Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Sonnet is a moment's monument
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan (September 1923)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, As kingfishers catch fire
Rainer Marie Rilke, Das I. Sonett (1922)
William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (Sept. 3, 1802)
Robert Frost, “Never again would birds' song be the same”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias (1817)
John Keats, “If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Cross of Snow
Charles Baudelaire, Correspondences
Jorge Luis Borges, Spinoza
Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella III
Brad Leithauser, “Templates in the Brain”
Lady Catherine Dyer, Elegy for Sir William Dyer (1641)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Natur und Kunst sie scheinen sich zu fliehen” (1802)
Caroline Symmons, To Her Young Friend (ca. 1800)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White (ca. 1849)
William Wordsworth, “Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room”
Christina Rossetti, Rest
George Meredith, Lucifer in Starlight
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti LXXV
Jorge Luis Borges, El Sueño
Michael Drayton, “Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part”
Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sonnet XV
William Beckford, Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick
John Addington Symonds, The Sonnet (III)
The Sonneteer, Sonnet Machine (2003)
George Santayana, “These strewn thoughts, by the mountain pathway sprung”
Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son
George Meredith, Modern Love XXX
John Milton, On his blindness
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