| Author | Period | # Reads |
| 1: Rudyard Kipling | December 30, 1865 January 18, 1936 | 27218 |
| 2: William Butler Yeats | June 13, 1865 January 28, 1939 | 26866 |
| 3: Henry Lawson | 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 | 26337 |
| 4: Robert Herrick | Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674 | 24675 |
| 5: William Wordsworth | April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850 | 21858 |
| 6: Sara Teasdale | August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933 | 21724 |
| 7: Joseph Addison | May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719 | 21671 |
| 8: Walt Whitman | May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892 | 21393 |
| 9: Edgar Allan Poe | January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849 | 21155 |
| 10: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) | February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941 | 21035 |
| 11: Robert Lee Frost | March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963 | 20978 |
| 12: Arthur Hugh Clough | January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861 | 20897 |
| 13: Edward Dyson | 1865-1931 | 20646 |
| 14: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861 | 20591 |
| 15: Alfred Lord Tennyson | August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892 | 20502 |
| 16: Walter Scott (Sir) | 15 August 1771 21 September 1832 | 19645 |
| 17: A. R. Ammons | February 18, 1926 February 25, 2001 | 19395 |
| 18: John Le Gay Brereton | 2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933 | 18614 |
| 19: Anna Akhmatova | June 23, 1889 March 5, 1966 | 18172 |
| 20: Robert Browning | May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889 | 18163 |
| 21: Matthew Arnold | 24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 | 17780 |
| 22: Thomas Campbell | July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844 | 17687 |
| 23: Algernon Charles Swinburne | April 5, 1837 April 10, 1909 | 17431 |
| 24: Alexander Pope | 21 May 1688 30 May 1744 | 17283 |
| 25: Jennings Carmichael | 24 February 1868 9 February 1904 | 17282 |
| 26: John Greenleaf Whittier | December 17, 1807 September 7, 1892 | 16724 |
| 27: Mark Akenside | November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770 | 16598 |
| 28: Yehuda Amichai | 1924 - September 22, 2000 | 16560 |
| 29: Lewis Carroll | January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898 | 16503 |
| 30: Conrad Potter Aiken | August 5, 1889 August 17, 1973 | 16406 |
| 31: John Keats | 31 October 1795 23 February 1821 | 16332 |
| 32: Bertolt Brecht | February 10, 1898 August 14, 1956 | 16091 |
| 33: William Allingham | March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889 | 15754 |
| 34: Madison Julius Cawein | 23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914 | 15493 |
| 35: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | 25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950 | 15464 |
| 36: Washington Irving | April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859 | 15395 |
| 37: Aphra Behn | July 10, 1640 April 16, 1689 | 15237 |
| 38: H. G. Wells | September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946 | 14981 |
| 39: William Shakespeare | baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616 | 14773 |
| 40: Elizabeth Jennings | July 18, 1926 October 26, 2001 | 14706 |
| 41: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson | December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886 | 14594 |
| 42: Ambrose Bierce | June 24, 1842 1914 | 14590 |
| 43: Nizar Qabbani | 21 March 1923 30 April 1998 | 14441 |
| 44: Matthew Prior | July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721 | 14429 |
| 45: John Masefield | 1 June 1878 12 May 1967 | 14397 |
| 46: William Barnes | 22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886 | 14302 |
| 47: James Joyce | 2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 | 14297 |
| 48: William Henry Drummond | April 13, 1854 April 6, 1907 | 14228 |
| 49: James Henry Leigh Hunt | October 19, 1784 August 28, 1859 | 14024 |
| 50: Thomas Hardy | 2 June 1840 11 January 1928 | 13969 |
| 51: Bret Harte (Francis) | August 25, 1836 May 6, 1902 | 13837 |
| 52: Ben Jonson | c. 11 June 1572 6 August 1637 | 13799 |
| 53: Louisa May Alcott | November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888 | 13749 |
| 54: Richard Harris Barham | December 6, 1788June 17, 1845 | 13713 |
| 55: Charles Baudelaire | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867 | 13704 |
| 56: Barcroft Boake | March 26, 1866 ? May 10, 1892 | 13663 |
| 57: Walter Savage Landor | January 30, 1775 September 17, 1864 | 13659 |
| 58: Wolcott Balestier | December 13, 1861 - 1891 | 13647 |
| 59: Marriott Edgar | October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951 | 13593 |
| 60: William Collins | 25 December 1721 12 June 1759 | 13508 |
| 61: Nathaniel Parker Willis | January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867 | 13482 |
| 62: John McCrae | November 30, 1872 January 28, 1918 | 13241 |
| 63: Abijah M. Ide | 1825 1873 | 13227 |
| 64: Adam Lindsay Gordon | October 19, 1833 24 June 1870 | 13124 |
| 65: John Wilmot | April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680 | 12960 |
| 66: Robert Lowell | March 1, 1917September 12, 1977 | 12937 |
| 67: H. H. C. C. | | 12579 |
| 68: Victor James Daley | 5 September 1858 29 December 1905 | 12443 |
| 69: Joseph Burrows | | 12420 |
| 70: Thomas Alexander Browne (Rolf Boldrewood) | 6 August 1826 11 March 1915 | 12378 |
| 71: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834 | 12324 |
| 72: John Milton | December 9, 1608 November 8, 1674 | 12306 |
| 73: Joaquin Miller | September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913 | 12297 |
| 74: William Blake | November 28, 1757 August 12, 1827 | 12255 |
| 75: Thomas Osborne Davis | October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845 | 12054 |
| 76: John Clare | 13 July 1793 20 May 1864 | 11975 |
| 77: Horatio Alger, Jr. | January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899 | 11938 |
| 78: Henry Kendall | April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882 | 11894 |
| 79: George Gordon Byron | 22 January 1788 19 April 1824 | 11660 |
| 80: Francis Kenna | 1865 - 1932 | 11626 |
| 81: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke | 24 April 18462 August 1881 | 11606 |
| 82: Robert Burns | 25 January 1759 21 July 1796 | 11597 |
| 83: Louis Shreve Osborne | | 11443 |
| 84: Mary Hannay Foott | 26 September 1846 12 October 1918 | 11406 |
| 85: James Lister Cuthbertson | 8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910 | 11355 |
| 86: William Chatterton Dix | June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898 | 11084 |
| 87: Arthur Conan Doyle | 22 May 1859 7 July 1930 | 10930 |
| 88: Gilbert Keith Chesterton | May 29, 1874 June 14, 1936 | 10864 |
| 89: George MacDonald | 10 December 1824 18 September 1905 | 10836 |
| 90: Enid Derham | March 24, 1882 November 13, 1941 | 10787 |
| 91: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis) | November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882 | 10656 |
| 92: M. Forrest | 1872 - 1935 | 10535 |
| 93: Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 11 November 1836 19 March 1907 | 10350 |
| 94: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) | July 20, 1304 July 19, 1374 | 10285 |
| 95: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | February 27, 1807 March 24, 1882 | 10231 |
| 96: Charles G. Leland | August 15, 1824 March 20, 1903 | 10221 |
| 97: James Thomson | 11 September 1700 27 August 1748 | 10191 |
| 98: Thomas Moore | 28 May 1779 25 February 1852 | 10191 |
| 99: Thomas William Heney | 5 November 1862 19 August 192 | 10155 |
| 100: Eugene Field | September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895 | 10141 |
