How to use these sonnets

"Whoso list to hunt" / Thomas Wyatt (1557)

"Norfolk sprang thee" / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1557)

"That self same tongue" / George Gascoigne (1573)

Astrophel and Stella 45 / Sir Philip Sidney (written 1582)

Ruines of Rome 3 / Edmund Spencer, original Joachim Du Bellay (1591)

Delia / Samuel Daniel (1592)

Amoretti 78 / Edmund Spencer (1595)

Caelica 7 / Fulke Greville, Lord Broke (probably written 1590s)

Sonnet 2 / William Shakespeare (1609)

Sonnet 68 / William Shakespeare (1609)

Sonnet 116 (1609) / William Shakespeare

Phamphilia to Amphilanthus 46 / Lady Mary Wroth (1621)

"At the round earth's imagined corners" / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633)

"Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one" / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633)

"Redemption" / George Herbert (1633)

"Prayer (I)" / George Herbert (1633)

"On the late massacre in Piedmont" / John Milton (1673)

Methought I saw my late espousèd saint" / John Milton (1673)

Sappho and Phaon 24 / Mary Robinson (1796)

"Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore / Charlotte Smith (1798)

"London, 1802 / William Wordsworth (1802)

"Surprise by Joy" / William Wordsworth (1815)

"On seeing the Elgin marbles" / John Keats (1817)

"Four seasons fill the measure of the year" / John Keats (1818)

"Ozymandias" / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)

"England in 1819" / Percy Bysshe Shelley (written 1819-1820)

"Work without hope" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (written) 1825

"Swordy well" / John Clare (probably written 1820s) "Mysterious night" / Joseph Blanco White (written 1827)

"To-morrow" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, original by Lope De Vega (1833)

"The fish, the man, and the spirit" / Leigh Hunt (1836)

"The Columbine" / Jones Very (1839)

"Written in Emerson's essays" / Matthew Arnold (written 1844)

Sonnets from the Portuguese 28 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)

Sonnets, third series 6 / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (written before 1873)

"Retreat" / Charles Baudelaire (translated by Rachel Hadas)

Modern love 50 / George Meredith (1862)

"A dream" Charles / Tennyson Turner (1864)

"I know not why, but all this weary day / Henry Timrod (1867)

"Renouncement" / Alice Meynell (written 1869)

Brother and Sister 7 and 8 / George Eliot (written before 1870)

"For a Venetian pastoral" / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870)

"A superscription" / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870).

"The cross of snow" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (written 1879)

Later life 17 / Christina Rossetti (1881)

"The new Colossus" / Emma Lazarus (1883)

"As kingfishers catch fire" / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1883)

"Thou art indeed just" / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1889)

"Mt. Lykaion" / Trumbull Stickney (1905)

"Nests in Elms" / Michael Field (1908)

"Archaic Torso of Apollo" / Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Edward Snow) (1908)

"A church romance" / Thomas Hardy (1909)

"Mowing" / Robert Frost

"Bluebeard" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917)

"Firelight" / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1921)

"America" / Claude McKay (1921)

"Self-portrait" / Elinor Wylie (1922)

"On Somme"

"Nomad exquisite" / Wallace Stevens (1923)

"Leda and the swan" / William Butler Yeats (1924)

"To Emily Dickinson" / Hart Crane (written 1926)

"At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem" / Countee Cullen (1927)

"The castle of thorns" / Yvor Winters (1930)

"No swan so fine" / Marianne Moore (1932)

"Single Sonnet" / Louise Bogan (1937)

In time of war 27 / W.H. Auden (1938)

"Never again would birds' song be the same" / Robert Frost (1948)

"Epic" / Patrick Kavanagh (1951)

"The illiterate" / William Meredith (1958)

"Marsyas" / James Merrill (1959)

The sonnets 44 / Ted Berrigan (1964)

"To a winter squirrel" / Gwendolyn Brooks (1965)

"Paradise saved" / A.D. Hope (1967)

Autumn Testament 27 / James K. Baxter (1971)

"Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another" / May Swenson (1972)

"Searching" / Robert Lowell (1968; revised 1973)

"The morning moon" / Derek Walcott (1976)

"National trust" / Tony Harrison (1978)

"Sonnet" / Elizabeth Bishop (1979)

An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England 7 / Geoffrey Hill (1979)

Glanmore Sonnets I / Seamus Heaney (1979; revised 1998)

"The cormorant in its element" / Amy Clampitt (1983)

"Man walking to work" / Denis Johnson (1987)

"Jacob" / Edgar Bowers (1990)

"Strangler Fig" / Les Murray (1992)

Mythologies 3 / A.K. Ramanujan (written before 1993)

"Into the black" / John Hollander (1993)

"Necrophiliac" / Rosanna Warren (1993)

"Party dress for a first born" / Rita Dove (1995)

"In winter" / Michele Leggott (1999)

Voiced stops I / Forrest Gander (2001)

Radical Symmetry 3 / Tony Lopez (2003)

Flirrup" / Mary Dalton

"Homework. Write a sonnet. About Love?" / Alison Brackenbury (2004)

"Physicim" / Lucie Brock-Broido (2004)

"Zion" / Donald Revell (2005)

"Starlings, Broad Street, Trenton, 2003" / Paul Muldoon (2006)

"Psalm at High tide" / Martha Serpas (2007)

"Rest stop near the Italian border" / Rafael Campo (2007)

"corydon & alexis, redux" / D.A. Powell (2009).