| Author | Period | # Reads |
| 1: Joseph Addison | May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719 | 6652 |
| 2: William Butler Yeats | June 13, 1865 January 28, 1939 | 6615 |
| 3: A. R. Ammons | February 18, 1926 February 25, 2001 | 6024 |
| 4: Alfred Lord Tennyson | August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892 | 5329 |
| 5: Robert Lee Frost | March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963 | 5250 |
| 6: Henry Lawson | 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 | 5166 |
| 7: Aphra Behn | July 10, 1640 April 16, 1689 | 5132 |
| 8: William Collins | 25 December 1721 12 June 1759 | 5065 |
| 9: Thomas Campbell | July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844 | 5061 |
| 10: Walter Scott (Sir) | 15 August 1771 21 September 1832 | 5044 |
| 11: Walt Whitman | May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892 | 5034 |
| 12: Anna Akhmatova | June 23, 1889 March 5, 1966 | 5017 |
| 13: Elizabeth Jennings | July 18, 1926 October 26, 2001 | 5012 |
| 14: Jennings Carmichael | 24 February 1868 9 February 1904 | 4958 |
| 15: Sara Teasdale | August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933 | 4947 |
| 16: Rudyard Kipling | December 30, 1865 January 18, 1936 | 4926 |
| 17: Mark Akenside | November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770 | 4880 |
| 18: James Henry Leigh Hunt | October 19, 1784 August 28, 1859 | 4870 |
| 19: Lewis Carroll | January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898 | 4852 |
| 20: Edward Dyson | 1865-1931 | 4847 |
| 21: William Barnes | 22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886 | 4804 |
| 22: Matthew Arnold | 24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 | 4768 |
| 23: Nizar Qabbani | 21 March 1923 30 April 1998 | 4763 |
| 24: John McCrae | November 30, 1872 January 28, 1918 | 4746 |
| 25: Yehuda Amichai | 1924 - September 22, 2000 | 4732 |
| 26: Alexander Pope | 21 May 1688 30 May 1744 | 4717 |
| 27: John Masefield | 1 June 1878 12 May 1967 | 4708 |
| 28: Robert Lowell | March 1, 1917September 12, 1977 | 4705 |
| 29: Edgar Allan Poe | January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849 | 4701 |
| 30: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861 | 4685 |
| 31: Matthew Prior | July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721 | 4678 |
| 32: Ben Jonson | c. 11 June 1572 6 August 1637 | 4673 |
| 33: John Le Gay Brereton | 2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933 | 4617 |
| 34: Ambrose Bierce | June 24, 1842 1914 | 4614 |
| 35: Bertolt Brecht | February 10, 1898 August 14, 1956 | 4575 |
| 36: Richard Harris Barham | December 6, 1788June 17, 1845 | 4553 |
| 37: William Allingham | March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889 | 4552 |
| 38: Joaquin Miller | September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913 | 4470 |
| 39: William Henry Drummond | April 13, 1854 April 6, 1907 | 4468 |
| 40: H. H. C. C. | | 4462 |
| 41: Robert Herrick | Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674 | 4445 |
| 42: John Wilmot | April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680 | 4401 |
| 43: Marriott Edgar | October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951 | 4391 |
| 44: Walter Savage Landor | January 30, 1775 September 17, 1864 | 4342 |
| 45: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) | February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941 | 4337 |
| 46: Nathaniel Parker Willis | January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867 | 4243 |
| 47: John Greenleaf Whittier | December 17, 1807 September 7, 1892 | 4229 |
| 48: John Keats | 31 October 1795 23 February 1821 | 4086 |
| 49: Robert Browning | May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889 | 4070 |
| 50: Francis Kenna | 1865 - 1932 | 4042 |
| 51: William Wordsworth | April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850 | 4038 |
| 52: Thomas Osborne Davis | October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845 | 4005 |
| 53: Wolcott Balestier | December 13, 1861 - 1891 | 3919 |
| 54: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | 25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950 | 3869 |
| 55: Joseph Burrows | | 3764 |
| 56: Louis Shreve Osborne | | 3707 |
| 57: James Joyce | 2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 | 3651 |
| 58: Adam Lindsay Gordon | October 19, 1833 24 June 1870 | 3587 |
| 59: Abijah M. Ide | 1825 1873 | 3572 |
| 60: Barcroft Boake | March 26, 1866 ? May 10, 1892 | 3525 |
| 61: Washington Irving | April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859 | 3522 |
| 62: Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) | 6 August 1826 11 March 1915 | 3405 |
| 63: Conrad Potter Aiken | August 5, 1889 August 17, 1973 | 3192 |
| 64: H. G. Wells | September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946 | 3080 |
| 65: Mary Hannay Foott | 26 September 1846 12 October 1918 | 2762 |
| 66: M. Forrest | 1872 - 1935 | 2666 |
| 67: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke | 24 April 18462 August 1881 | 2630 |
| 68: James Lister Cuthbertson | 8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910 | 2600 |
| 69: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834 | 2580 |
| 70: William Chatterton Dix | June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898 | 2560 |
| 71: Arthur Hugh Clough | January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861 | 2546 |
| 72: Victor James Daley | 5 September 1858 29 December 1905 | 2516 |
| 73: Enid Derham | March 24, 1882 November 13, 1941 | 2501 |
| 74: James Thomson | 11 September 1700 27 August 1748 | 2349 |
| 75: Algernon Charles Swinburne | April 5, 1837 April 10, 1909 | 2315 |
| 76: William Shakespeare | baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616 | 2310 |
| 77: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis) | November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882 | 2245 |
| 78: Thomas William Heney | 5 November 1862 19 August 192 | 1897 |
| 79: Henry Kendall | April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882 | 1741 |
| 80: Bret Harte (Francis) | August 25, 1837 May 6, 1902 | 1733 |
| 81: John Milton Hayes | 1884 - 1940 | 1729 |
| 82: John Milton | December 9, 1608 November 8, 1674 | 1728 |
| 83: James Hebblethwaite | 22 September 1857 13 September 1921 | 1691 |
| 84: Charles G. Leland | August 15, 1824 March 20, 1903 | 1677 |
