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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SONNET (AS LITERARY FORM) Matches Found: 235 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONCEPTION, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when we must descend or we must climb Last Line: Save through this painful plodding we have done. Subject(s): Science; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Scientists A DESERT DAY, by ALMA LACOCK Poem Text First Line: Heat waves above the desert gleam as bright Last Line: With worlds just cast from god's creative hand. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Heat; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A MAN AGAINST TIME, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Names of vast cities off beyond your years Last Line: But for my faith in my abandoned peers. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life A PERFECT SONNET, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a perfect sonnet of all time! Last Line: Thrills the last phrase and bids all joy rejoice. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) A PLEA FOR PEACE, by WALTIE NORRIS-OWEN Poem Text First Line: Thou, god of war, strip off your armor. When Last Line: Of peace, repent; remove earth's mourning veil! Subject(s): Peace; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A PORTRAIT IN DELIA'S PARLOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I were that portly gentleman Last Line: With gold-laced hat and golden-headed cane. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4. .. Feelings Respecting A Portrait... Subject(s): Desire; Envy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Male-female Relations A PRAYER, by VIRGINIA HAW Poem Text First Line: Please grant us wisdom, lord, to understand Last Line: That those who cause all wars are also thine! Subject(s): Prayer; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by GLADYS F. GOODFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I sometimes wonder what my life would be Last Line: Whose heart has known one day of ecstasy? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by POLLY HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: Speak not again of love - it is too late! Last Line: Love's ecstasy. A boon, my sweet? I do not dare. Subject(s): Brokers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by MARY LOUISE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: Our jealous pride has robbed us all of love Last Line: And lift our souls into the infinite. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) A SONNET, by ORANGE WILLIS WINKFIELD Poem Text First Line: Swift-footed time, let me not weep for thee Last Line: And gain by defeat the laurels I may. Subject(s): Monasteries; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Abbeys A SONNET OF SPOUSAL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Over the mountain hangs the hush of dawn Last Line: And worship in its holy evening hour! Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Maturity; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Weddings; Husbands; Wives A TREE, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: I should go walking often if I could Last Line: Where you may pierce me clear up to my heart! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) AFTER RAIN, by ANYA PETRUNKEVITCH Poem Text First Line: How good to see once thirsty soil replete Last Line: The hope of harvest plenty ... Work well done. Subject(s): Rain; Sonnet (as Literary Form) AFTER READING AN OLD COMEDY, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I close the book, thee in it, gentle mime Last Line: And laughter ringing faintly from old years. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ALL THAT'S TO OTHERS PLEASING, I DISLIKE, by CINO DA PISTOIA Poem Source Last Line: I do slaughter, there where I find death Alternate Author Name(s): Sinibaldi, Guittoncino Dei Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) APPLE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Let's let this run, then Last Line: The only worm in the apple %is that it's only an apple Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Rhyme; Sonnet (as Literary Form) AWAKEN, SOUND!, by GRACE KIESS SWIGGETT Poem Text First Line: Awaken sound! And let your moorings sway Last Line: In holy unison that will astound. Subject(s): Science; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sound; Scientists BIRTH, by MARY CATHERINE BRENNAN Poem Text First Line: At last the dread-awaited hour has come Last Line: She'd gladly brave that scorching path again. Subject(s): Birth; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Child Birth; Midwifery BROKEN, by THOMAS RUSSELL SHELTON Poem Text First Line: So many things are broken everywhere Last Line: One, whose great heart was broken for us all. Subject(s): Despair; Sonnet (as Literary Form) BURIAL AT SEA, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: In all the wide unrest that is the sea Last Line: Behind the soundless dark of final bars. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Burials; Ocean CAMEOS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The graver by apollo's shrine Last Line: The statue in the cameo! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) CHINESE PROCESSION, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaborate procession! Some one dead Last Line: With the deathless laughters, the forgotten gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) CITY SONNET, by FLORENCE DAVIDSON STROTHER Poem Text First Line: Watering plants from a wedgewood cup today Last Line: With a tear or two perhaps. Subject(s): Cities; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Urban Life CLUSTERED GRAPES, by HELEN BURWELL CHAPIN Poem Text First Line: Under the rays of late september's sun Last Line: Sink swiftly, strike and leave spilt juice to rot. Subject(s): Grapes; Sonnet (as Literary Form) CONSTANCY, by ANNE REILEY NESOM Poem Text First Line: Beneath these trees delight with wonder meets Last Line: Within their home and keep their dream of truth. Subject(s): Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form) COURT, JANUARY, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: Images on the desk, the place where I read Last Line: Only painted bread is still edible, %a thought as bitter as art Subject(s): Books; Poetry And Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Writing And Writers DEATH OF VIRGIL, by ANGELO DI COSTANZO Poem Source First Line: O you fortunate swans, who sentinel Last Line: To be by the cloaked sirens darkly snug Variant Title(s): Sonnet: The Death Of Virgi Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) DEDICATORY SONNET TO HIS WIFE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone Last Line: And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow. Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Journeys; Trips DEFINITION, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: A sonnet, fourteen lines of measured rhyme Last Line: When poets strum a bold ecstatic lute! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) DELPHINIUMS, by ALICE JOUVEAU DU BREUIL Poem Text First Line: Blue spires of thought! You are, delphiniums blue Last Line: Enforces for the straight and narrow way. Subject(s): Delphiniums; Sonnet (as Literary Form) DESIGN FOR A SONNET, by BETTY CAROTHERS DILL Poem Text First Line: How may I build a sonnet? I am told Last Line: That, never being born, has never died? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) EVEN AS WIDOWS WINK, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: Too often has the sonnet's lofty feat Last Line: To sway and skip and even dance a little. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) EXILE, by NELS JENSEN HERBY Poem Text First Line: Give me the fruit of eden's knowledge-tree Last Line: In exile glad, despising paradise. Subject(s): Exiles; Knowledge; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FEAR, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: Again, I see about me, men who fear Last Line: Have rhymed our fears with everything we do. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Fear; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FLEUR DE LIS, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: A myriad dawns are in these cups. They hold Last Line: When warming earth lifts up her fleur de lis. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FOCUSED TO REALITY, by ZOE KERNICK Poem Text First Line: Within the hidden realm of change and flow Last Line: For every well they dipped into was dry. Subject(s): Beauty; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FROM MOUNTAIN-SLOPES, by NELLIE I. CRABB Poem Text First Line: I climb through terraced gardens, see below Last Line: Demand that love prepare their day of peace. Subject(s): Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Hills; Downs (great Britain) FRUSTRATION, by HAZEL L. KOPPENHOEFER Poem Text First Line: He follows women with his eyes afire Last Line: His mother bids him put his rubbers on! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women GARMENT MAKERS, by LIDA MARIE ERWIN Poem Text First Line: Would mortal eyes had less of skill to see Last Line: Appreciating all the care we took. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers GAYETY OF FLAME: BEYOND ANGER, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why seize on words like boulders and then throw them Last Line: Splendid above the glory or the shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sun GAYETY OF FLAME: WAY OF THE SUNS, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me forever give as the sun gives Last Line: Though nothing ever thanks a sun for shining. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sun GOD RULES, by E. SERENA BOOTH Poem Text First Line: A wild destruction struck out in the west Last Line: Is calmed by him and can no longer reign. Subject(s): God; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GOLDEN SANDALS, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Women of beauty, golden-sandal shod Last Line: Dances through life on golden-sandalled feet! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) GOOD FRIDAY, by CATHERINE F. MANNING Poem Text First Line: Today he dies, and dies once more in vain Last Line: "unechoed, while their lips say, ""we believe""." Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GRANTCHESTER, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH Poem Text First Line: Like breaking surf, white clouds unfolding lie Last Line: His sowing, for man's infinite delight. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) GRAVEL PIT, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: This conclave of innumerable stones Last Line: In battlements that tower toward the sun. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Stones; Granite; Rocks GREEK SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great greek sculptor, was praxiteles Last Line: And beauty dwells upon it evermore. Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors; Sonnet (as Literary Form) HER GERMAN POLICE DOG, by RUTH DURHAM CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: So faithfully, for fifteen years or more Last Line: And watched you as your faithful spirit flew. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) IMMORTAL DREAM, by JESSIE MORRIS Poem Text First Line: Despite world chaos, certain men will dream Last Line: And depth of one man's dream that lives and sings. Subject(s): Immortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form) IMPULSE, by DOROTHY MOORE GARRISON Poem Text First Line: I know that deep beneath the weary gray Last Line: Seeking lost eldorados on the slopes. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Spring IN THE BEST LIGHT, by BLYTHE GWYN SEARS Poem Text First Line: There is a lively portrait on my wall Last Line: Condemn her act? Real love should sense no slight. Subject(s): Portraits; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ITS LENGTH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings Last Line: Fourteen good measur'd verses make a sonnet Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Upon Sonnet Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ITS ORIGIN, by NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo, at his crowded altars, tired Last Line: While I no wreaths on rebel verse bestow Alternate Author Name(s): Boileau, Nicolas Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) JANE HOOPER, by MABEL RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: Jane hooper lived and died on hollow street Last Line: Still gently shone the love that shared her crust. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women - Heroes KNOTTED OAKS, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH Poem Text First Line: How bare the knotted oak against the sky Last Line: For souls, like knotted oaks, must fight their way. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) LA VIA NUOVA: 16, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady looks so gentle and so pure Last Line: "saying for ever to the spirit, ""sigh!