Authors of American Verse
- Adams, Henry (1838-1918)
- Adams, John (1704-1740)
- Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
- Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888)
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907)
- Alger, Jr., Horatio (1832-1899)
- Allen, Elizabeth Akers (1832-1911 )
- Allen, James (1739-1808)
- Allen, Paul (1784-1826)
- Allston, Washington (1779-1843)
- Alsop, George (1636-1673?)
- Arthur, T. S. (1809-1885)
- Barlow, Joel (1754-1812)
- Bates, Katharine Lee (1859-1929)
- Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
- Belknap, Jeremy (1744-1798)
- Bell, James Madison (1826-1902)
- Benjamin, Park (1809-1864)
- Benjamin, Robert C. O. (1855-1900)
- Bibb, Eloise A. (1878-1927)
- Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914)
- Blackson, Lorenzo Dow (b.1817)
- Bland, James A. (1854-1911)
- Bleeker, Ann Eliza (1752-1783)
- Blood, Benjamin Paul (1832-1919)
- Bodman, Manoah (1765-1850)
- Boker, George Henry (1823-1890)
- Botta, Anne C. Lynch (1815-1891)
- Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895)
- Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748-1816)
- Bradford, William (1590-1657)
- Bradstreet, Anne (1612 or 1613-1672)
- Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins (1796-1828)
- >Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878-1962)
- Branagan, Thomas (1174-1843)
- >Branch, Anna Hempstead (1875-1937)
- Bristol, Augusta Cooper (1835-1910)
- Brooks, Charles Timothy (1813-1883)
- Brooks, Maria Gowen (1794?-1845)
- Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)
- Brown, William Hill (1765-1793)
- Brownell, Henry Howard (1820-1872)
- Bryant, John Howard
- >Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878)
- Burgess, Gelett (1866-1951)
- Butterworth, Hezekiah (1839-1905)
- Byles, Mather (1707-1788)
- Cable, George Washington (1844-1925)
- Campbell, Alfred Gibbs (b.1826?)
- Campbell, James Edwin (1867-1895)
- Canning, Josiah D. (1816-1892)
- Cannon, Noah Calwell W. (1796?-1850)
- Carleton, Will (1845-1912)
- >Carman, Bliss (1861-1929)
- Carryl, Charles Edward (1841-1920)
- Cary, Alice (1820-1871)
- Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871)
- Cawein, Madison (1865-1914)
- Channing II, William Ellery (1817-1901)
- Chapman, John Jay (1862-1933)
- Chivers, Thomas Holley (1809-1858)
- Church, Benjamin (1734-1778)
- Clark, Benjamin Cutler (b.1825?)
- Clarke, McDonald
- Clarke, Rebecca Sophia (1833-1906)
- Cliffton, William (1772-1799)
- Cockings, George (fl. 1758-1802)
- Coffin, Frank Barbour (1870?-1951)
- Cogswell, Mason Fitch (1761-1830)
- Cole, Thomas (1801-1848)
- Colman, Benjamin (1673-1747)
- Cook, Ebenezer (c. 1667-c. 1732)
- Cooke, Philip Pendleton (1816-1850)
- Cooke, Rose Terry (1827-1892)
- Coolbrith, Ina (1841-1928)
- Coolidge, Susan (1835-1905)
- Coombe, Thomas (1747-1822)
- Corrothers, James David (1869-1917)
- Cotter, Jr., Joseph Seamon (1895-1919)
- Cradock, Thomas (1718-1770)
- >Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)
- Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
- Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914)
- Crawford, Charles (1752-c. 1815)
- Dana, Sr., Richard Henry (1787-1879)
- Dandridge, Raymond Garfield
- Danforth, John (1660-1730)
- Danforth, Samuel I (1626-1674)
- Davidson, Lucretia Maria
- Davies, Samuel (1723-1761)
- Davis, Daniel Webster (1862-1913)
- Davis, John (1774-1854)
- Dawson, William (1704-1752)
- De Forest, John William (1826-1906)
- >Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
- Dickson, Samuel Henry (1798-1872)
- Dinsmoor, Robert (1757-1836)
- Dodge, Mary Mapes (1837-1905)
- Dorr, Julia (1825-1913)
- Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820)
- >Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
- Dwight, Tomothy (1752-1817)
- Eastburn, James Wallis (1797-1819)
- >Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
- Emerson, William (1769-1811)
- Emmett, Daniel Decatur (1815-1904)
- Emmons, Richard (1788-?)
- English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902)
- Evans, Nathaniel (1742-1767)
- Fenollosa, Ernest (1853-1908)
- Fessenden, Thomas Green (1771-1837)
- Field, Eugene (1850-1895)
- Fields, James Thomas (1817-1881)
- Finch, Francis Miles (1827-1907)
- >Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)
- Folger, Peter (1617-1690)
- Fordham, Mary Weston (b.1862?)
