The Penguin book of the sonnet : 500 years of a classic tradition in English

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• Contents
  Acknowledgments
  Introduction
  Proem
  FRANCESCO PETRARCA (1304-1374):
  from Canzoniere, 132
  GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1343?-1400):
  from Troilus and Criseyde,
  Canticus Troili
  SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503?-1542)
  "The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar"
  "Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde"
  "Farewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever"
  "My galy chargèd with forgetfulnes"
  "I find no peace, and all my war is done"
  HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY (1517?-1547)"The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes"
  "Alas, so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace"
  "I never saw you, madam, lay apart"
  "Love that liveth and reigneth in my thought"
  ANNE LOCKE (1533?-1595)
  from A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a Paraphrase upon the 51 Psalme of David
  "Loe prostrate, Lorde, before thy face I lye"
  "But render me my wonted joyes againe"
  GEORGE GASCOIGNE (1539-1578)
  "That self-same tongue which first did thee entreat"
  A Sonet written in prayse of the browne beautie
  GILES FLETCHER THE ELDER (1549?-1611)
  from Licia or Poems of Love
  20. "First did I fear, when first my love began"
  EDMUND SPENSER (1552?-1599)
  from Amoretti
  1. "Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands"
  8. "More then most faire, full of the living fire"
  18. "The rolling wheele that runneth often round"
  22. "This holy season fit to fast and pray"
  23. "Penelope for her Ulisses' sake"
  30. "My love is lyke to yse, and I to fyre"
  37. "What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses"
  45. "Leave, lady, in your glasse of christall clene"
  67. "Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace"
  68. "Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day"
  71. "I joy to see how in your drawen work"
  75. "One day I wrote her name upon the strand"
  78. "Lackyng my love I go from place to place"
  79. "Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it"
  81. "Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares"
  FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE (1554-1628)
  from Cælica
  38. "Cælica, I overnight was finely used"
  39. "The nurse-life wheat, within his green husk growing"
  100. "In night when colours all to black are cast"
  SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
  from The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
  "My true love hath my hart, and I have his"
  from Astrophel and Stella
  1. "Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show"
  3. "Let daintie wits crie on the Sisters nine"
  5. "It is most true that eyes are form'd to serve"
  31. "With how sad steps, O Moone, thou climb'st the skies"
  37."My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell"
  39. "Come sleepe, O sleepe, the certaine knot of peace"
  41. "Having this day my horse, my hand, my launce"
  47. "What, have I thus betrayed my libertie?"
  49. "I on my horse, and Love on me doth trie"
  54. "Because I breathe not love to everie one"
  63. "O Grammer rules, O now your vertues show"
  71. "Who will in fairest booke of Nature know"
  73. "Love still a boy, and oft a wanton is"
  90. "Stella, thinke not that I by verse seeke fame"
  from Certaine Sonnets
  "Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust"
  SIR WALTER RALEGH (1554?-1618)
  A vision upon This Conceipt of the Faery Queene
  "A secret murder hath been done of late"
  To His Son
  THOMAS LODGE (1558-1625)
  from Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights
  35. "I hope and feare, I pray and hould my peace"
  GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559?-1634)
  from A Coronet for his Mistress Philosophy
  1. "Muses that sing Love's sensual empery"
  HENRY CONSTABLE (1562-1613)
  from Diana
  "Needs must I leave, and yet needs must I love"
  MARK ALEXANDER BOYD (1563-1601)
  Sonet ("Fra banc to banc, fra wod to wod, I rin")
  SAMUEL DANIEL (1563-1619)
  from To Delia
  34. "Looke, Delia, how wee steeme the half-blowne Rose"
  49. "Care-charmer Sleepe, sonne of the sable Night"
  50. "Let others sing of Knights and Palladines"
  MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)
  from Idea in Sixtie Three Sonnets
  5. "Nothing but No and I, and I and No"
  6. "How many paltry, foolish, painted things"
  7. "Love, in a Humor, play'd the Prodigall"
  15. His Remedie for Love
  38. "Sitting alone, Love bids me goe and write"
  61. "Since ther's no helpe, Come let us kisse and part"
  JOHN DAVIES OF HEREFORD (C. 1563?-1618)
  "Some blaze the precious beauties of their loves"
  "Although we do not all the good we love"
  The author loving these homely meats specially, viz.: cream, pancakes, buttered pippin-pies, &c.
