Examples of Christian Poets
The following list is chronological by birth year.
- Ephrem the Syrian (ca. 306 — 373)
- Gregory of Nazianzus (329 — 389)
- Romanos the Melodist(ca. 490 — 556)
- George Pisida (fl. 7th century)
- Cosmas of Maiuma (ca. 675 — 752)
- John of Damascus (ca. 676— 749)
- Theophanes the Confessor (d. ca. 850)
- John Mauropous (ca. 1000 — 1070s?)
- Symeon the New Theologian (949 — 1022)
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098 — 1179)
- Francis of Assisi (1181 — 1226)
- Clare of Assisi (1193 — 1253)
- Dante Alighieri (ca. 1265 – 1321)
- Catherine of Siena (1347 — 1380)
- Teresa of Avila (1515 — 1582)
- John of the Cross (1542 — 1591)
- John Donne (1572 – 1631)
- George Herbert (1593 — 1633)
- John Milton (1608 — 1674)
- Anne Bradstreet (1612 — 1672)
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 — c. 1757)
- Henry Vaughan (1621 — 1695)
- Angelus Silesius (1624 — 1677)
- Thomas Traherne (1636? — 1674)
- Ann Griffiths (1776 — 1805)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 – 1892)
- Emily Brontë (1818 — 1848)
- Christina Rossetti (1830 — 1894)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 — 1889)
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 — 1931)
- Gabriela Mistral (1889 — 1957)
- Ella H Scharring—Hausen (1894 — 1985)
- Czesław Miłosz (1911 — 2004)
- R.S. Thomas (1913—2000)
- Thomas Merton (1915 — 1968)
- Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)
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