The Sonneteer

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Brad Leithauser, “Templates in the Brain”

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White

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Lady Catherine Dyer, Elegy for Sir William Dyer

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Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella III

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

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William Beckford, Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick

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Edmund Spenser, Amoretti LXXV

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Robert Frost, “Never again would birds' song be the same”

Michael Drayton, “Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part”

Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son

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William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan

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Jorge Luis Borges, Spinoza

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Rainer Marie Rilke, Das I. Sonett

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Gerard Manley Hopkins, As kingfishers catch fire

William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, A Sonnet is a moment's monument

Caroline Symmons, To Her Young Friend

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George Meredith, Lucifer in Starlight

Christina Rossetti, Rest

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William Wordsworth, “Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room”

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John Keats, “How many bards gild the lapses of time”

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Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sonnet XV

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Thomas Hardy, At a Lunar Eclipse

John Milton, On his blindness

Leigh Hunt, On receiving a crown of ivy from John Keats

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Cross of Snow

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The Sonneteer, Sonnet Machine

George Santayana, “These strewn thoughts, by the mountain pathway sprung”

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John Addington Symonds, The Sonnet (III)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Natur und Kunst sie scheinen sich zu fliehen”

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Charles Baudelaire, Correspondences

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Jorge Luis Borges, El Sueño

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George Meredith, Modern Love XXX

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John Keats, “If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd”