| Author | Period | # Reads |
| 1: Joseph Addison | May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719 | 9948 |
| 2: William Butler Yeats | June 13, 1865 January 28, 1939 | 9444 |
| 3: A. R. Ammons | February 18, 1926 February 25, 2001 | 8884 |
| 4: Thomas Campbell | July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844 | 8403 |
| 5: Henry Lawson | 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 | 8336 |
| 6: Jennings Carmichael | 24 February 1868 9 February 1904 | 8327 |
| 7: Walter Scott (Sir) | 15 August 1771 21 September 1832 | 8234 |
| 8: John Le Gay Brereton | 2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933 | 7977 |
| 9: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861 | 7922 |
| 10: Robert Lee Frost | March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963 | 7844 |
| 11: Alfred Lord Tennyson | August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892 | 7750 |
| 12: Anna Akhmatova | June 23, 1889 March 5, 1966 | 7563 |
| 13: William Collins | 25 December 1721 12 June 1759 | 7539 |
| 14: Aphra Behn | July 10, 1640 April 16, 1689 | 7509 |
| 15: Walt Whitman | May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892 | 7490 |
| 16: Rudyard Kipling | December 30, 1865 January 18, 1936 | 7451 |
| 17: Edward Dyson | 1865-1931 | 7447 |
| 18: Sara Teasdale | August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933 | 7391 |
| 19: Mark Akenside | November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770 | 7380 |
| 20: Yehuda Amichai | 1924 - September 22, 2000 | 7312 |
| 21: Lewis Carroll | January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898 | 7280 |
| 22: Elizabeth Jennings | July 18, 1926 October 26, 2001 | 7269 |
| 23: Matthew Arnold | 24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 | 7241 |
| 24: William Barnes | 22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886 | 7238 |
| 25: James Henry Leigh Hunt | October 19, 1784 August 28, 1859 | 7230 |
| 26: William Allingham | March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889 | 7133 |
| 27: Nizar Qabbani | 21 March 1923 30 April 1998 | 7132 |
| 28: Edgar Allan Poe | January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849 | 7078 |
| 29: John Masefield | 1 June 1878 12 May 1967 | 7061 |
| 30: Alexander Pope | 21 May 1688 30 May 1744 | 7041 |
| 31: John McCrae | November 30, 1872 January 28, 1918 | 7003 |
| 32: Bertolt Brecht | February 10, 1898 August 14, 1956 | 6982 |
| 33: Matthew Prior | July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721 | 6975 |
| 34: Ambrose Bierce | June 24, 1842 1914 | 6947 |
| 35: Robert Lowell | March 1, 1917September 12, 1977 | 6932 |
| 36: H. H. C. C. | | 6884 |
| 37: Ben Jonson | c. 11 June 1572 6 August 1637 | 6838 |
| 38: Richard Harris Barham | December 6, 1788June 17, 1845 | 6835 |
| 39: William Henry Drummond | April 13, 1854 April 6, 1907 | 6818 |
| 40: Robert Browning | May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889 | 6774 |
| 41: Robert Herrick | Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674 | 6742 |
| 42: John Greenleaf Whittier | December 17, 1807 September 7, 1892 | 6732 |
| 43: Marriott Edgar | October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951 | 6696 |
| 44: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) | February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941 | 6681 |
| 45: Joaquin Miller | September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913 | 6678 |
| 46: John Wilmot | April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680 | 6612 |
| 47: John Keats | 31 October 1795 23 February 1821 | 6605 |
| 48: Walter Savage Landor | January 30, 1775 September 17, 1864 | 6550 |
| 49: Nathaniel Parker Willis | January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867 | 6540 |
| 50: Joseph Burrows | | 6365 |
| 51: Thomas Osborne Davis | October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845 | 6328 |
| 52: Wolcott Balestier | December 13, 1861 - 1891 | 6321 |
| 53: William Wordsworth | April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850 | 6295 |
| 54: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | 25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950 | 6248 |
| 55: Francis Kenna | 1865 - 1932 | 6190 |
| 56: Louis Shreve Osborne | | 6082 |
| 57: Abijah M. Ide | 1825 1873 | 5980 |
| 58: Conrad Potter Aiken | August 5, 1889 August 17, 1973 | 5970 |
| 59: Adam Lindsay Gordon | October 19, 1833 24 June 1870 | 5958 |
| 60: James Joyce | 2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 | 5947 |
| 61: Barcroft Boake | March 26, 1866 ? May 10, 1892 | 5905 |
| 62: Washington Irving | April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859 | 5838 |
| 63: Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) | 6 August 1826 11 March 1915 | 5699 |
| 64: H. G. Wells | September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946 | 5400 |
| 65: Mary Hannay Foott | 26 September 1846 12 October 1918 | 5243 |
| 66: M. Forrest | 1872 - 1935 | 5217 |
| 67: James Lister Cuthbertson | 8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910 | 5127 |
| 68: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834 | 5020 |
| 69: William Chatterton Dix | June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898 | 5015 |
| 70: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke | 24 April 18462 August 1881 | 4946 |
| 71: Victor James Daley | 5 September 1858 29 December 1905 | 4944 |
| 72: Arthur Hugh Clough | January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861 | 4939 |
| 73: Enid Derham | March 24, 1882 November 13, 1941 | 4934 |
| 74: Algernon Charles Swinburne | April 5, 1837 April 10, 1909 | 4790 |
| 75: William Shakespeare | baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616 | 4686 |
| 76: James Thomson | 11 September 1700 27 August 1748 | 4639 |
| 77: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis) | November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882 | 4496 |
| 78: Thomas William Heney | 5 November 1862 19 August 192 | 4448 |
| 79: Henry Kendall | April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882 | 4278 |
| 80: John Milton Hayes | 1884 - 1940 | 4167 |
| 81: John Milton | December 9, 1608 November 8, 1674 | 4108 |
| 82: James Hebblethwaite | 22 September 1857 13 September 1921 | 4052 |
| 83: Bret Harte (Francis) | August 25, 1837 May 6, 1902 | 4034 |
| 84: Charles G. Leland | August 15, 1824 March 20, 1903 | 3983 |
| 85: Charles Baudelaire | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867 | 364 |
| 86: William Blake | November 28, 1757 August 12, 1827 | 364 |
| 87: Katharine Lee Bates | August 12, 1859 March 28, 1929 | 351 |
| 88: William Lisle Bowles | September 24, 1762 - April 7, 1850 | 298 |
| 89: Hilaire Belloc | 27 July 1870 16 July 1953 | 290 |
| 90: Patrick Bronte | 17 March 1777 - 7 June 1861 | 277 |
| 91: Anne Bronte | January 17, 1820 May 28, 1849 | 263 |
| 92: Charlotte Bronte | April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855 | 257 |
| 93: Emily Bronte | July 30, 1818 December 19, 1848 | 249 |
| 94: Anne Bradstreet | 1612 September 16, 1672 | 248 |
| 95: Thomas Edward Brown | May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897 | 234 |
| 96: William Cullen Bryant | November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878 | 234 |
| 97: Rupert Brooke | August 3, 1887 - 23 April 1915 | 223 |
| 98: Robert Burns | 25 January 1759 21 July 1796 | 220 |
| 99: Ellis Parker Butler | December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937 | 186 |
| 100: George Gordon Byron | 22 January 1788 19 April 1824 | 142 |