  CHARLES BEST (D. 1602)
  Of the Moon
  WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
  from Love's Labour's Lost
  "Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye"
  from Romeo and Juliet
  "If I profane with my unworthiest hand"
  from Sonnets
  1. "From fairest creatures we desire increase"
  3. "Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest"
  13. "O, that you were yourself, but, love, you are"
  18. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
  19. "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws"
  20. "A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted"
  24. "Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled"
  27. "Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"
  29. "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes"
  53. "What is your substance, whereof are you made"
  55. "Not marble nor the gilded monuments"
  57. "Being your slave, what should I do but tend"
  60. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore"
  65. "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea"
  71. "No longer mourn for me when I am dead"
  73. "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
  94. "They that have pow'r to hurt and will do none"
  105. "Let not my love be called idolatry"
  106. "When in the chronicle of wasted time"
  116. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
  127. "In the old age black was not counted fair"
  128. "How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st"
  129. "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame"
  130. "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
  134. "So, now I have confessed that he is thine"
  138. "When my love swears that she is made of truth"
  141. "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes"
  144. "Two loves I have, of comfort and despair"
  146. "Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth"
  147. "My love is as a fever, longing still"
  151. "Love is too young to know what conscience is"
  JAMES I (1566-1625)
  An Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney
  SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)
  from Gullinge Sonnets
  5. "Mine Eye, myne eare, my will, my witt, my harte"
  "If you would know the love which I you bear"
  JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
  La Corona
  1. "Deign at my hands this crown of prayer and praise"
  2. Annunciation
  3. Nativity
  4. Temple
  5. Crucifying
  6. Resurrection
  7. Ascension
  from Holy Sonnets
  1. "Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay"
  5. "I am a little world made cunningly"
  6. "This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint"
  7. "At the round earth's imagined corners, blow"
  10. "Death be not proud, though some have called thee"
  13. "What if this present were the world's last night?"
  14. "Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you"
  18. "Show me dear Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear"
  19. "Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one"
  Sonnet. The Token
  BEN JONSON (1572?-1637)
  A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
  LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY (1583-1648)
  "Sonnet to Black It Self"
  WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649)
  "I know that all beneath the moon decays"
  "Sleep, Silence' child, sweet father of soft rest"
  LADY MARY WROTH (1587?-1652?)
  from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus
  A crowne of Sonetts dedicated to Love
  ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
  To his mistress objecting to him neither toying nor talking
  To his ever-loving God
  GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
  Two Sonnets Sent to His Mother, New-Year 1609/10
  Redemption
  Prayer
  Love (I)
  The Sonne
  The H. Scriptures (I)
  The H. Scriptures (II)
  JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
  O Nightingale!
  How Soon Hath Time
  To Mr. H. Lawes, On His Airs
  On the Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing Certain Treatises
  On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament
  To the Lord General Cromwell
  On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
  "When I consider how my light is spent"
  "Methought I saw my late espousèd Saint"
  CHARLES COTTON (1630-1687)
  Resolution in Four Sonnets, of a Poetical Question Put to Me by a Friend, Concerning Four Rural Sisters
  THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)
  On the Death of Mr. Richard West
  THOMAS WARTON, THE YOUNGER (1728-1790)
  To the River Lodon
  ANNA SEWARD (1747-1809)
  To Mr. Henry Cary, on the Publication of His Sonnets
  CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)
  To the Moon
  To Sleep
  Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening
  WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
  To the Evening Star
  ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)
  A Sonnet upon Sonnets
  THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788)
  To the Spider
  ELIZABETH COBBOLD (1767-1824)
  from Sonnets of Laura
  I. Reproach
  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
  "Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room"
  Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
  "The world is too much with us; late and soon"
  "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free"
  from Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty
  To Toussaint L'Ouverture
  London, 1802
  "It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown"
  "Surprised by joy-impatient as the wind"
