| Author | Period | # Reads |
| 1: William Butler Yeats | June 13, 1865 January 28, 1939 | 18922 |
| 2: Joseph Addison | May 1, 1672 June 17, 1719 | 18737 |
| 3: Henry Lawson | 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 | 17531 |
| 4: Rudyard Kipling | December 30, 1865 January 18, 1936 | 16879 |
| 5: Elizabeth Barrett Browning | March 6, 1806 June 29, 1861 | 16393 |
| 6: Walter Scott (Sir) | 15 August 1771 21 September 1832 | 16282 |
| 7: John Le Gay Brereton | 2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933 | 15977 |
| 8: Thomas Campbell | July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844 | 15608 |
| 9: A. R. Ammons | February 18, 1926 February 25, 2001 | 15445 |
| 10: Jennings Carmichael | 24 February 1868 9 February 1904 | 15236 |
| 11: Robert Herrick | Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674 | 15101 |
| 12: Edgar Allan Poe | January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849 | 14957 |
| 13: Walt Whitman | May 31, 1819 March 26, 1892 | 14907 |
| 14: Robert Lee Frost | March 26, 1874 January 29, 1963 | 14740 |
| 15: Anna Akhmatova | June 23, 1889 March 5, 1966 | 14598 |
| 16: Alfred Lord Tennyson | August 6, 1809 October 6, 1892 | 14503 |
| 17: Sara Teasdale | August 8, 1884 January 29, 1933 | 14395 |
| 18: William Wordsworth | April 7, 1770 April 23, 1850 | 14384 |
| 19: Edward Dyson | 1865-1931 | 14147 |
| 20: Matthew Arnold | 24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888 | 14137 |
| 21: Robert Browning | May 7, 1812 December 12, 1889 | 14050 |
| 22: Mark Akenside | November 9, 1721 June 23, 1770 | 13963 |
| 23: Yehuda Amichai | 1924 - September 22, 2000 | 13924 |
| 24: William Allingham | March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889 | 13583 |
| 25: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton) | February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941 | 13466 |
| 26: Conrad Potter Aiken | August 5, 1889 August 17, 1973 | 13216 |
| 27: Aphra Behn | July 10, 1640 April 16, 1689 | 13108 |
| 28: Alexander Pope | 21 May 1688 30 May 1744 | 13091 |
| 29: Lewis Carroll | January 27, 1832 January 14, 1898 | 13000 |
| 30: Bertolt Brecht | February 10, 1898 August 14, 1956 | 12977 |
| 31: John Greenleaf Whittier | December 17, 1807 September 7, 1892 | 12761 |
| 32: William Barnes | 22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886 | 12509 |
| 33: John Keats | 31 October 1795 23 February 1821 | 12492 |
| 34: Elizabeth Jennings | July 18, 1926 October 26, 2001 | 12469 |
| 35: Ambrose Bierce | June 24, 1842 1914 | 12376 |
| 36: Richard Harris Barham | December 6, 1788June 17, 1845 | 12124 |
| 37: James Henry Leigh Hunt | October 19, 1784 August 28, 1859 | 12074 |
| 38: William Collins | 25 December 1721 12 June 1759 | 12016 |
| 39: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | 25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950 | 11958 |
| 40: Matthew Prior | July 21, 1664 September 18, 1721 | 11918 |
| 41: John Masefield | 1 June 1878 12 May 1967 | 11916 |
| 42: Nizar Qabbani | 21 March 1923 30 April 1998 | 11910 |
| 43: William Henry Drummond | April 13, 1854 April 6, 1907 | 11828 |
| 44: Washington Irving | April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859 | 11817 |
| 45: Wolcott Balestier | December 13, 1861 - 1891 | 11552 |
| 46: Algernon Charles Swinburne | April 5, 1837 April 10, 1909 | 11544 |
| 47: John McCrae | November 30, 1872 January 28, 1918 | 11512 |
| 48: H. G. Wells | September 21, 1866 August 13, 1946 | 11486 |
| 49: Ben Jonson | c. 11 June 1572 6 August 1637 | 11412 |
| 50: Barcroft Boake | March 26, 1866 ? May 10, 1892 | 11244 |
| 51: Abijah M. Ide | 1825 1873 | 11219 |
