Sappho ( 630 BC– 580 BC )
Homer ( around 800 BCE )
Rumi ( 1207–1273 )
Hafez ( 1315–1390 )
Ovid ( BC 43–18 AD, age 60)
Villon, Francois ( 1431–1463 )
Dante Alighieri ( 1265–1321 )
Shakespeare ( 1564–1616 )
Behn, Aphra ( 1640–1689 )
Basho, Matsuo ( 1644–1694 )
Voltaire ( 1694–1778 )
Goethe ( 1749–1832 )
Ghalib, Mirza ( 1797–1869 )
Pushkin, Alexander ( 1799–1837 )
Whitman, Walt ( 1819–1892 )
Arnold, Matthew ( 1822–1888 )
Dickinson, Emily ( 1830–1886 )
Richepin, Jean ( 1849–1926 )
Dunbar, Paul Laurence ( 1872–1906 )
Hesse, Hermann ( 1877–1962 )
Kazantzakis, Nikos ( 1883–1957 )
Cendrars, Blaise ( 1887–1961 )
Akhmatova, Anna ( 1889–1966 )
Hikmet, Nazim ( 1902–1963 )
Neruda, Pablo ( 1904–1973 )
Shamlou, Ahmad ( 1925–2000 )
Farrokhzad, Forough ( 1935–1967 )