- Forest, John William De (1826-1906)
- Forton, Charlotte L. (1837-19114)
- Fortune, Michael (fl.1808)
- Fortune, Timothy Thomas (1856-1928)
- Foster, Stephen (1826-1864)
- Franklin, James Thomas (fl.1900)
- Freneau, Philip (1752-1832)
- Fuller, Sarah Margaret (Marchesa D'Ossoli) (1810-1850)
- Garland, Hamlin (1860-1940)
- Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)
- Gilman, Caroline H. (1794-1888)
- Godfrey, Thomas (1736-1763)
- Goodrich, Samuel Griswold (1793-1860)
- Gordon, Rev. Charles Benjamin William (b.1861)
- Gould, Hannah (1789-1865)
- Graves, John (fl. 1662)
- Grayson, William (1788-1863)
- Green, Jonas (1712-1767)
- Green, Joseph (1706-1780)
- Greenwood, Grace
- Grimke, Charlotte L. Forten (1837-1914)
- Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920)
- Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell) (1788-1879)
- >Halleck, Fitz-Greene (1790-1867)
- Hammon, Jupiter (1711-c. 1806)
- >Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (1825-1911)
- Harte, Bret (1836-1902)
- Hastings, Thomas (1784-1872)
- Hay, John (1838-1905)
- Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830-1886)
- Heard, Josephine Delphine Henderson (b.1861)
- Henderson, Elliott Blaine
- Herbert, Henry William (1807-1858)
- Hillhouse, James (1789-1841)
- Hitchcock, David (1773-1849)
- Hoffman, Charles Fenno (1806-1884)
- Holland, Josiah Gilbert (1819-1881)
- Holly, Joseph Cephas (1825-1854)
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
- Honeywood, St. John (1763-1798)
- Hooper, Ellen Sturges
- Hopkins, Jr., John Henry (1820-1891)
- Hopkins, Lemuel (1750-1801)
- Hopkinson, Francis (1737-1791)
- Horton, George Moses (1797?-1883?)
- Hosmer, William H. C. (1814-1877)
- Hovey, Richard (1864-1900)
- Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
- Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
- Humphreys, David (1752-1818)
- Huntington, William Reed (1838-1909)
- Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885)
- Jefferson, Wilson (1879-?)
- Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849-1909)
- >Johnson, Fenton (1888-1958)
- Judd, Sylvester (1813-1853)
- Kemble, Fanny (1809-1893)
- Key, Francis Scott (1779-1843)
- Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918)
- Ladd, Joseph Brown (1764-1786)
- Lambert, Mary Eliza [Perine] Tucker (b.1838)
- >Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881)
- >Larcom, Lucy (1824-1893)
- Lathrop, Jr., John (1772-1820)
- Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887)
- Legaré, James Mathewes (1823-1859)
- Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903)
- Lewis, Richard (c. 1700-1734)
- Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
- Linn, John Blair (1777-1804)
- Livingston, William (1723-1790)
- Lodge, George Cabot (1873-1909)
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
- Longfellow, Samuel (1819-1892)
- Low, Samuel (1765-?)
- Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
- Lowell, Maria White (1821-1853)
- Lowry, Robert (1826-1899)
- Markham, Edwin (1852-1940)
- Mason, Lowell (1792-1872)
- Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)
- Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
- Mathews, Cornelius (1817?-1889)
- May, Sophie (1833-1906)
- McClellan, George Marion (1860-1934)
- McGirt, James Ephraim (1874-1930)
- Meek, Alexander Beaufort (1814-1865)
- Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
- Menard, John Willis (1838-1893)
- Menken, Adah Isaacs (1835?-1868)
- Merrill, Stuart (1863-1915)
- Miles, Nathan (1741-1828)
- Millar, Gerard (fl.1906)
- >Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
- Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)
- Mitchell, S. Weir (1829-1914)
- Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936)
- >Moody, William Vaughn (1869-1910)
- Moore, Alice Ruth (1875-1935)
- Moore, Clement Clarke (1779-1863)
- Moorer, Lizelia Augusta Jenkins
- Morrell, William (fl. 1623-1625)
- Morris, George Pope (1802-1864)
- Morton, Sarah Wentworth (1759-1846)
- Moulton, Louise Chandler (1835-1908)
- Munford, Robert (c. 1737-1783)
- Neal, John (1793-1876)
- Newell, Robert Henry (1836-1901)
- O'Brien, Fitz-James (1828-1862)
- Oakes, Urian (c.1631-1681)
- Odell, Jonathan (1737-1818)
- Odiorne, Thomas (1769-1851)
- Osgood, Francis Sargent (1811-1850)
- Paine, Jr., Robert Treat (1773-1811)
- Parke, John (1754-1789)
- Parker, Theodore (1810-1860)
- Paulding, James Kirke (1778-1860)
- Payne, Daniel Alexander (1811-1893)
- Payne, John Howard (1791-1852)
- Percival, James Gates (1795-1856)
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (1844-1911)
- Piatt, John James (1835-1917)
- Piatt, Sarah Morgan (1836-1919)
- Pierpont, John (1785-1866)
- Pike, Albert (1809-1891)
- Pinkney, Edward Coote (1802-1828)
- Plato, Ann (b.1820?)
- Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849)
- Posey, Alexander L. (1873-1908)
- Prime, Benjamin Young (1733-1791)
- Purvis, T. T. (fl.1881)
- Pyle, Howard (1853-1911)
- Randall, James Ryder (1839-1908)
- Ray, Henrietta Cordelia (1849-1916)
- Read, Thomas Buchanan (1822-1872)
- Reason, Charles Lewis (1818-1893)
- >Reese, Lizette Woodworth (1856-1935)
- Reid, James (dates unknown)
- Rhodes, Jacob (b.1835?)
- Rich, Elisha (1740-c.1804)
- Rich, Richard (fl. 1609-1610)
- Richards, George (c. 1760-1814)
- Ridge, John Rollin (1827-1907)
- Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)
- >Robinson, E. A. (1869-1935)
- Rogers, Elymas Payson (1815-1861)
- Rogers, John (1648-172l)
- Rose, Aquila (c. 1695-1723)
- Rosenfeld, Morris (1862-1923)
- Rowe, George Clinton (1853-1903)
- Rowson, Susanna Haswell (c.1762-1884)
- Ryan, Abram Joseph (1838-1886)
- Séjour, Victor (Juan Victor Séjour et Marco Ferrand)(1817-1874)
- >Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967)
- Sands, Robert C. (1799-1832)
- Sandys, George (1578-1644)
- Santayana, George (1863-1952)
- Sargent, Epes (1813-1880)
- >Savage, Philip Henry (1868-1899)
- Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-1887)
- Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864)
- Scollard, Clinton (1860-1932)
- Sears, Edmund Hamilton (1810-1876)
- Searson, John (1750-?)
- Seeger, Alan (1888-1916)
- Shaw, John (1778-1809)
- Sherman, Frank Dempster (1860-1916)
- Shoeman, Charles Henry (fl.1899-1900)
- Sidney, Robert Y. (fl.1809)
- Sigourney, Lydia Howard (Huntley) (1791-1865)
- Sill, Edward Rowland (1841-1887)
- Simms, William Gilmore (1806-1870)
- Simpson, Joshua McCarter (1820?-1876)
- Smith, Elihu Hubbard (1771-1798)
- Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) (1806-1893)
- Smith, Samuel Francis (1808-1895)
- Smith, William (1727-1803)
- Stansbury, Joseph (1742-1809)
- Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908)
- Stephens, Ann (1813-1886)
- Sterling, James (1701-1763)
- Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1850-1915)
- Stickney, Trumbull (1874-1904)
- Stoddard, Elizabeth Barstow (1823-1902)
- Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825-1903)
- Story, William Wetmore (1819-1895)
- Tabb, John B. (1845-1909)
- Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878)
- Taylor, Edward (c. 1642-1729)
- Temple, George Hannibal (fl.1900)
- Terry, Lucy (1730-1821)
- Thaxter, Celia (1835-1894)
- Thayer, Ernest Lawrence (1863-1940)
- Thompson, Aaron Belford (1883-1929)
- Thompson, John R. (1823-1873)
- Thompson, Maurice (1844-1901)
- Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
- Thorpe, Rose Hartwick (1850-1939)
- Timrod, Henry (1828-1867)
- Tompson, Benjamin (1642-1714)
- Torrence, Ridgely (1874-1950)
- Townsend, Eliza (1788-1854)
- Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827-1916)
- Trumbull, John (1750-1831)
- Tucker, Mary E. (1838-?)
- Tucker, St. George (1752-1827)
- Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard (1821-1873 )
- Turner, Henry McNeal (1834-1915)
- Tyler, Royall (1757-1826)
- Vandyne, William Johnson (fl.1891)
- Vashon, George Boyer (1824-1878)
- Very, Jones (1813-1880)
- >Viereck, George Sylvester (1884-1962)
- Walden, Alfred Islay (1847?-1884)
- Ware, Jr., Henry (1794-1843)
- Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)
- Wasson, David Atwood (1823-1887)
- Watkins, James Robert (b.1821?)
- Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
- Wheatley, Phillis (1753?-1784)
- White, Charles Frederick (1876-?)
- Whitfield, James Monroe (1822-1871)
- Whitman, Albery Allson (1851-1901)
- Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power) (1803-1878)
- Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
- Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
- Wigglesworth, Michael (1631-1705)
- Wilcox, Carlos (1794-1827)
- >Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1939)
- Wilde, Richard Henry (1789-1847)
- Williams, Edward W. (1863-1891)
- Williams, John (1761-1818)
- Williams, Peter (fl.1809)
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867)
- Willson, Forceythe (1837-1867)
- Wilson, John (1588-1667)
- Winchester, Elhanan (1751-1797)
- Wolcott, Roger (1679-1767)
- Woodworth, Samuel (1785-1842)
- Woolsey, Sarah Chauncy (see Susan Coolidge)
- Worcester, Samuel (1770-1821)
- Work, Henry Clay (1832-1884)
Last updated May 14, 2001