| OWH | Monogram for poet/author Holmes |
| GGB | Monogram for poet Byron |
| TSE | Monogram for poet Eliot |
| OGDENNASH | American poet, author of "Candy is dandy" (5,4) |
| LONGFELLOW | US poet, author of 'The Song of Hiawatha' (10) |
| COLERIDGE | Poet, author of the 9 19 (9) |
| PUSHKIN | Russian poet, author and dramatist (7) |
| TENNYSON | Poet, author of "The Lady of Shalott" (8) |
| HORACE | Roman poet, author of 'Ars Poetica' (6) |
| SHAKESPEARE | Playwright and poet, author of 154 sonnets (11) |
| LUCRETIUS | Roman poet, author of "De Rerum Natura" |
| OVID | Roman poet, author of 'Tristia' (4) |
| KAHLIL | Lebanese poet, author of The Prophet (6,6) |
| DANTE | Italian poet, author of Divine Comedy, d. 1321 (5) |
| ZEPHANIAH | Benjamin ?, poet; author of novels Refugee Boy and Face |
| TASSO | Torquato -, Italian poet, author of Jerusalem Delivered (5) |
| POUND | Ezra ?, American poet; author of Ripostes and The Cantos |
| LARKIN | Philip _; English poet, author of The Whitsun Weddings (6) |
| BYRON | English poet, author of Don Juan (5) |
| VIRGIL | Roman poet, author of 'Aeneid' (6) |
