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Robert Frost(191 poem) March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963

Maya Angelou(52 poem) 4 April 1928 - 28 May 2014

William Shakespeare(403 poem) 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616

Langston Hughes(100 poem) 1 February 1902 – 22 May 1967

Shel Silverstein(223 poem) September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999

Emily Dickinson(1232 poem) 10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886

Pablo Neruda(143 poem) 12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973

Rabindranath Tagore(215 poem) 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941

William Wordsworth(386 poem) 1770-1850

Derek Walcott(28 poem) 23 January 1930

Edgar Allan Poe(69 poem) 19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849

Roald Dahl(27 poem) 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990

William Blake(139 poem) 28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827

Benjamin Zephaniah(20 poem) 15 April 1958

Ogden Nash(126 poem) August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971

Michael Rosen(3 poem) 7 May 1946

John Keats(218 poem) 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821

Roger McGough(17 poem) November 9 - 1937

Charles Bukowski(151 poem) 16 August 1920 – 9 March 1994

Walt Whitman(392 poem) 31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892

Edgar Albert Guest(974 poem) 20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959

Jack Prelutsky(16 poem) 8 September 1940

Sylvia Plath(250 poem) October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963

Sarojini Naidu(51 poem) 13 February 1879 - 2 March 1949

Wilfred Owen(82 poem) 1893-1918

Nikki Giovanni(43 poem) June 7, 1943

Phillis Wheatley(41 poem) 1753 – 5 December 1784

Billy Collins(52 poem) 22 March 1941 -

Kahlil Gibran(81 poem) January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931

Matsuo Basho(114 poem) 1644 - 1694

William Butler Yeats(399 poem) 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939

Rudyard Kipling(546 poem) 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936

Simon Armitage(11 poem) 26 May 1963

Christina Georgina Rossetti(320 poem) 5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894

Gwendolyn Brooks(39 poem) 7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000

Robert Burns(512 poem) 1759-1796

Robert Browning(147 poem) 1812-1889

Jessie Pope(56 poem) 18 March 1868 - 14 December 1941

Robert Louis Stevenson(239 poem) 1850-1894

Carl Sandburg(457 poem) 6 January 1878 – 22 July 1967

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(529 poem) 27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882

Alfred Lord Tennyson(193 poem) 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892

Dylan Thomas(100 poem) 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953

Spike Milligan(51 poem) 16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002

Sara Teasdale(316 poem) August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933

Henry Lawson(501 poem) 17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi(149 poem) 1207 - 1273

Mary Elizabeth Frye(1 poem) 13 November, 1905 - 15 September 2004

Robert William Service(836 poem) 16 January 1874 - 11 September 1958

Lewis Carroll(80 poem) 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898

Edna St. Vincent Millay(169 poem) 22 February 1892 – 19 October 1950

Margaret Atwood(30 poem) 18 November 1939

Siegfried Sassoon(166 poem) 1886 - 1967

Percy Bysshe Shelley(324 poem) 1792-1822

Anne Bradstreet(62 poem) 1612 – 16 September 1672

Paul Laurence Dunbar(424 poem) 1872-1906

Anne Sexton(187 poem) 9 November 1928 – 4 October 1974

Ezra Pound(250 poem) 30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972

Countee Cullen(28 poem) 30 May 1903 – 9 January 1946

Gwen Harwood(12 poem) 8 June 1920 – 4 December 1995

A B Banjo Paterson(284 poem) 17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941

Anonymous(135 poem)

Elizabeth Bishop(72 poem) 8 February 1911 – 6 October 1979

Rainer Maria Rilke(127 poem) 4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926

Thomas Hardy(326 poem) 2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928

Alice Walker(27 poem) 9 February 1944 -

Brian Patten(23 poem) 7 February 1946

Claude McKay(80 poem) 15 September 1889 – 22 May 1948

Anna Akhmatova(83 poem) 23 June 1889 – 5 March 1966

Jack Kerouac(27 poem) 12 March 1922 - 21 October 1969

Hilaire Belloc(101 poem) 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953

Nazim Hikmet(38 poem) 1902-1963

Allen Ginsberg(48 poem) 3 June 1926 – 5 April 1997

Oscar Wilde(110 poem) 1854-1900

Kabir(75 poem) 1440 - 1518

Alfred Noyes(94 poem) 16 September 1880 – 25 June 1958

Rupert Brooke(118 poem) 1887-1915

John Milton(115 poem) 9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674

James Weldon Johnson(63 poem) 1871-1938

Walter de la Mare(93 poem) 1873 - 1958

William Carlos Williams(133 poem) 17 September 1883 – 4 March 1963

Ella Wheeler Wilcox(564 poem) 5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919

Mark Strand(40 poem)

Du Fu(54 poem) 712 - 770

Judith Wright(32 poem) 1915 - 2000

Lawrence Ferlinghetti(33 poem)

Ralph Waldo Emerson(119 poem) 1803 - 1882

Judith Viorst(15 poem) February 2, 1931

Allama Muhammad Iqbal(32 poem) 9 November 1877 - 21 April 1938

Les Murray(59 poem) 17 October 1938

John Donne(190 poem) 24 January 1572 - 31 March 1631

Kamala Das(22 poem) 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009

Mary Oliver(92 poem)

Jacques Prevert(29 poem) 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977

Dorothea Mackellar(12 poem) 1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968

Ted Hughes(29 poem) 1930 - 1998

Charles Dickens(10 poem) 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870

Keki Daruwalla(25 poem) 1937 -

Kazi Nazrul Islam(265 poem) 24 May 1899 - 29 August 1976

Jack Davis(2 poem) 1917 - 17 March 2000

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