  from The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets (1820)
  III. "How shall I paint thee?-Be this naked stone"
  from Ecclesiastical Sonnets in Series (1822)
  47. "Why sleeps the future, as a snake enrolled"
  "Scorn not the Sonnet; critic, you have frowned"
  SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
  To the River Otter
  To Nature
  To a Friend, Who Asked How I Felt, When the Nurse First Presented My Infant to Me
  Work Without Hope
  ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)
  from Poems on the Slave Trade
  VI. "High in the air exposed the slave is hung"
  To a Goose
  CHARLES LAMB (1775-1834)
  The Family Name
  JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE (1775-1841)
  To Night
  HORACE SMITH (1779-1849)
  Ozymandias
  EBENEZER ELLIOTT (1781-1849)
  "In these days, every mother's son or daughter"
  MARTHA HANSON (FL. 1809)
  "How proudly Man usurps the power to reign"
  MARY F. JOHNSON (FL. 1810 D. 1863)
  The Idiot Girl
  LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859)
  To the Grasshopper and the Cricket
  GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
  On Chillon
  "Rousseau-Voltaire-our Gibbon-and de Staël"
  PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
  To Wordsworth
  Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte
  Ozymandias
  England in 1819
  Ode to the West Wind
  JOHN CLARE (1793-1864)
  To Wordsworth
  Hen's Nest
  To John Clare
  The Happy Bird
  The Thrush's Nest
  JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
  On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
  To My Brothers
  "Great spirits now on earth are sojourning"
  On the Grasshopper and Cricket
  "When I have fears that I may cease to be"
  To Homer
  "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art"
  Sonnet to Sleep
  "If by dull rhymes our English must be chain'd"
  "I cry your mercy-pity-love!-aye, love"
  HARTLEY COLERIDGE (1796-1849)
  To a Friend
  "Let me not deem that I was made in vain"
  "Think upon Death, 'tis good to think of Death"
  THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES (1803-1849)
  To Night
  A Crocodile
  ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
  Finite and Infinite
  from Sonnets from the Portuguese
  I. "I thought once how Theocritus had sung"
  VII. "The face of all the world is changed, I think"
  XIII. "And wilt thou have me fashion into speech"
  XVIII. "I never gave a lock of hair away"
  XLII. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
  HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
  Chaucer
  The Cross of Snow
  CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER (1808-1879)
  Letty's Globe
  On the Eclipse of the Moon of October 1865
  EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
  To Science
  ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
  "If I were loved, as I desire to be"
  "Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free"
  ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)
  Why I Am a Liberal
  JONES VERY (1813-1880)
  Yourself
  AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE (1814-1902)
  The Sun God
  GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1880)
  from Brother and Sister
  I. "I cannot choose but think upon the time"
  XI. "School parted us; we never found again"
  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1819-1891)
  The Street
  FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN (1821-1873)
  from Sonnets, First Series
  10. "An upper chamber in a darkened house"
  28. "Not the round natural world, not the deep mind"
  from Sonnets, Second Series
  7. "His heart was in his garden; but his brain"
  29. "How oft in schoolboy-days, from the school's sway"
  MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
  Shakespeare
  West London
  SYDNEY DOBELL (1824-1874)
  The Army Surgeon
  GEORGE MEREDITH (1828-1909)
  from Modern Love
  I. "By this he knew she wept with waking eyes"
  XVII. "At dinner, she is hostess, I am host"
  XXX. "What are we first? First, animals; and next"
  XXXIV. "Madam would speak with me. So, now it comes"
  XLVII. "We saw the swallows gathering in the sky"
  XLIX. "He found her by the ocean's moaning verge"
  L. "Thus piteously Love closed what he begat"
  Lucifer in Starlight
  DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882)
  from The House of Life
  Introductory Sonnet
  XV. The Birth-Bond
  XIX. Silent Noon
  LIII. Without Her
  LXXXIII. Barren Spring
  XCVII. A Superscription
  CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
  Rest
  In an Artist's Studio
  from The Thread of Life
  "Thus am I mine own prison. Everything"
  ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (1837-1909)
  Cor Cordium
  On the Russian Persecution of the Jews
  THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)Hap
  She, to Him (I)
  She, to Him (II)
  In the Old Theatre, Fiesole (April 1887)
  At a Lunar Eclipse
  A Church Romance
  Over the Coffin
  We Are Getting to the End
  ROBERT BRIDGES (1844-1930)
  "While yet we wait for spring, and from the dry"
  GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
  God's Grandeur
  "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame"
  Spring
  The Windhover
  Pied Beauty
  The Caged Skylark
  Peace
  Felix Randal
  "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day"
  "No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief"
  "Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee"
  That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection
  "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend"
  To R. B.
  EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON (1845-1907)
  from Imaginary Sonnets
  Luther to a Bluebottle Fly (1540)
  ALICE CHRISTINA MEYNELL (1847-1922)
  To a Daisy
  EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)
  The New Colossus
  OSCAR WILDE (1856-1900)
  On the sale by auction of Keats' love letters
  Hélas
  FRANCIS THOMPSON (1859-1907)
  All's Vast
  W. B. YEATS (1865-1939)
  The Folly of Being Comforted
  The Fascination of What's Difficult
  At the Abbey Theater
  "While I, from that reed-throated whisperer"
  Leda and the Swan
  Meru
  A Crazed Girl
  High Talk
  ERNEST DOWSON (1867-1900)
  A Last Word
  EDWARD ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
  Firelight
  Calvary
  Cliff Klingenhagen
  Reuben Bright
  Credo
  Sonnet ("The master and the slave go hand in hand")
  The Sheaves
  JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)
  Mother Night
  PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)
  Robert Gould Shaw
  Douglass
  AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)
  To John Keats
  TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904)
  "Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dream"
  Six O'Clock
  RUPERT BROOKE (1875-1915)
  The Hill
  Clouds
  A Memory
  from 1914
  The Soldier
  ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON (1875-1935)
  Sonnet ("I had no thought of violets of late")
  ROBERT FROST (1875-1963)
  A Dream Pang
  Mowing
  Meeting and Passing
  Hyla Brook
  The Oven Bird
  Range-Finding
  Acquainted with the Night
  Design
  The Silken Tent
  Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
  EDWARD THOMAS (1878-1917)
  Some Eyes Condemn
  February Afternoon
  EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
  A Virginal
  ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
  from Wild Peaches
  1. "When the world turns completely upside down"
  2. "The autumn frosts will lie upon the grass"
  Sonnet ("When, in the dear beginning of the fever")
  A Lodging for the Night
  SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
  Dreamers
  Glory of Women
  On Passing the New Menin Gate
  ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
  Love the Wild Swan
  MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
  No Swan So FineEDWIN MUIR (1887-1959)
  Milton
  T. S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
  from The Dry Salvages
  JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
  Piazza Piece
  CLAUDE MCKAY (1890-1948)
  If We Must Die
  The Harlem Dancer
  America
  ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1983)
  The End of the World
  Aeterna Poetae Memoria
  EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
  "Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,-no"
  "Time does not bring relief; you all have lied"
  "If I should learn, in some quite casual way"
  "Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow"
  "Pity me not because the light of day"
  "I shall go back again to the bleak shore"
  "I, being born a woman and distressed"
  "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"
  "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows"
  from Fatal Interview (1931)
  II. "This beast that rends me in the sight of all"
  VII. "Night is my sister, and how deep in love"
  XX. "Think not, nor for a moment let your mind"
  XXX. "Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink"
  "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines"
  "Read history: so learn your place in Time"
  from Epitaph for the Race of Man (1934)
  V. "When Man is gone and only gods remain"
  WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
  Anthem for Doomed Youth
  Dulce et Decorum Est
  Futility
  DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
  "I Shall Come Back"
  e. e. cummings (1894-1962)
  "when thou hast taken thy last applause,and when"
  "my girl's tall with hard long eyes"
  "it is at moments after i have dreamed"
  "it may not always be so;and i say"
  from Sonnets-Actualities
  I. "when my love comes to see me it's"
  II. "it is funny,you will be dead some day"
  VII. "yours is the music for no instrument"
  X. "a thing most new complete fragile intense"
  XII. "my love is building a building"
  "i like my body when it is with your"
  " 'next to of course god america i"
  "if i have made,my lady,intricate"
  "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in"
  JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)
  November Cotton Flower
  ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985)
  History of the Word
  EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974)
  Vlamertinghe: Passing the Chateau, July 1917
  LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)
  Fifteenth Farewell
  Simple Autumnal
  Sonnet ("Dark, underground, is furnished with the bone")
  Single Sonnet
  Musician
  HART CRANE (1899-1932)
  To Emily Dickinson
  ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)
  from Sonnets at Christmas
  2. "Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky"
  YVOR WINTERS (1900-1968)
  To Emily Dickinson
  ROY CAMPBELL (1901-1957)
  Luis de Camões
  COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
  Yet Do I Marvel
  At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
  EDWIN DENBY (1903-1983)
  Air
  MERRILL MOORE (1903-1957)
  They Also Stand . . .
