1 . Joe Fazio (best of)
2 . Pablo Neruda
3 . Maya Angelou
4 . Langston Hughes
5 . Robert Frost
6 . Charles Bukowski
7 . William Shakespeare
8 . Shel Silverstein
9 . John Keats
10 . Rabindranath Tagore
11 . William Wordsworth
12 . ee cummings
13 . Dylan Thomas
14 . Peter Stavropoulos (Best Love Poems)
15 . Emily Dickinson
16 . William Blake
17 . Khalil Gibran
18 . Sylvia Plath
19 . Roald Dahl
20 . Walt Whitman
21 . Philip Larkin
22 . William Butler Yeats
23 . Rainer Maria Rilke
24 . Edna St. Vincent Millay
25 . Sarojini Naidu
26 . Ted Hughes
27 . Edgar Allan Poe
28 . Billy Collins
29 . Ogden Nash
30 . Robert Browning
31 . Ezra Pound
32 . Elizabeth Barrett Browning
33 . Allen Ginsberg
34 . Elizabeth Bishop
35 . Dorothy Parker
36 . William Carlos Williams
37 . Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
38 . Spike Milligan
39 . Tupac Shakur
40 . Percy Bysshe Shelley
41 . Anne Sexton
42 . Gwendolyn Brooks
43 . Federico García Lorca
44 . John Donne
45 . Jon London
46 . Carl Sandburg
47 . Francis Duggan
48 . Alfred Lord Tennyson
49 . Frank James Ryan, Jr.
50 . James Joyce
51 . Sara Teasdale
52 . Roger McGough
53 . Margaret Atwood
54 . Seamus Heaney
55 . Aldo Kraas
56 . Wallace Stevens
57 . Wilfred Owen
58 . Jack Prelutsky
59 . Rudyard Kipling
60 . Carol Ann Duffy