| Author | Period | # Reads |
| 1: Rudyard Kipling | December 30, 1865 January 18, 1936 | 26658 |
| 2: William Butler Yeats | June 13, 1865 January 28, 1939 | 26499 |
| 3: Henry Lawson | 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 | 25912 |
| 4: Robert Herrick | Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674 | 24184 |
| 5: William Wordsworth | April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850 | 21550 |
| 6: Joseph Addison | May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719 | 21540 |
| 7: Sara Teasdale | August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933 | 21384 |
| 8: Walt Whitman | May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892 | 21085 |
| 9: Edgar Allan Poe | January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849 | 20868 |
| 10: Arthur Hugh Clough | January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861 | 20770 |
| 11: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) | February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941 | 20725 |
| 12: Robert Lee Frost | March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963 | 20619 |
| 13: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861 | 20378 |
| 14: Edward Dyson | 1865-1931 | 20306 |
| 15: Alfred Lord Tennyson | August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892 | 20199 |
| 16: Walter Scott (Sir) | 15 August 1771 21 September 1832 | 19536 |
| 17: A. R. Ammons | February 18, 1926 February 25, 2001 | 19247 |
| 18: John Le Gay Brereton | 2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933 | 18526 |
| 19: Anna Akhmatova | June 23, 1889 March 5, 1966 | 17993 |
| 20: Robert Browning | May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889 | 17982 |
| 21: Matthew Arnold | 24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 | 17637 |
| 22: Thomas Campbell | July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844 | 17603 |
| 23: Jennings Carmichael | 24 February 1868 9 February 1904 | 17220 |
| 24: Algernon Charles Swinburne | April 5, 1837 April 10, 1909 | 17219 |
| 25: Alexander Pope | 21 May 1688 30 May 1744 | 17062 |
| 26: John Greenleaf Whittier | December 17, 1807 September 7, 1892 | 16593 |
| 27: Mark Akenside | November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770 | 16494 |
| 28: Yehuda Amichai | 1924 - September 22, 2000 | 16417 |
| 29: Lewis Carroll | January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898 | 16358 |
| 30: Conrad Potter Aiken | August 5, 1889 August 17, 1973 | 16259 |
| 31: John Keats | 31 October 1795 23 February 1821 | 16064 |
| 32: Bertolt Brecht | February 10, 1898 August 14, 1956 | 15938 |
| 33: William Allingham | March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889 | 15651 |
| 34: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | 25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950 | 15315 |
| 35: Washington Irving | April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859 | 15245 |
| 36: Madison Julius Cawein | 23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914 | 15209 |
| 37: Aphra Behn | July 10, 1640 April 16, 1689 | 15153 |
| 38: H. G. Wells | September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946 | 14807 |
| 39: Elizabeth Jennings | July 18, 1926 October 26, 2001 | 14628 |
| 40: William Shakespeare | baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616 | 14614 |
| 41: Ambrose Bierce | June 24, 1842 1914 | 14499 |
| 42: Nizar Qabbani | 21 March 1923 30 April 1998 | 14335 |
| 43: Matthew Prior | July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721 | 14314 |
| 44: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson | December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886 | 14302 |
| 45: John Masefield | 1 June 1878 12 May 1967 | 14279 |
| 46: William Barnes | 22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886 | 14233 |
| 47: James Joyce | 2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 | 14161 |
| 48: William Henry Drummond | April 13, 1854 April 6, 1907 | 14141 |
| 49: James Henry Leigh Hunt | October 19, 1784 August 28, 1859 | 13936 |
| 50: Thomas Hardy | 2 June 1840 11 January 1928 | 13740 |
| 51: Ben Jonson | c. 11 June 1572 6 August 1637 | 13688 |
| 52: Bret Harte (Francis) | August 25, 1836 May 6, 1902 | 13674 |
| 53: Richard Harris Barham | December 6, 1788June 17, 1845 | 13658 |
| 54: Wolcott Balestier | December 13, 1861 - 1891 | 13574 |
| 55: Barcroft Boake | March 26, 1866 ? May 10, 1892 | 13561 |
| 56: Louisa May Alcott | November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888 | 13542 |
| 57: Walter Savage Landor | January 30, 1775 September 17, 1864 | 13518 |
| 58: Charles Baudelaire | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867 | 13508 |
| 59: Marriott Edgar | October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951 | 13462 |
| 60: William Collins | 25 December 1721 12 June 1759 | 13442 |
| 61: Nathaniel Parker Willis | January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867 | 13390 |
| 62: John McCrae | November 30, 1872 January 28, 1918 | 13177 |
| 63: Abijah M. Ide | 1825 1873 | 13136 |
| 64: Adam Lindsay Gordon | October 19, 1833 24 June 1870 | 13030 |
| 65: Robert Lowell | March 1, 1917September 12, 1977 | 12856 |
| 66: John Wilmot | April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680 | 12845 |
| 67: H. H. C. C. | | 12527 |
| 68: Joseph Burrows | | 12363 |
| 69: Victor James Daley | 5 September 1858 29 December 1905 | 12347 |
| 70: Thomas Alexander Browne (Rolf Boldrewood) | 6 August 1826 11 March 1915 | 12314 |
| 71: Joaquin Miller | September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913 | 12225 |
| 72: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834 | 12197 |
| 73: John Milton | December 9, 1608 November 8, 1674 | 12139 |
| 74: William Blake | November 28, 1757 August 12, 1827 | 12085 |
| 75: Thomas Osborne Davis | October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845 | 11998 |
| 76: Horatio Alger, Jr. | January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899 | 11787 |
| 77: Henry Kendall | April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882 | 11776 |
| 78: John Clare | 13 July 1793 20 May 1864 | 11773 |
| 79: Francis Kenna | 1865 - 1932 | 11554 |
| 80: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke | 24 April 18462 August 1881 | 11515 |
| 81: George Gordon Byron | 22 January 1788 19 April 1824 | 11426 |
| 82: Robert Burns | 25 January 1759 21 July 1796 | 11396 |
| 83: Louis Shreve Osborne | | 11389 |
| 84: Mary Hannay Foott | 26 September 1846 12 October 1918 | 11336 |
| 85: James Lister Cuthbertson | 8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910 | 11283 |
| 86: William Chatterton Dix | June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898 | 11024 |
| 87: Arthur Conan Doyle | 22 May 1859 7 July 1930 | 10755 |
| 88: Gilbert Keith Chesterton | May 29, 1874 June 14, 1936 | 10733 |
| 89: Enid Derham | March 24, 1882 November 13, 1941 | 10728 |
| 90: George MacDonald | 10 December 1824 18 September 1905 | 10577 |
| 91: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis) | November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882 | 10574 |
| 92: M. Forrest | 1872 - 1935 | 10471 |
| 93: Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 11 November 1836 19 March 1907 | 10232 |
| 94: James Thomson | 11 September 1700 27 August 1748 | 10132 |
| 95: Charles G. Leland | August 15, 1824 March 20, 1903 | 10131 |
| 96: Thomas William Heney | 5 November 1862 19 August 192 | 10101 |
| 97: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) | July 20, 1304 July 19, 1374 | 10056 |
| 98: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | February 27, 1807 March 24, 1882 | 10047 |
| 99: Thomas Moore | 28 May 1779 25 February 1852 | 9990 |
| 100: John Milton Hayes | 1884 - 1940 | 9921 |