| 52: Robert Lowell | March 1, 1917September 12, 1977 | 11173 |
| 53: Marriott Edgar | October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951 | 11142 |
| 54: H. H. C. C. | | 11138 |
| 55: James Joyce | 2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 | 11093 |
| 56: Walter Savage Landor | January 30, 1775 September 17, 1864 | 11030 |
| 57: Joseph Burrows | | 11028 |
| 58: Nathaniel Parker Willis | January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867 | 10973 |
| 59: John Wilmot | April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680 | 10931 |
| 60: Adam Lindsay Gordon | October 19, 1833 24 June 1870 | 10815 |
| 61: Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) | 6 August 1826 11 March 1915 | 10792 |
| 62: Arthur Hugh Clough | January 1, 1819 November 13, 1861 | 10780 |
| 63: Joaquin Miller | September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913 | 10689 |
| 64: Thomas Osborne Davis | October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845 | 10661 |
| 65: William Shakespeare | baptised 26 April 1564 23 April 1616 | 10384 |
| 66: Francis Kenna | 1865 - 1932 | 10235 |
| 67: Victor James Daley | 5 September 1858 29 December 1905 | 10223 |
| 68: Louis Shreve Osborne | | 10192 |
| 69: Bret Harte (Francis) | August 25, 1837 May 6, 1902 | 10073 |
| 70: James Lister Cuthbertson | 8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910 | 9843 |
| 71: Mary Hannay Foott | 26 September 1846 12 October 1918 | 9805 |
| 72: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | October 21, 1772 July 25, 1834 | 9787 |
| 73: William Chatterton Dix | June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898 | 9562 |
| 74: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke | 24 April 18462 August 1881 | 9519 |
| 75: Enid Derham | March 24, 1882 November 13, 1941 | 9326 |
| 76: M. Forrest | 1872 - 1935 | 9263 |
| 77: Henry Kendall | April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882 | 9146 |
| 78: John Milton | December 9, 1608 November 8, 1674 | 9102 |
| 79: Thomas William Heney | 5 November 1862 19 August 192 | 8890 |
| 80: Louisa May Alcott | November 29, 1832 March 6, 1888 | 8890 |
| 81: Madison Julius Cawein | 23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914 | 8869 |
| 82: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis) | November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882 | 8855 |
| 83: James Thomson | 11 September 1700 27 August 1748 | 8747 |
| 84: John Milton Hayes | 1884 - 1940 | 8362 |
| 85: James Hebblethwaite | 22 September 1857 13 September 1921 | 8301 |
| 86: Charles G. Leland | August 15, 1824 March 20, 1903 | 8289 |
| 87: Horatio Alger, Jr. | January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899 | 8030 |
| 88: William Blake | November 28, 1757 August 12, 1827 | 7885 |
| 89: Charles Baudelaire | April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867 | 7842 |
| 90: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson | December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886 | 7109 |
| 91: John Clare | 13 July 1793 20 May 1864 | 7095 |
| 92: Gilbert Keith Chesterton | May 29, 1874 June 14, 1936 | 7084 |
| 93: Thomas Hardy | 2 June 1840 11 January 1928 | 7074 |
| 94: Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 11 November 1836 19 March 1907 | 7065 |
| 95: George Gordon Byron | 22 January 1788 19 April 1824 | 7062 |
| 96: Anne Bradstreet | 1612 September 16, 1672 | 6848 |
| 97: Robert Burns | 25 January 1759 21 July 1796 | 6808 |
| 98: Arthur Conan Doyle | 22 May 1859 7 July 1930 | 6643 |
| 99: Anne Bronte | January 17, 1820 May 28, 1849 | 6577 |
| 100: William Cullen Bryant | November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878 | 6569 |
