Form

Sonnets

Fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, in the Italian (8 + 6) or Shakespearean (4 + 4 + 4 + 2) pattern.

17 poems
Acquainted with the NightI have been one acquainted with the night. Robert Frost Sonnet Anthem for Doomed YouthWhat passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Wilfred Owen Sonnet Bright StarBright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— John Keats Sonnet Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet 10)Death, be not proud, though some have called thee John Donne Sonnet DesignI found a dimpled spider, fat and white, Robert Frost Sonnet How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerMuch have I travell'd in the realms of gold, John Keats Sonnet On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX)When I consider how my light is spent John Milton Sonnet OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique land Percy Bysshe Shelley Sonnet Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? William Shakespeare Sonnet Sonnet 70That thou art blam’d shall not be thy defect, William Shakespeare Sonnet Sonnet 82I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, William Shakespeare Sonnet Sonnet 9Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye, William Shakespeare Sonnet The SoldierIf I should die, think only this of me: Rupert Brooke Sonnet The World Is Too Much With UsThe world is too much with us; late and soon, William Wordsworth Sonnet What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and WhyWhat lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet When I Have Fears That I May Cease to BeWhen I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats Sonnet