  PATRICK KAVANAUGH (1904-1967)
  Canal Bank Walk
  PHYLLIS MCGINLEY (1905-1978)
  Evening Musicale
  ELLIOTT COLEMAN (1906-1980)
  from Oedipus Sonnets
  3. "In a May evening, commuter, king"
  W. H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
  Who's Who
  Our Bias
  Montaigne
  Rimbaud
  Brussels in Winter
  from The Quest: A Sonnet Sequence
  The Door
  from In Time of War
  XII. "And the age ended, and the last deliverer died"
  XXVII. "Wandering lost upon the mountains of our choice"
  LOUIS MACNEICE (1907-1963)
  Sunday Morning
  MALCOLM LOWRY (1909-1957)
  Delirium in Vera Cruz
  JAMES REEVES (B. 1909)
  Leaving Town
  STEPHEN SPENDER (1909-1995)
  "Without that once clear aim, the path of flight"
  ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
  The Prodigal
  Sonnet ("Caught-the bubble")
  GEORGE BARKER (1913-1991)
  To My Mother
  ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)
  Those Winter Sundays
  Frederick Douglass
  MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)
  On the Death of Her Mother
  DELMORE SCHWARTZ (1913-1966)
  The Beautiful American Word, Sure
  JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)
  from Berryman's Sonnets (1967)
  7. "I've found out why, that day, that suicide"
  15. "What was Ashore, then? . . Cargoed with Forget"
  36. "Keep your eyes open when you kiss: do: when"
  107. "Darling I wait O in my upstairs box"
  115. "All we were going strong last night this time"
  WELDON KEES (1914-1955)
  For My Daughter
  WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993)
  Time
  DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
  Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred
  MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998)
  Childhood
  For Malcolm X
  GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)
  from The Children of the Poor
  1. "People who have no children can be hard"
  4. "First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string"
  from Gay Chaps at the Bar
  gay chaps at the bar
  still do I keep my look, my identity . . .
  my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell
  piano after war
  the progress
  CHARLES CAUSLEY (B. 1917)
  Autobiography
  ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
  History
  Words for Hart Crane
  Ezra Pound
  Robert Frost
  Fishnet
  Dolphin
  WILLIAM MEREDITH (B. 1919)
  The Illiterate
  AMY CLAMPITT (1920-1994)
  The Cormorant in Its Element
  HOWARD NEMEROV (1920-1991)
  A Primer of the Daily Round
  HAYDEN CARRUTH (B. 1921)
  from Sonnets
  2. "How is it, tell me, that this new self can be"
  3. "Last night, I don't know if from habit or intent"
  4. "While you stood talking at the counter, cutting"
  5. "From our very high window at the Sheraton"
  Sonnet ("Well, she told me I had an aura. 'What?' I said")
  Late Sonnet
  MARIE PONSOT (B. 1921)
  Out of Eden
  Call
  RICHARD WILBUR (B. 1921)
  Praise in Summer
  PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
  "Love, we must part now: do not let it be"
  ANTHONY HECHT (B. 1923)
  Double Sonnet
  The Feast of Stephen
  JANE COOPER (B. 1924)
  PraiseDONALD JUSTICE (B. 1925)
  The Wall
  Mrs. Snow
  Henry James by the Pacific
  JAMES K. BAXTER (1926-1972)
  from Jerusalem Sonnets
  1. "The small gray cloudy louse that nests in my beard"
  JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)
  Marsyas
  Last Words
  W. D. SNODGRASS (B. 1926)
  Mh' tiV . . . Ou''tiV
  JOHN ASHBERY (B. 1927)