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LAMPS OF LABOR, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS Poem Text First Line: Tall chimneys walk in grim parade, they throng Last Line: As orisons from towering chimneys rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs. Subject(s): Lamps; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LIMPING SONNET, by MILAN DEKLEVA Poem Source First Line: A cypress wanted to be a sonnet Last Line: Of heaven, to carry on with the making of poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) LOST WORLD, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Throughout the thicket there are half-seen ruts Last Line: God grant worn souls your rediscovering! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) LOVE'S PATIENCE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I learn to lag behind my life's desire Last Line: For one brief hour to strain you to my heart! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) LOYALISTS, by MELVILLE KRESS Poem Text First Line: Out of the dismal unprogressive night Last Line: To strike you back the inquisition's way! Subject(s): Freedom; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Liberty LUCIA TRENT, by RAPHAELITA LOPEZ Poem Text First Line: You are a poet centuries to come Last Line: Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) MESSAGE OF AN ANCIENT POET, by LEONORA CLAWSON STRYKER Poem Text First Line: I watched men digging in egyptian sands Last Line: "my love, your face is like a lotus bud." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) MOSAIC, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: Since dreams must die, as fragile as the lace Last Line: That life's mosaic be my soul's reprieve. Subject(s): Life; Sonnet (as Literary Form) MY HANDS HAVE TOUCHED THE SKIES, by IDA ELAINE JAMES Poem Text First Line: Within this wood, grown crystal-white and clear Last Line: At one with peace man has not dared lay waste. Subject(s): Sky; Sonnet (as Literary Form) NEW ORLEANS HARLOT, by FRANCES LYKSETT Poem Text First Line: Envy and avarice spoke from her greedy face Last Line: Of all her coquetries, and tawdry wiles. Subject(s): New Orleans; Prostitution; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Harlots; Whores; Brothels NIGHT BLOSSOMING, by JANICE BLANCHARD Poem Text First Line: A fragrance sweeter than a young man's dreams Last Line: Surpassing any known to brides of june. Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime NO NEED OF THINGS, by ALICE TROXWELL MCCOUN Poem Text First Line: Why cling to things? When everywhere a vast Last Line: That we may soar aloft, exalting him. Subject(s): Love; Materialism; Sonnet (as Literary Form) NOCTURNAL QUESTION, by GEORGE RICHARD KAYTON Poem Text First Line: Now breaks the moon through clouds of purple haze Last Line: Wracked as they are with want and social pain . . . Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime O WICKED TYRANT, SEND ME BACK MY HEART, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All vigor and all strength, to shelter me Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OATS FOR PEGASUS, by W. C. A. WALLAR Poem Text First Line: Why mute your music, critic-frightened soul? Last Line: On strength-of-heart and blood-of-life he soars. Subject(s): Mythical Animals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fictious Animals OLD WHARVES, by BURT FRANKLIN JENNESS Poem Text First Line: A certain sadness marks old wharves which sway Last Line: Cry out remonstrance to intrusion there. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON A MAGAZINE SONNET, by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES Poem Text First Line: Scorn not the sonnet,' though its strength be sapped Last Line: Had otherwise been covered with a hundred. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON HIS 'SONNETS OF THE WINGLESS HOURS', by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrought them like a targe of hammered gold Last Line: Into the sun, and glitter through its dust. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Thought; Thinking ON LUST FOR GOLD, by AVERY L. GILES Poem Text First Line: Steam shovel, crane your neck and stuff your craw! Last Line: Then back they run for more, scorning rebirth. Subject(s): Gold; Lust; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE LOWER RHINE, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By dusseldorf the singing rhine-stream bends Last Line: And passionately soughtest thy mother-sea! Subject(s): Dusseldorf, Germany; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Poetry & Poets; Rhine (river), Europe; Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE SONNET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If by dull rhymes our english must be chain'd Last Line: She will be bound with garlands of her own. Variant Title(s): Sonnet (on The Sonnet) Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) ON THE SONNETS OF MRS. CHARLOTTE SMITH, by JANE WEST Poem Text First Line: The widow'd turtle, mourning for her love Last Line: The theme prolonging through eternal years. Alternate Author Name(s): Iliffe, Jane Subject(s): Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806); Sonnet (as Literary Form) ONCE WITH DEATH NEAR, by REBA MAXWELL AVERY Poem Text First Line: Once, with death near, I thought: what will it mean Last Line: Will live beyond the sleep that men call death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 1, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The starlight crowns thee when thou standest there Last Line: Tender thy smile and tender be thy heart. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 2, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Had I but known when first I saw thee there Last Line: Thou dark-eyed child unto a woman grown? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 3, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: What of the old love?' cries my heart to me Last Line: Found in love's bounty of the good and true? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) PAGEANT, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: The night is domed with diamonds. Moire Last Line: That healed the hearts of job and heloise. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Festivals; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Fairs; Pageants PILGRIMAGE, by HARRIET MILLS MCKAY Poem Text First Line: On lost atlantis did you call my name Last Line: That we shall meet beyond eternity. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sonnet (as Literary Form) POET PROVES THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL FROM HIS LOVE FOR DELIA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some have denied a soul! They never loved Last Line: But sure with delia I exist a soul! Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Male-female Relations POETRY, by PETER TUCCI Poem Text First Line: Poetry, said the sage of long ago Last Line: That rises from the heart and must be heard. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) PULLMAN PORTRAITS, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the green plush lane, at the forward end of the car Last Line: "are we late? How late? Do you think we can make it up?" Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) QUESTING, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: I live again that night when from our hill Last Line: We had been born to love on such a night! Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) QUESTING, by SARAH DELLA ULMER Poem Text First Line: The desert shares its loneliness with stars Last Line: In mystery -- slip noiselessly away. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form) QUINTESSENCE OF ALL THE DACTYLICS, by WILLIAM GIFFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Wearisome sonneteer, feeble and querulous Last Line: "dactylics, call;st thou 'em? -- ""god help thee, silly one!" Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Southey, Robert (1774-1843) REINCARNATION, by JOSEPHINE HERMANSON Poem Text First Line: Within the room where death has taken toll Last Line: Of death. Triumphant life takes hold anew. Subject(s): Reincarnation; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Transmigration; Pretas REMEMBERED LOVE, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Within the flitting song-life of a leaf Last Line: O love that bubbled like a rain-kissed rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) RETICENT SONNET, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A pronoun is a kind of withdrawal from sonnet (as literary Last Line: Brushing, brushing, brushing wild grapes onto truth Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language RIVERS HAVE TURNED TO GLASS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rivers have turned to glass, and brooks, because Last Line: Weeping, I cannot obtain a single drop Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SABINE STORY, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Morning unwound the sunlight's saffron spool Last Line: They struggled in a union wild and sweet. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SAME OLD SONNET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I would a moment of my time engage Last Line: That one can't fathom it with fourteen lines. Subject(s): Beauty; Creative Ability; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Male-female Relations SCORN NOW THE SONNET, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Scorn now the sonnet -- that enchanted reed Last Line: The ringing splendor of the sonneteer? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER GARDEN, by JANE RAWLINS SHEEAN Poem Text First Line: The flowers that grew in shakespeare's garden lift Last Line: That live within his tender magic song! Subject(s): Dramatists; Gardens & Gardening; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sonnet (as Literary Form) SILVER WINGS, by PHYLLIS A. LORING Poem Text First Line: O swift and graceful wings that boldly fly Last Line: Will raise courageous wings and fly today. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Wings SINGLE SONNET, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you get great stanza, you heroic mould Last Line: To prove how stronger you are than my strength Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SINGLE SONNET, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you get great stanza, you heroic mould Last Line: To prove how stronger you are than my strength Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SIXTH SYMPHONY, by LIDA MARIE ERWIN Poem Text First Line: Till now I've spent my days exploring books Last Line: Into the night, breathed deeply of the air. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Symphonies; Concerts SOCIAL JUSTICE, by ERNEST BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: There is a voice within each citizen Last Line: A world with more of love and less of gold. Subject(s): Justice; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONG POWER, by JACK GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: Come, join us comrades, let us sing tonight Last Line: So let us sing that night and storm may fail. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Songs SONNET, by WELLINGTON BREZEE Poem Text First Line: I plucked thee in life's morning, ribboned Last Line: Then shall my own keep endless tryst with me. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: A month - the first from many - now hath past Last Line: We sink indeed and never rise again. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Death; Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The SONNET, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now with the black grape's blood the barrels flow Last Line: Above the drowsy avenues and drear. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, all the dust has turned to flower Last Line: That eros fondles with a breath like fire. Subject(s): Flowers; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh friend, whose genial spirit, by the gift Last Line: The steadfast lustre of a sober joy. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The dream: to have %more time Last Line: Pulls back, shades his eyes Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poetry And Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When she walks by here Last Line: The stones themselves are burning in my shadow Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Subject(s): Prayer; Sin; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET (SUGGESTED BY THE 'PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS' BY GEORGE MEREDITH), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After apollo left admetus' gate Last Line: Had quickened their dead world? And, ah, his lute... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Apollo; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Mythology - Greek; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET DEDICATORY, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like royal galleys be my verse here written Last Line: It bears thy dear name on, o royal-hearted! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens SONNET FOR NEWSPAPERMEN, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: These lies are not my life, which is ill-met Last Line: Few men have suffered thus, or died just so. Subject(s): Newspapers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Journalism; Journalists SONNET HE WILL PRAISE HIS LADY, by GUIDO GUINIZELLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, let me praise my lady whom I love Last Line: No man could think base thoughts who looked on her Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET I AM IN LOVE, BUT AM NOT SO IN LOVE, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source Last Line: And blights the heart, and twists the face in shame Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET ISOLATE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A sonnet is a rectangle upon the page Last Line: While using only two pronouns, “I” and “not-I Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Language SONNET OF ALL HE WOULD DO, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source First Line: If I were fire, I'd burn the world away Last Line: And other folk should get the ugly ones Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET OF HIS LADY'S FACE, by JACOPO DA LENTINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her face has made my life most proud and glad Last Line: So that I count me blest a certain while Alternate Author Name(s): Notary Of Lentino; Jacopo Da Lentini Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET OF WHY HE IS UNHANGED, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source First Line: Whoever without money is in love Last Line: Meanwhile god keeps him whole and me I' the ditch Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET OF WHY HE WOULD BE A SCULLION, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI Poem Source First Line: I am so out of love through poverty Last Line: It were a thing to which one might aspire Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET REVERSED, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights Last Line: And henry, a stock-broker, doing well. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET RIGHT OFF THE BAT, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Write me a sonnet on the spot,' said she Last Line: Here's fourteen. Care to count them? And that's that Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR CHARMION, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so again an evil darkness falls Last Line: Blind milton waited for another age. Subject(s): Evil; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GESSNER, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether, like shelley, he is glorious youth Last Line: Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GRETA, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our age has caesars, though they wear silk hats Last Line: Differ only in name and class and year. Subject(s): Leadership; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn SONNET TO ARISTE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ariste! Soon to sojourn with the crowd Last Line: Who only names to praise, who only speaks to please. Subject(s): Comfort; Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Parting; Male-female Relations SONNET TO ARISTE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be his to court the muse, whose humble breast Last Line: The warbling lute to sound the soul of love? Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul SONNET TO ARISTE: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let ancient stories sound the painter's art Last Line: The charms that blossom on ariste's cheek! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Mythology - Classical; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO ARISTE: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praise thee not, ariste, that thine eye Last Line: The fading orbit smiles serenely bright. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creative Ability; Praise; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Soul; Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ruin'd relique of the ancient pile Last Line: As fancy paints the pomp that once adorn'd thy wall. Subject(s): Bards; Castles; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As slow and solemn yonder deepening knell Last Line: Heeds how the faithless bauble melts away. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed SONNET TO MARC IN MODERN SPAIN, by LORA BETH PENNINGTON Poem Text First Line: Relate to me the tale of more than war Last Line: Of soul-hewn ships, expanding, take to sea. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Spain SONNET TO MONADNOCK, by ELEANOR BECKMAN MARTIN Poem Text First Line: O sentinel of peterboro hills Last Line: Sweetened by the seasoning of years. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO MUSIC, by CHARLES B. NOBLE Poem Text First Line: Fatigued, on palsied hands we drop our head Last Line: What should we have were music left behind? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET TO REFLECTION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, busy torturer, wherefore should mine eye Last Line: In darkness glimmering to disclose a tomb. Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Regret; Self-pity; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET TO THE FIRE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friendly fire, thou blazest clear and bright Last Line: And o'er my ashes muse, as I will muse o'er thine. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Fire; Legacies; Muses; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity SONNET TO WINTER, by STELLA MUSE WHITEHEAD Poem Text First Line: For every sorrow, every faded thing Last Line: I scent the honeysuckle in the lane. