| 诗人 | shī rén | bard / poet |   |
| 骚客 | sāo kè | (literary) poet / literati | |
| 歌声 | gē shēng | singing voice / fig. original voice of a poet | |
| 细雨 | xì yǔ | fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱|李商隐 | |
| 李白 | Lǐ Bái | Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet | |
| 屈原 | Qū Yuán | Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 / Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞 | |
| 唐伯虎 | Táng Bó hǔ | Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 / (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
| 莎士比亚 | Shā shì bǐ yà | Shakespeare (name) / William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright | |
| 白居易 | Bái Jū yì | Bai Juyi (772-846), Tang dynasty poet | |
| 琵琶行 | Pí pa Xíng | Song of the Pipa Player, long poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4] | |
| 韩愈 | Hán Yù | Han Yu (768-824), Tang dynasty essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动[gu3 wen2 yun4 dong4] and neoclassical 復古|复古[fu4 gu3] movements | |
| 陶渊明 | Táo Yuān míng | Tao Yuanming (c. 365-427), Jin dynasty writer and poet | |
| 李清照 | Lǐ Qīng zhào | Li Qingzhao (1084-c. 1151), southern Song female poet | |
| 张华 | Zhāng Huà | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician / Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank / other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | |
| 朱自清 | Zhū Zì qīng | Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948), poet and essayist | |
| 但丁 | Dàn dīng | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲 | |
| 泰戈尔 | Tài gē ěr | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer | |
| 北岛 | Běi Dǎo | Bei Dao (1949-), Chinese poet | |
| 杜牧 | Dù Mù | Du Mu (803-852) Tang dynasty poet | |
| 柳宗元 | Liǔ Zōng yuán | Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 / and neoclassical 復古|复古 / movements | |
| 柳永 | Liǔ Yǒng | Liu Yong (987-1053), Song poet | |
| 曹植 | Cáo Zhí | Cao Zhi (192-232), son of Cao Cao 曹操, noted poet and calligrapher | |
| 刘禹锡 | Liú Yǔ xī | Liu Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet | |
| 普希金 | Pǔ xī jīn | Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), great Russian romantic poet | |
| 闻一多 | Wén Yī duō | Wen Yiduo (1899-1946), poet and patriotic fighter, executed by Guomindang in Kunming | |
| 孟浩然 | Mèng Hào rán | Meng Haoran (689-740), Tang Dynasty Poet | |
| 米尔顿 | Mǐ ěr dùn | Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost | |
| 黄庭坚 | Huáng Tíng jiān | Huang Tingjian (1045-1105), Song poet and calligrapher | |
| 艾青 | Aì Qīng | Ai Qing (1910-1996), Chinese poet | |
| 潘岳 | Pān Yuè | Pan Yue (247-300), later known as 潘安[Pan1 An1], prominent Western Jin poet, also famous for his good looks, such that his name became a byword for "extremely handsome man" | |
| 惠特曼 | Huì tè màn | Whitman (surname) / Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet and journalist | |
| 唐寅 | Táng Yín | Tang Bohu 唐伯虎 / or Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子 | |
| 米芾 | Mǐ Fú | Mi Fu (1051-1107), Song poet and calligrapher | |
| 贾谊 | Jiǎ Yì | Jia Yi (200-168 BC), Chinese poet and statesman of the Western Han Dynasty | |
| 李贺 | Lǐ Hè | Li He (790-816), Tang poet | |
| 席勒 | Xí lè | Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist | |
| 石涛 | Shí Tāo | Shi Tao (1642-1707), Chinese landscape painter and poet | |
| 爱默生 | ài mò shēng | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American poet, essayist, and philosopher | |
| 袁枚 | Yuán Méi | Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家 | |
| 李后主 | Lǐ Hòu zhǔ | Li Houzhu (c. 937-978), the final Southern Tang ruler (ruled 961-975) and a renowned poet / given name Li Yu 李煜 | |
| 龚自珍 | Gōng Zì zhēn | Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), Chinese man of letters, calligrapher and poet | |
| 谢灵运 | Xiè Líng yùn | Xie Lingyun (385-433) poet during Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋 | |
| 孟郊 | Mèng Jiāo | Meng Jiao (751-814), Tang dynasty essayist and poet | |
| 陈子昂 | Chén Zǐ áng | Chen Zi'ang (c. 661-702), Tang dynasty poet | |
| 汤显祖 | Tāng Xiǎn zǔ | Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), Ming poet and dramatist, author of The Peony Pavilion 牡丹亭[Mu3 dan5 Ting2] | |
| 海涅 | Hǎi niè | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German lyric poet | |
| 福克纳 | Fú kè nà | William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and poet | |
| 韦应物 | Wéi Yìng wù | Wei Yinwu (737-792), Tang dynasty poet | |
| 魏巍 | Wèi Wēi | Wei Wei (1920-2008), novelist and poet, author of award-winning novel The East 東方|东方 / about the Korean war | |
| 元好问 | Yuán Hào wèn | Yuan Haowen (1190-1257), famous poet Northern China during the Jin-Yuan transition | |
| 贺知章 | Hè Zhī zhāng | He Zhizhang (659-744), Tang dynasty poet | |
| 臧克家 | Zāng Kè jiā | Zang Kejia (1905-2004), Chinese poet | |
| 纳兰性德 | Nà lán Xìng dé | Nalan Xingde (1655-1685), Manchu ethnic Qing dynasty poet | |
| 张籍 | Zhāng Jí | Zhang Ji (767-830), Tang Dynasty poet | |