  Rain Moving In
  W. S. MERWIN (B. 1927)
  Epitaph on Certain Schismatics
  Substance
  JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
  Saint Judas
  My Grandmother's Ghost
  DONALD HALL (B. 1928)
  President and Poet
  PHILIP LEVINE (B. 1928)
  Llanto
  THOM GUNN (B. 1929)
  First Meeting with a Possible Mother-in-Law
  Keats at Highgate
  JOHN HOLLANDER (B. 1929)
  from Powers of Thirteen
  "Just the right number of letters-half the alphabet"
  "That other time of day when the chiming of Thirteen"
  from The Mad Potter
  "Clay to clay: Soon I shall indeed become"
  ADRIENNE RICH (B. 1929)
  from Contradictions: Tracking Poems
  1. "Look: this is January the worst onslaught"
  14. "Lately in my dreams I hear long sentences"
  18. "The problem, unstated till now, is how"
  Final Notations
  DEREK WALCOTT (B. 1930)
  Homage to Edward Thomas
  GEOFFREY HILL (B. 1932)
  September Song
  Funeral Music
  SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
  Mayflower
  JOHN UPDIKE (B. 1932)
  Island Cities
  TED BERRIGAN (1934-1983)
  from The Sonnets
  III. "Stronger than alcohol, more great than song"
  JEAN VALENTINE (B. 1934)
  Rain
  ROBERT MEZEY (B. 1935)
  Hardy
  GRACE SCHULMAN (B. 1935)
  The Abbess of Whitby
  CHARLES WRIGHT (B. 1935)
  Composition in Grey and Pink
  JUNE JORDAN (B. 1936)
  Sunflower Sonnet Number Two
  JUDITH RODRIGUEZ (B. 1936)
  In-flight Note
  FREDERICK SEIDEL (B. 1936)
  Elms
  JOHN FULLER (B. 1937)
  from Lily and Violin
  6. "Afterwards we may not speak: piled chords"
  TONY HARRISON (B. 1937)
  from Fom The School of Eloquence
  On Not Being Milton
  LES MURRAY (B. 1938)
  Comete
  CHARLES SIMIC (B. 1938)
  History
  DICK ALLEN (B. 1939)
  Lost Love
  FRANK BIDART (B. 1939)
  Self-Portrait, 1969
  SEAMUS HEANEY (B. 1939)
  The Forge
  Act of Union
  The Seed Cutters
  A Dream of Jealousy
  from Clearances
  II. "Polished linoleum shone there. Brass taps shone"
  III. "When all the others were away at Mass"
  STANLEY PLUMLY (B. 1939)
  from Boy on the Step
  1. "He's out of breath only halfway up the hill"
  5. "None of us dies entirely-some of us, all"
  BILLY COLLINS (B. 1941)
  American Sonnet
  Duck/Rabbit
  Sonnet ("All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now")
  DOUGLAS DUNN (B. 1942)
  France
  MARILYN HACKER (B. 1942)
  Sonnet ("Love drives its rackety blue caravan")
  from Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons
  "Did you love well what very soon you left"
  from Cancer Winter
  "Syllables shaped around the darkening day's"
  "I woke up, and the surgeon said, 'You're cured' "
  "The odd and even numbers of the street"
  "At noon, an orderly wheeled me upstairs"
  DAVID HUDDLE (B. 1942)
  from Tour of Duty
  Words
  from Album
  Coda
  ANN LAUTERBACH (B. 1942)
  Aperture
  CHARLES MARTIN (B. 1942)
  Easter Sunday, 1985
  from Making Faces
  II. The End of the World
  The Philosopher's Balloon
  WILLIAM MATTHEWS (1942-1997)
  Vermin
  HENRY TAYLOR (B. 1942)
  Green Springs the Tree
  LOUISE GLÜCK (B. 1943)
  Snowdrops
  ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT (B. 1943)
  from Kyrie
  "Dear Mattie, You're sweet to write me every day"
  "When does a childhood end? Mothers"
  "This is the double bed where she'd been born"
  "Once the world had had its fill of war"
  EAVAN BOLAND (B. 1944)
  Yeats in Civil War
  The Singers
  Heroic
  J. D. MCCLATCHY (B. 1945)
  My Mammogram
  LEON STOKESBURY (B. 1945)
  To His Book
  STAR BLACK (B. 1946)
  Rilke's Letter from Rome
