 1 |
| William Knox | 1 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 2 |
| William Morris | 2 |
| William Ralph Emerson | 1 |
| William Saphier | 1 |
| William Shakespeare | 156 |
| William Stanley Braithwaite | 9 |
| William Wordsworth | 18 |
| Winifred M. Letts | 2 |
| Witter Bynner | 3 |
| Yone Noguchi | 3 |
| Yvor Winters | 1 |