Poet: W
- Wailly, Amélie de (1853 - ?)
- Waller, Edmund (1606 - 1687)
- Weatherly, Frederick E. (1848 - 1929)
- Wedderburn, James, John and Robert
- Wedekind, Frank (1864 - 1918)
- Weigand, Wilhelm (1862 - 1949)
- Weisse, Christian Felix (1726 - 1804)
- Wenzig, Josef (1807 - 1876)
- Werner, Zacharias (1768 - 1823)
- Wesendonck, Mathilde (1828 - 1902)
- Wessenberg, Ignaz Heinrich Freiherr von (1774 - 1860)
- Westbrook, Arthur
- Wever, Robert
- Whitehead, William (1715 - 1785)
- Whitman, Walt (1819 - 1892)
- Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807 - 1892)
- Wilder, Victor
- Willemer, Marianne von (1784 - 1860)
- Wissman, Eduard (1824 - 1899)
- Wolff, Oskar Ludwig Bernhard (1799 - 1799)
- Wordsworth, William (1770 - 1850)
