- United States:
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Walt Whitman
- Emily Dickinson
- Julia Ward Howe (author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")
- James Russell Lowell
- Robert Frost
- Carl Sandburg
- United Kingdom:
- William Shakespeare
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- William Blake
- Rudyard Kipling
- Thomas Gray
- John Masefield
- William Wordsworth
- India:
- Rabindranath Tagore (also wrote the Indian national anthem)
- Subramania Bharati
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Maithili Sharan Gupt
- France:
- Victor Hugo
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- Paul Verlaine
- Charles Péguy
- Maurice Barrès
- Louise Michel
- Germany:
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Friedrich Schiller
- Novalis
- Heinrich Heine
- Theodor Körner
- Max von Schenkendorf
- Ernst Moritz Arndt
- Canada:
- Pauline Johnson
- Bliss Carman
- Charles Sangster
- Archibald Lampman
- Duncan Campbell Scott
- Earle Birney
- Margaret Avison
- Russia:
- Alexander Pushkin
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Fyodor Tyutchev
- Nikolai Nekrasov
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Anna Akhmatova
- Boris Pasternak
- China:
- Qu Yuan
- Li Bai
- Du Fu
- Su Shi
- Lu You
- Wen Tianxiang
- Mao Zedong