The Sonnet

Seven centuries of the most durable form in poetry — from Shakespeare and Petrarch to the modern sonneteers who keep bending the fourteen-line frame.

Fourteen lines, infinite variety

In this collection

Showing 120 works from the first 120 entries in this collection.

• She Let them Leave their Jellies
• You Loved me not at All
• A Lover's Complaint
• I Said, Seeing how the Winter Gale Increased
• On the Wide Heath
• Northern April
• City Trees
• Travel
• The Bean-Stalk
• The Pond
• Benedetto Sia 'L Giorno E 'L Mese E L' Anno
• Since I Cannot Persuade you from this Mood
• Count them Unclean
• Io Temo Si De' Begli Occhi L' Assalto
• Campus Sonnets:
• Sonnet. to a. M. D
• To a Friend Estranged from Me
• Autumn Chant
• Sorrow
• Two Slatterns and a King
• Measure for Measure
• Henry VI, Part III
• Quel, Che D' Odore E DI Color Vincea
• The True Encounter
• Epitaph
• Not for a Nation
• Sometimes
• Witch-Wife
• Moon, that against the Lintel of the West
• Lethe
• The Fledgling
• Second April: THE POET AND HIS BOOK
• And you as Well Must Die
• Loving you Less than Life
• Gone in Good Sooth
• Second April: MARIPOSA
• Sonnet on Receiving a Favour
• Sonnet Written on the Author's Birthday
• Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell
• Mezzo Cammin
• The Evening Star
• Dante
• On Mrs. Kemble's Readings from Shakespeare
• Giotto's Tower
• 'T Is Late at Night, and in the Realm of Sleep
• Divina Commedia
• Chaucer
• Shakespeare
• Milton
• Keats
• The Sound of the Sea
• A Summer Day by the Sea
• A Shadow
• Sleep
• The Old Bridge at Florence
• Nature
• In the Churchyard at Tarrytown
• Eliot's Oak
• Venice
• The Poets
• Parker Cleaveland
• To the River Rhone
• The Three Silences of Molinos
• The Two Rivers
• St. John's, Cambridge
• Woodstock Park
• Holidays
• Wapentake
• The Broken Oar
• The Cross of Snow
• The Burial of the Poet
• Victor and Vanquished
• Memories
• President Garfield
• My Books
• Possibilities
• The Good Shepherd
• Lord, what am I, that with Unceasing Care
• The Native Land
• The Image of God
• A Quiet Life
• To Italy
• Seven Sonnets and a Canzone
• From Sunset to Star Rise
• Remember
• After Death
• Dead before Death
• Rest
• One Certainty
• The World
• A Portrait
• Once for All
• Autumn Violets
• They Desire a Better Country
• Venus' Looking-Glass
• After Communion
• If Only
• Sonnets are Full of Love, and this my Tome
• Monna Innominata: a Sonnet of Sonnets
• Touching "Never"
• If Thou Sayest, Behold, we Knew it Not
• The Thread of Life
• Later Life: a Double Sonnet of Sonnets
• Behold the Man!
• Behold a Shaking
• A Wintry Sonnet
• Resurgam
• To-Day's Burden
• To Wordsworth
• Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
• Ozymandias
• To the Nile
• Lift not the Painted Veil which those who Live
• Sonnet: England in 1819
• Sonnet: Political Greatness
• Sonnet to Byron
• Sonnet from the Italian of Dante
• Sonnet from the Italian of Cavalcanti
• Sonnet: to a Balloon Laden with Knowledge
• Sonnet: on Launching some Bottles Filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel

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