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNET: 11. OUTWARD BOUND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately yon vessel sails adown the tide Last Line: Go gallant ship, and be thy fortune fair! Subject(s): Blessings; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 12. THE SPEEDY FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware a speedy friend, the arabian said Last Line: Is swept, still lingering on the boughs the last. Subject(s): Advice; Arabs; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 126, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To that fair kingdom, o my gentle lord Last Line: Her who first kindled love within my heart Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 13, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee Last Line: Or taste the old october brown and bright. Variant Title(s): Winter Subject(s): Christmas; Old Age; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter; Nativity, The SONNET: 18, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty of ladies of compassionate heart Last Line: To such a one good luck will never tarry Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Scottish Translations; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 2, by MATTEO MARIA BOIARDO Poem Source First Line: Poor drooping flowers and pallid violets Last Line: The loss that leads you with us to our end Alternate Author Name(s): Scandiano, Count Of Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 29, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair picture of my life's estate Last Line: To wreck, — and then rebuild it, stone by stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Labor & Laborers; Loss; Memory; Solitude; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers; Loneliness SONNET: 3, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to thee, bedford! Mournful is the tale Last Line: With rarely-sprinkled leaves, casting a trembling shade. Subject(s): Aging; Blessings; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 30, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You mean, my friend, you do not greatly care Last Line: Of days when I shall please your taste, my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Friendship; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 37, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through vales of thrace, peneus' stream is flowing Last Line: Stars, dawn, shall find us here together lying. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Knowledge; Mythology - Classical; Night; Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime SONNET: 4, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I should pray this lady pitiless Last Line: Hither to keep death-watch upon that heart Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNET: 6. TO A BROOK NEAR THE VILLAGE OF CORSTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As thus I bend me o'er thy babbling stream Last Line: As thy soft sounds half heard, borne on the inconstant breeze. Subject(s): Aging; Brooks; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Time; Streams; Creeks SONNET: 7. TO THE EVENING RAINBOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mild arch of promise! On the evening sky Last Line: Anticipates the realm where sorrows cease. Subject(s): Hope; Rainbows; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Optimism SONNET: 8, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With many a weary step, at length I gain Last Line: And pleasant is the way that lies before. Subject(s): Climbing; Home; Life; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Weariness; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips; Fatigue SONNET: 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is the rising morn when o'er the sky Last Line: Pour out the feelings of my burthened heart. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dawn; Happiness; Morning; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Inspiration; Creativity; Sunrise; Joy; Delight SONNET: OF THE MAKING OF MASTER MESSERIN, by RUSTICO DI FILIPPO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When god had finished master messerin Last Line: He cannot make, if that's a thing he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Rustico Barbato Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a clear well, within a little field Last Line: "a girl would be a fool to run away." Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS FOR ELLEN, by DALE ETTER Poem Text First Line: Forgotten in a sleepy western town Last Line: For ellen has no part in sorrowing. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 18. A PORTRAIT, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Full of child-thoughts, and glad at simple things Last Line: Light that transfigures many a mortal hour. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 32. 'LO! ONE CALLS', by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Oh, though the wife be close by day, by night Last Line: "passion's sweet god be with them both!"" I say." Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: BOSTON, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady somewhat dowdy as to dress Last Line: Glows sweetly through her often raised lorgnette. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF SEVEN CITIES: NEW ORLEANS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, languorous, with heavy lidded eyes Last Line: Her brain is building towers, ports and ships! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: APRIL, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: I give you meadow-lands in april, fair Last Line: The babylonian kaiser, prester john Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): April; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: DECEMBER, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: Last, for december, houses on the plain Last Line: Misers; don't let them have a chance with you Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): December; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: JANUARY, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: For january I give you vests of skins Last Line: And the free fellowship continue so Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): January; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: OCTOBER, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE Poem Source First Line: Next, for october, to some sheltered coign Last Line: Inheriting the cream of christian life Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo Subject(s): October; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SOUVENANCE DE LIEGE (NOVEMBER), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey city by the silver meuse, I fling Last Line: Of blue-and-grey behind her upturned head. Subject(s): Liege, Belgium; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SPESSE FIATE VEGNONMI A LA MENTE, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Comes often to my memory Last Line: That from the bloodstream drives my soul Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) STARKEST TRAGEDY, by VAN CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: A boy seems idle while at childish play Last Line: If men are prone to lose the boyhood call. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood SUNSHINE IN THE CUP, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER Poem Text First Line: She poured a cup of tea I still can hold Last Line: And lure the birds to venture down and sup! