Poets
- Mary Robinson
- Matthew Arnold
- Maya Angelou
- Michelangelo
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Nicholas Christopher
- Nikki Giovanni
- N. Scott Momaday
- Ogden Nash
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Omar Khayyam
- Oscar Wilde
- Ovid
- Pablo Neruda
- Paul Dunbar
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Paul Verlaine
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Peter Davison
- Philip Larkin
- Phillis Wheatley
- Pindar
- Plato
- Primo Levi
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Raymond Carver
- Robert Bly
- Robert Browning
- Robert Burns
- Robert Duncan
- Robert Frost
- Robert Graves
- Robert Hass
- Robert Hayden
- Robert Herrick
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Lowell
- Robert Morgan
- Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Southey
- Robinson Jeffers
- Rod McKuen
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rupert Brooke
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sandra Cisneros