  Personals
  MARILYN NELSON (B. 1946)
  Balance
  Chosen
  Chopin
  BRUCE SMITH (B. 1946)
  from In My Father's House
  O My Invisible Estate
  MOLLY PEACOCK (B. 1947)
  The Lull
  Desire
  Instead of Her Own
  The Purr
  The Hunt
  HUGH SEIDMAN (B. 1947)
  14 First Sentences
  FLOYD SKLOOT (B. 1947)
  My Daughter Considers Her Body
  RACHEL HADAS (B. 1948)
  Moments of Summer
  DAVID LEHMAN (B. 1948)
  Sonnet ("No roof so poor it does not shelter")
  TIMOTHY STEELE (B. 1948)
  Summer
  AGHA SHAHID ALI (B. 1949)
  from I Dream I Am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar,
  "and when we-as if from ashes-ascend"
  "Attar-of jasmine? What was it she wore"
  DENIS JOHNSON (B. 1949)
  Sway
  Passengers
  SHEROD SANTOS (B. 1949)
  Married Love
  JULIA ALVAREZ (B. 1950)
  from 33
  "Where are the girls who were so beautiful"
  "Let's make a modern primer for our kids"
  "Ever have an older lover say: God"
  "Secretly I am building in the heart"
  DANA GIOIA (B. 1950)
  Sunday Night in Santa Rosa
  T. R. HUMMER (B. 1950)
  The Rural Carrier Stops to Kill a Nine-Foot Cottonmouth
  MEDBH MCGUCKIAN (B. 1950)
  Still Life of Eggs
  PAUL MULDOON (B. 1951)
  Why Brownlee Left
  Holy Thursday
  October 1950
  RITA DOVE (B. 1952)
  Hades' Pitch
  Sonnet in Primary Colors
  MARK JARMAN (B. 1952)
  from Unholy Sonnets
  2. "Which is the one, which of the imps inside"
  9. "Someone is always praying as the plane"
  14. "In via est cisterna"
  ELIZABETH MACKLIN (B. 1952)
  I Fail to Speak to My Earth, My Desire
  Foolishly Halved, I See You
  TOM SLEIGH (B. 1953)
  The Very End
  Eclipse
  from The Work
  4. The God
  ROSANNA WARREN (B. 1953)
  Necrophiliac
  DAVID WOJAHN (B. 1953)
  from Mystery Train: A Sequence
  1. Homage: Light from the Hall
  2. Buddy Holly Watching Rebel Without a Cause, Lubbock, Texas, 1956
  DAVID BAKER (B. 1954)
  Top of the Stove
  BRUCE BOND (B. 1954)
  Isaac
  PHILLIS LEVIN (B. 1954)
  Final Request
  JAMES MCCORKLE (B. 1954)
  Deer at the Corner of the House
  JOHN BURNSIDE (B. 1955)
  The Myth of the Twin
  CAROL ANN DUFFY (B. 1955)
  Prayer
  ROBIN ROBERTSON (B. 1955)
  Wedding the Locksmith's Daughter
  APRIL BERNARD (B. 1956)
  Sonnet in E
  HENRI COLE (B. 1956)
  Chiffon Morning
  ANNIE FINCH (B. 1956)
  My Raptor
  KARL KIRCHWEY (B. 1956)
  Zoo Story
  In Transit
  DEBORAH LASER (B. 1956)
  from Between Two Gardens
  "Night shares this day with me, is the rumpled"
  JACQUELINE OSHEROW (B. 1956)
  Sonnet for a Single Day in Autumn
  Yom Kippur Sonnet, with a Line from Lamentations
  JAMES LASDUN (B. 1958)
  Powder Compact
  Plague Years
  KATE LIGHT (B. 1960)
  Reading Someone Else's Love Poems
  Your Unconscious Speaks to My Unconscious
  And Then There Is That Incredible Moment,
  JOE BOLTON (1961-1990)
  from Style
  II. "I was surprised to find how light I felt"
  SASCHA FEINSTEIN (B. 1963)
  from Sonnets for Stan Gage (1945-1992)
  "Floodlight shadow. Your shoes are stroking"
  "With young people the heart keeps beating even"
  RAFAEL CAMPO (B. 1964)
  The Mental Status Exam
  MIKE NELSON (B. 1967)
  Light Sonnet for the Lover of a Dark
  DANIEL GUTSTEIN (B. 1968)
  What Can Disappear
  BETH ANN FENNELLY (B. 1971)
  Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding
  JASON SCHNEIDERMAN (B. 1976)
  The Disease Collector
  Appendix: The Architecture of a Sonnet
  Explanatory Notes
  Suggestions for Further Reading
  Biographical Notes
  Index of Authors
  Index of Titles and First Lines