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Tea TENET, by GORDON LECLAIRE Poem Text First Line: We know not whence we come nor where we wend Last Line: To fugue of faith transpose the mourners' dirge! Subject(s): Death; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The THE BUD, by A. HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Out from the sodden, soft, and springtime mud Last Line: Of love come up and fumble in your throat? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE CRYSTAL CUP, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE Poem Text First Line: I had a crystal cup both old and rare Last Line: An earthen cup will serve, though once it mattered. Subject(s): Cups; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE GLEANERS, by GERTRUDE HAHN Poem Text First Line: They come at nightfall with a furtive air Last Line: But stoop and pick, and stoop and pick again. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HOUR BEFORE THE HURRICANE, by EDNA WORTHLEY UNDERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Sad, shaken, this - the field of proserpine Last Line: And storm -- and night -- blot out the carib sea. Subject(s): Hurricanes; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE HOUSE BESIDE THE STREAM, by LAUREL LAUER Poem Text First Line: Reserved, it stands beside the quiet stream Last Line: As though to linger...Loath to go away. Subject(s): Houses; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sonnet is a moment's monument Last Line: In charon's palm it pay the toll to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE INCURABLES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long up and down I paced the house of pain Last Line: Where young and old and fair and foul are one. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE MARINER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Have mercy in this dreadful hour Last Line: O god! Have mercy on the mariner! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 14. During A Tempest Subject(s): God; Mercy; Prayer; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Ocean THE ORPHARION: CUPID'S INGRATITUDE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid abroad was 'lated in the night Last Line: That sore I griev'd I welcom'd such a guest. Variant Title(s): A Night Visitor;love's Treachery Subject(s): Cupid; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Eros THE POET, by HENRY JAMES (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: When whistling winds sweep down the village street Last Line: As long as he pursues the leaves as moo cows. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POET, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: He is all utterance. His every vein Last Line: The passionate embodiment of the word. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POET'S ESTATE, by ANNIE C. BURTON Poem Text First Line: The poet roams at will where heartsease grows Last Line: On them has been bestowed apollo's kiss. Subject(s): Houses; Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE POETASTER ACCEPTS HIS VOCATION, by EDMUND KELLY JANES Poem Text First Line: If I must turn my insides all clean out Last Line: What moron worries whether words have meaning? Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE ROADS OF MEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Text First Line: The roads that men have made wind everywhere Last Line: A shining lane to join all souls to god! Subject(s): Men; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Paths; Trails THE SHIP, by LAURENCE B. RIDGELY Poem Text First Line: Strong beams, wrought out from mighty trees laid low Last Line: Speed, speed away with joy, across the plain. Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SOBBING WOMAN, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a woman sobbing in the night Last Line: That spins unseen her endless umber skein. Variant Title(s): And Women Must Weep' Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by CLIFFORD ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Love for love's sake, like art for art's, belies Last Line: Love wishes well, or it is no such thing. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by ALICE MARY DOWD Poem Text First Line: A sonnet is a cameo, outwrought Last Line: And love gives life in beauty, to abide. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by LAVINIA MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: A sonnet is too crystal-clear and deep Last Line: Then reach its goal, like life, in strong declinal. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As some old, rare and mellowed instrument Last Line: I summon back the great to earth again. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sonnet's glittering limit lies Last Line: A master's voice may shake the firmament! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sonnet is a fruit which long hath slept Last Line: In low melodious music of still hours. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pure form, that like some chalice of old Last Line: To pour them in a consecrated cup. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scorn not the sonnet; critic, you have frowned Last Line: Soul-animating strains, -- alas! Too few. Variant Title(s): "scorn Not The Sonnet; Critic, You Have Frowned""; Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET LIVES, by DUKE COLE MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: It lives - the magic lamp some genius wrought Last Line: To find one molded with less artifice. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE SONNET'S VOICE (A METRICAL LESSON BY THE SEASHORE), by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yon silvery billows breaking on the beach Last Line: Back to the deeps of life's tumultuous sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Sonnet Subject(s): Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Ocean THE SWEEPERS, by ADA GIDDINGS Poem Text First Line: The jaquaranda blued the walk and lawn Last Line: Before you blame another, try his yoke! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Labor & Laborers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Work; Workers TILL DAWN, by ANNIE C. SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: I walked through a waste with a deep pervading drear Last Line: And sweep of light with thrilling hope and day. Subject(s): Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips TO A FAMOUS POET, by ROBERT WHITAKER Poem Text First Line: Why so defiant, gifted one, of death? Last Line: Than the warm hearthside, and the open door? Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A PAINTER IN THE DAYS OF SUNG, by ENID D. JONES Poem Text First Line: Across a thousand years you mutely gaze Last Line: Pure golden are the bells her temples ring! Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A RANGE HORSE, by PATRICE CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: They viewed the long parade of yesteryear Last Line: With me beside you through eternity. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO A YOUNG GIRL WEEPING, by MURIEL DOE THURNEYSEN Poem Text First Line: Indeed there are not few of us who know Last Line: Hold healing for such bitterness of heart. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO BUCK, by VERA C. STALLKNECHT Poem Text First Line: Come, lay your velvet head across my knee Last Line: Our god will not resent your presence there. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO EDWIN MARKHAM, by RUTH LE PRADE Poem Text First Line: They would not let him pass, the gods of wrong Last Line: He goes the road where all life's martyrs glow! Subject(s): Markham, Edwin (1852-1940); Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ON HER LATER SONNETS, 1856, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if the cycle of strange years Last Line: That we without may say -- 'bless god -- and her!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO MEN ABOUT TO WAR (SYNCHRONIZED SONNET, INVENTED BY THE AUTHOR), by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: So dull at making heavens, smart at hells! Last Line: Which shall be burned away by common joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) TO R. H, by ELLA LEORA HOLDEMAN Poem Text First Line: With questing heart to drive my fainting soul Last Line: That you, its bread and wine, have never come. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) TRANSFIGURATION, by MARGIE B. BOSWELL Poem Text First Line: The faint magenta flush of dawn had turned Last Line: Of silhouettes had never paused in flight. Subject(s): Dawn; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sunrise TRIUMPHANT LIFE AGAIN, by CARMEN NELSON RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Last week I sat in thoughtful mood, alone Last Line: And gay life reigns where late death's ruin lay. Subject(s): Happiness; Nature; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Joy; Delight UNTOUCHED AND UNDEFILED, by L. KATHLEEN KITTERMAN Poem Text First Line: I have not let the flight of days erase Last Line: The melody we wove in happier days. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) UPON LOOKING INTO MY MIRROR, by MIRIAM S. LEWIS Poem Text First Line: The writing of fourteen-line sonnets Last Line: Too few are for half-quatrain! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Writing & Writers UPON SEEING NOTES MADE BY A POET, by MILDRED W. CLARK Poem Text First Line: I feel the gentle dimness of a light Last Line: And show them, stumbling, how to lift, to lift! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) VOWEL SONNET, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black, e white, I red, u green, o blue Last Line: O omega, violet ray of her eyes. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Vowels WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET?, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Human being' / has government Last Line: Compared to natural flutter Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WEIGHING ANCHOR, by MABEL F. MARTIN Poem Text First Line: Reality, unloose that steady grip Last Line: Break round her bows, and it is time for going. Subject(s): Anchors; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WHAT THE SONNET IS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen small broidered berries on the hem Last Line: For his own soul, to wear for evermore. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) WHEN EVENING FLOWS, by IDA LITTLE HALE Poem Text First Line: The slowly pacing hours have reached once more Last Line: The long cool evening flows like healing balm. Subject(s): Evening; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sunset; Twilight WHEN FREEDOM FAILS, by NINA WILLIS WALTER Poem Text First Line: The wild wind raging in the pepper trees Last Line: And dies a thousand deaths when freedom fails. Subject(s): Freedom; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Liberty WHEN I WAS A REFUGEE, by BEATRICE JEAN K. BOROFF Poem Text First Line: She clasped my hand, this good samaritan Last Line: My strength is god. He is my staff, my power. Subject(s): Kindness; Refugees; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WHY ARE WE HERE, by CAROLINE PARKER SMITH Poem Text First Line: Why are we here? None has come back to say Last Line: Why are we here? That souls bear fruit each spring. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) WILD GEESE WENT BY, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL Poem Text First Line: O you who leave all lands now grown forlorn Last Line: But march from silver waters to joys past compare! Subject(s): Geese; Sonnet (as Literary Form) WITH DEEP REPENTANCE FOR MY WASTED DAYS, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Desert me not, lean down from your high cross Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) WITHIN A DREAMER'S HAND, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: The dreamer wandering down a lonely beach Last Line: Or treads the land that hardy viking found! Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Dreams; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Nightmares WORDS, by LAURA M. BRADLEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, what are words? And what can words convey? Last Line: To catch our swift emotions on the wing. Subject(s): Language; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Words; Vocabulary YOUNG LOVE, by JOHN PROCTOR MILLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When love is young like early buds of spring Last Line: Theirs is the perfect song that life has sung. Subject(s): Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form) YPRES 1919, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS Poem Text First Line: These fields of bleak white crosses sear my eyes Last Line: And man, like gulliver, still eats the ground. Subject(s): Death; Sonnet (as Literary Form); War; Dead, The YUCCAS ON A JUNE NIGHT, by MARCUS Z. LYTLE Poem Text First Line: The parched, blue hush that cloaks a summer night Last Line: To aim his life on more sidereal slant. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Yucca Plants |
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