| 虞世南 | Yú Shì nán | Yu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1] | |
| 卖炭翁 | Mài Tàn Wēng | The Old Charcoal Seller, poem by Tang poet Bai Juyi 白居易[Bai2 Ju1 yi4] | |
| 纪伯伦 | Jì bó lún | Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, writer and artist | |
| 庾信 | Yǔ Xìn | Yu Xin (513-581), poet from Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝 / and author of Lament for the South 哀江南賦|哀江南赋 | |
| 郭小川 | Guō Xiǎo chuān | Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution | |
| 林逋 | Lín Bū | Lin Bu (967-1028), Northern Song poet | |
| 张若虚 | Zhāng Ruò xū | Zhang Ruoxu (c. 660-720), Tang dynasty poet, author of yuefu poem River on a spring night 春江花月夜 | |
| 庞德 | Páng Dé | Pang De (-219), general of Cao Wei at the start of the Three Kingdoms period, victor over Guan Yu 關羽|关羽 / Pound (name) / Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet and translator | |
| 曹操 | Cáo Cāo | Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕 / the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义 | |
| 维吉尔 | Wéi jí ěr | Virgil or Vergilius (70-19 BC), Roman poet and author of the Aeneid 埃涅阿斯紀|埃涅阿斯纪[Ai1 nie4 a1 si1 Ji4] | |
| 拜伦 | Bài lún | George Byron (1788-1824), English poet | |
| 乔叟 | Qiáo sǒu | Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[Kan3 te4 bo2 lei2 Gu4 shi4 Ji2] | |
| 贺拉斯 | hè lā sī | Horace, full Latin name Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC), Roman poet | |
| 左思 | Zuǒ Sī | Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet | |
| 华兹华斯 | huá zī huá sī | surname Wordsworth / William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English romantic poet | |
| 冰心 | Bīng Xīn | Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer | |
| 但尼生 | Dàn ní shēng | Tennyson (name) / Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet | |
| 杜甫 | Dù Fǔ | Du Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet | |
| 黄鹤楼 | Huáng hè Lóu | Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985 / favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes / Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢[Cui1 Hao4], with theme 'the past will never return' / one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓|岳阳楼[Yue4 yang2 Lou2] in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣|滕王阁[Teng2 wang2 Ge2] in Nanchang, Jiangxi | |
| 孔尚任 | Kǒng Shàng rèn | Kong Shangren (1648-1718), Qing dramatist and poet, author of The Peach Blossom Fan 桃花扇[Tao2 hua1 Shan4] | |
| 李煜 | Lǐ Yù | Li Yu (c. 937-978), given name of the final ruler of Tang of the Five Southern dynasties Li Houzhu 李後主|李后主, a renowned poet | |
| 王维 | Wáng Wéi | Wang Wei (701-761), Tang Dynasty poet | |
| 徐志摩 | Xú Zhì mó | Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), writer and poet | |
| 郁达夫 | Yù Dá fū | Yu Dafu (1896-1945), poet and novelist | |
| 袁宏道 | Yuán Hóng dào | Yuan Hongdao (1568-1610), Ming dynasty poet and travel writer | |
| 张旭 | Zhāng Xù | Zhang Xu (probably early 8th century), Tang dynasty poet and calligrapher, most famous for his grass script 草書|草书 | |
| 丘逢甲 | Qiū Féng jiǎ | Qiu Fengjia or Ch'iu Feng-chia (1864-1912), Taiwanese Hakkanese poet | |
| 俞文豹 | Yú Wén bào | Yu Wenbao (lived around 1240), prolific Song dynasty poet | |
| 吴嘉经 | Wú Jiā jīng | Wu Jiajing (1618-1684), early Qing dynasty poet | |
| 吕岩 | Lu:3 Yán | Lü / Yan (lived c. 874), Tang dynasty poet | |
| 品达 | Pǐn dá | Pindar, Greek poet | |
| 唐棣 | táng dì | shadbush or shadberry (genus Amelanchier) / painter and poet of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) | |
| 埃德加·爱伦·坡 | | Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American poet and novelist | |
| 威廉·福克纳 | | William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and poet | |
| 孙毓棠 | Sūn Yù táng | Sun Yutang (1911-1985), historian and poet, studied in Tokyo, Oxford and Harvard | |
| 孙诛 | Sūn Zhū | Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首[Tang2 shi1 San1 bai3 Shou3] / also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士[Heng2 tang2 Tui4 shi4] | |
| 宋祁 | Sòng Qí | Song Qi (998-1061), Song dynasty poet and writer, coauthor of History of the Later Tang Dynasty 新唐書|新唐书 | |
| 寇准 | Kòu Zhǔn | Kou Zhun (961-1023), Northern Song politician and poet | |
| 崔颢 | Cuī Hào | Cui Hao (-754), Tang dynasty poet and author of poem Yellow Crane Tower 黃鶴樓|黄鹤楼 | |
| 张怡 | Zhāng yí | Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing | |
| 爱留根纳 | Aì liú gēn nà | Eriugena, John Scottus (c. 810-880) Irish poet, theologian, and philosopher of Neoplatonism | |
| 扬雄 | Yáng Xióng | Yang Xiong (53 BC-18 AD), scholar, poet and lexicographer, author of the first Chinese dialect dictionary 方言[Fang1 yan2] | |
| 文天祥 | Wén Tiān xiáng | Wen Tianxiang (1236-1283), Song dynasty politician and poet, folk hero in resisting Mongol invasion in Jiangxi in 1275 | |
| 李商隐 | Lǐ Shāng yǐn | Li Shangyin (c. 813-858), Tang poet | |
| 李敏勇 | Lǐ Mǐn yǒng | Li Minyong (1947-), Taiwanese poet | |
| 李格非 | Lǐ Gé fēi | Li Gefei (active c. 1090), Northern Song writer and father of southern Song female poet Li Qingzhao 李清照 | |
