| Author | Period | # Reads |
| 1: Rudyard Kipling | December 30, 1865 January 18, 1936 | 29472 |
| 2: William Butler Yeats | June 13, 1865 January 28, 1939 | 28581 |
| 3: Henry Lawson | 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 | 28196 |
| 4: Robert Herrick | Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674 | 27434 |
| 5: William Wordsworth | April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850 | 23487 |
| 6: Sara Teasdale | August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933 | 23410 |
| 7: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) | February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941 | 22678 |
| 8: Walt Whitman | May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892 | 22623 |
| 9: Robert Lee Frost | March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963 | 22500 |
| 10: Joseph Addison | May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719 | 22306 |
| 11: Edgar Allan Poe | January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849 | 22234 |
| 12: Alfred Lord Tennyson | August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892 | 21996 |
| 13: Edward Dyson | 1865-1931 | 21689 |
| 14: Arthur Hugh Clough | January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861 | 21474 |
| 15: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861 | 21392 |
| 16: Walter Scott (Sir) | 15 August 1771 21 September 1832 | 20233 |
| 17: A. R. Ammons | February 18, 1926 February 25, 2001 | 19940 |
| 18: Algernon Charles Swinburne | April 5, 1837 April 10, 1909 | 19627 |
| 19: John Le Gay Brereton | 2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933 | 19094 |
| 20: Robert Browning | May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889 | 19068 |
| 21: Anna Akhmatova | June 23, 1889 March 5, 1966 | 18722 |
| 22: Matthew Arnold | 24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 | 18581 |
| 23: Alexander Pope | 21 May 1688 30 May 1744 | 18242 |
| 24: Thomas Campbell | July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844 | 18026 |
| 25: John Keats | 31 October 1795 23 February 1821 | 17622 |
| 26: Jennings Carmichael | 24 February 1868 9 February 1904 | 17544 |
| 27: John Greenleaf Whittier | December 17, 1807 September 7, 1892 | 17539 |
| 28: Conrad Potter Aiken | August 5, 1889 August 17, 1973 | 17101 |
| 29: Lewis Carroll | January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898 | 17086 |
| 30: Yehuda Amichai | 1924 - September 22, 2000 | 17078 |
| 31: Mark Akenside | November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770 | 16973 |
| 32: Madison Julius Cawein | 23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914 | 16879 |
| 33: Bertolt Brecht | February 10, 1898 August 14, 1956 | 16710 |
| 34: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | 25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950 | 16248 |
| 35: William Allingham | March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889 | 16164 |
| 36: Washington Irving | April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859 | 16108 |
| 37: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson | December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886 | 15970 |
| 38: Aphra Behn | July 10, 1640 April 16, 1689 | 15635 |
| 39: H. G. Wells | September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946 | 15594 |
| 40: William Shakespeare | baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616 | 15545 |
| 41: Thomas Hardy | 2 June 1840 11 January 1928 | 15286 |
| 42: Elizabeth Jennings | July 18, 1926 October 26, 2001 | 15091 |
| 43: Matthew Prior | July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721 | 14973 |
| 44: Ambrose Bierce | June 24, 1842 1914 | 14956 |
| 45: Nizar Qabbani | 21 March 1923 30 April 1998 | 14944 |
| 46: John Masefield | 1 June 1878 12 May 1967 | 14920 |
| 47: James Joyce | 2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 | 14883 |
| 48: William Barnes | 22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886 | 14710 |
| 49: Louisa May Alcott | November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888 | 14662 |
| 50: William Henry Drummond | April 13, 1854 April 6, 1907 | 14632 |
| 51: Bret Harte (Francis) | August 25, 1836 May 6, 1902 | 14520 |
| 52: Charles Baudelaire | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867 | 14468 |
| 53: James Henry Leigh Hunt | October 19, 1784 August 28, 1859 | 14363 |
| 54: Ben Jonson | c. 11 June 1572 6 August 1637 | 14235 |
| 55: Walter Savage Landor | January 30, 1775 September 17, 1864 | 14224 |
| 56: Marriott Edgar | October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951 | 14115 |
| 57: Barcroft Boake | March 26, 1866 ? May 10, 1892 | 14090 |
| 58: Richard Harris Barham | December 6, 1788June 17, 1845 | 14027 |
| 59: Wolcott Balestier | December 13, 1861 - 1891 | 13987 |
| 60: Nathaniel Parker Willis | January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867 | 13906 |
| 61: William Collins | 25 December 1721 12 June 1759 | 13805 |
| 62: Adam Lindsay Gordon | October 19, 1833 24 June 1870 | 13574 |
| 63: John McCrae | November 30, 1872 January 28, 1918 | 13551 |
| 64: Abijah M. Ide | 1825 1873 | 13534 |
| 65: Robert Lowell | March 1, 1917September 12, 1977 | 13339 |
| 66: John Wilmot | April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680 | 13332 |
| 67: John Milton | December 9, 1608 November 8, 1674 | 13153 |
| 68: William Blake | November 28, 1757 August 12, 1827 | 12939 |
| 69: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834 | 12933 |
| 70: Victor James Daley | 5 September 1858 29 December 1905 | 12911 |
| 71: George Gordon Byron | 22 January 1788 19 April 1824 | 12910 |
| 72: John Clare | 13 July 1793 20 May 1864 | 12861 |
| 73: H. H. C. C. | | 12804 |
| 74: Horatio Alger, Jr. | January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899 | 12696 |
| 75: Joseph Burrows | | 12662 |
| 76: Thomas Alexander Browne (Rolf Boldrewood) | 6 August 1826 11 March 1915 | 12638 |
| 77: Joaquin Miller | September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913 | 12579 |
| 78: Robert Burns | 25 January 1759 21 July 1796 | 12513 |
| 79: Henry Kendall | April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882 | 12466 |
| 80: Thomas Osborne Davis | October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845 | 12249 |
| 81: George MacDonald | 10 December 1824 18 September 1905 | 11972 |
| 82: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke | 24 April 18462 August 1881 | 11895 |
| 83: Francis Kenna | 1865 - 1932 | 11864 |
| 84: Arthur Conan Doyle | 22 May 1859 7 July 1930 | 11849 |
| 85: Mary Hannay Foott | 26 September 1846 12 October 1918 | 11737 |
| 86: Louis Shreve Osborne | | 11671 |
| 87: James Lister Cuthbertson | 8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910 | 11606 |
| 88: Gilbert Keith Chesterton | May 29, 1874 June 14, 1936 | 11545 |
| 89: Eugene Field | September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895 | 11481 |
| 90: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) | July 20, 1304 July 19, 1374 | 11341 |
| 91: William Chatterton Dix | June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898 | 11325 |
| 92: Thomas Moore | 28 May 1779 25 February 1852 | 11305 |
| 93: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis) | November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882 | 11183 |
| 94: Enid Derham | March 24, 1882 November 13, 1941 | 11092 |
| 95: Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 11 November 1836 19 March 1907 | 11016 |
| 96: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | February 27, 1807 March 24, 1882 | 10922 |
| 97: James Whitcomb Riley | October 7, 1849 July 22, 1916 | 10908 |
| 98: John Hartley | 1839-1915 | 10808 |
| 99: M. Forrest | 1872 - 1935 | 10752 |
| 100: Charles G. Leland | August 15, 1824 March 20, 1903 | 10631 |
