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  1. Agustini, Delmira   Americas. Born: 1886, Died: 1914, 13 poems.
    Essentially a poet of ideas, Agustini combined deep spiritual and erotic yearnings in bold and expressive imagery. She abandoned traditional forms in her strongly controlled verses.
  2. Aldis, Dorothy Keeley   Americas. Born: 1896, Died: 1966 (modern), 10 poems.
  3. Alighieri, Dante   European. Born: 1265, Died: 1321, 25 poems.
    The essence of Dante's philosophy is that all virtues and all vices proceed from love. The "Purgatorio" shows how love is to be set in order, the "Paradiso" shows how it is rendered perfect in successive stages of illumination,
  4. Allison, Drummond   English. Born: 1921, Died: 1943, 2 poems.
  5. Angelou, Dr. Maya   Americas. Born: 1928, 24 poems.
    Dr. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature.  As a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights  activist, producer and director, she
  6. Avidan, David   Asian. Born: 1934, Died: 1995 (modern), 3 poems.
  7. Bain, Donald   English. Born: 1922, Died: 1990 (modern), 1 poems.
  8. Baker, Daniel   English. Born: 1654, Died: 1723, 35 poems.
  9. Barnes, Djuna   Americas. Born: 1892, Died: 1982 (modern), 9 poems.
  10. Bates, David   Americas. Born: 1809, Died: 1870, 3 poems.
    He contributed as a man of letters to journals and published a volume of poetry, Eolian, in 1849.
  11. Berzsenyi, Daniel   European. Born: 1776, Died: 1836, 2 poems.
  12. Blanding, Don   Americas. Born: 1894, Died: 1957 (modern), 10 poems.
    Donald Benson Blanding  was an American poet who loved the climate of and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii
  13. Bogaerd, Derek van den   English. Born: 1921, Died: 1999 (modern), 1 poems.
  14. Botez, Demonstene   European. Born: 1893, Died: 1973 (modern), 0 poems.
  15. Bourne, David   English. Born: 1921, Died: 1941, 2 poems.
  16. Brinton, Daniel   Americas. Born: 1837, Died: 1899, 46 poems.
  17. Buchanan, Dugald   English. Born: 1716, Died: 1768, 2 poems.
  18. Burliuk, David Davidovich   Asian. Born: 1882, Died: 1967 (modern), 1 poems.
  19. Burnet, Dana   Americas. Born: 1888, Died: 1962 (modern), 3 poems.
  20. Campana, Dino   European. Born: 1885, Died: 1932, 2 poems.
  21. Campbell, David   Oceania. Born: 1915, Died: 1979 (modern), 6 poems.
    David Campbell served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1939 to 1945, serving in the South Pacific, he reached the rank of Wing Commander and received the Distinguished Flying Cross with bar.
  22. Cato, Dionysius   European. 1 poems.
  23. Chanzler, Der   European. Born: 1250, Died: 1300, 1 poems.
  24. Chorbadiysky, Dimitri H   European. Born: 1890, Died: 1967 (modern), 0 poems.
  25. Clarke, Donovan   Oceania. Born: 1904, Died: 1987 (modern), 1 poems.
  26. Clarke, Dudley   English. Born: 1880, Died: 1950, 2 poems.
  27. Cooper, Dr. D.   1 poems.
    Little is known of Dr. D. Cooper other than that six songs of his survive in manuscripts and a fragment of an early printed book of the period
  28. Corkery, Daniel   Born: 1878, Died: 1964 (modern), 1 poems.
  29. Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock   English. Born: 1826, Died: 1887, 138 poems.
    Her first work to be published was a poem on the birth of the Princess Royal which appeared in the Staffordshire Advertiser in 1841
  30. Cudmore, Daniel   1 poems.
  31. D A,   English. Born: 1800, Died: 1850, 8 poems.
  32. Dandridge, Danske   Americas. Born: 1854, Died: 1914, 12 poems.
  33. Davidov, Denis Vasilyevich   Asian. Born: 1784, Died: 1839, 0 poems.
  34. Davidson, Donald Grady   Americas. Born: 1893, Died: 1968 (modern), 7 poems.
  35. Davie, Donald   English. Born: 1922, Died: 1995 (modern), 2 poems.
  36. Davis, Daniel Webster   Americas. Born: 1862, Died: 1913, 3 poems.
  37. de Galvez, Delfina Bunge   Americas. Born: 1881, Died: 1952, 0 poems.
  38. Defoe, Daniel   Born: 1660, Died: 1731, 2 poems.
    widely seen as the first British novelist.
    Defoe boosted his living with the ever-popular 'last words' of condemned criminals about to be hung, writing them himself and smuggling the pages into Newgate so they could later be handed to him in full vi
  39. Dehlvi, Daagh   Asian. Born: 1831, Died: 1905, 17 poems.
    In the history of Urdu poetry, the classical period concluded with Daagh Dehlvi. His tremendous popularity as a poet ironically coincided with the collapse of the Mughal Empire and the colonisation of the subcontinent by the British. Daagh’s ghazals
  40. Demaree, Doris   Americas. Born: 1903, Died: 1984 (modern), 42 poems.
  41. Deniehy, Daniel Henry   Oceania. Born: 1828, Died: 1865, 4 poems.
    Deniehy, a thorough republican, later became involved with free-thinkers such as Henry Parkes, Charles Harpur and the Rev. J.D. Lang. Deniehy supported Lang in his opposition to Britain's "foreign war" in the Crimea. He hoped to set up a popular part
  42. Djabayev, Djambul   European. Born: 1846, Died: 1945, 0 poems.
  43. Djivan,   European. Born: 1849, Died: 1909, 3 poems.
  44. Doig, David   English. Born: 1719, Died: 1800, 0 poems.
  45. Dolben, Digby Mackworth   English. Born: 1848, Died: 1867, 53 poems.
  46. Dosoftei,   European. Born: 1630, Died: 1723, 0 poems.
  47. Dubois, Lady Dorothy   English. Born: 1728, Died: 1774, 0 poems.
  48. Emmett, Daniel Decatur   Americas. Born: 1815, Died: 1904, 1 poems.
    is remembered today chiefly for a song he wrote in 1859 . . . Dixie. He is also known for his role in the Virginia Minstrels.
  49. Evans, Donald   Americas. Born: 1884, Died: 1921, 3 poems.
  50. Everett, David   Americas. Born: 1769, Died: 1813, 1 poems.
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