Sonnet+Collection


 * __[|Sonnet Characteristics Chart]__ or __[|Interactive Sonnet Characteristics Chart]__
 * __[|Shakespearean Sonnet Checklist]__
 * Traditional Sonnets for Analysis
 * “__[|Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802]__” by William Wordsworth
 * “__[|Death, be not proud]__” (Holy Sonnet 10) by John Donne
 * “__[|How Do I Love Thee?]__” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 * “__[|Leda and the Swan]__” by William Butler Yeats
 * “__[|Mowing]__” by Robert Frost
 * “__[|My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun]__” (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare
 * “__[|The New Colossus]__” by Emma Lazarus
 * “__[|On First Looking into Chapman's Homer]__” by John Keats
 * “__[|The Oven Bird]__” by Robert Frost
 * “__[|Ozymandias]__” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * “__[|Putting in the Seed]__” by Robert Frost
 * “__[|Range-finding]__” by Robert Frost
 * “__[|Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]__” (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare
 * “__[|the sonnet-ballad]__” by Gwendolyn Brooks
 * “__[|When I Consider How My Light Is Spent]__” by John Milton
 * “__[|The world is too much with us; late and soon]__” by William Wordsworth

**The Sonnet Bank**

1. //Elizabethan and 17th Century Sonnets//

> > [|"From you have I been absent in the spring..." (Sonnet 98)] > [|"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (Sonnet 130)] > [|"Not marble nor the guilded monuments" (Sonnet 55)] > [|"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (Sonnet 18)] > [|"That time of year thou mayst in me behold" (Sonnet 73)] > [|"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" (Sonnet 30)] > [|"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" (Sonnet 29)]. > > [|A facsimile edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets]. (A copy of the 1609 Quarto, in the Huntington Library. Available through a link on [|Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet], which has additional background materials for the study of Shakespeare's sonnets.) > > [|"Like as the waves make toward the pebbl'd shore" (Sonnet 60)]. (From the[|University of Toronto English Library], a link on [|Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet].) > > [|"Let me not to the marriage of true minds" (Sonnet 116).] (From the [|Atlantic Poetry Pages], a link on [|Academy of American Poets]; if your computer supports RealAudio, you can also listen to clips of Sonnet 116 read by four contemporary poets.)
 * Sonnets by Shakespeare, from the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Academy of American Poets]:


 * Thomas Wyatt, [|"The long love that in my heart doth harbor."] (From[|Luminarium], a link from the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet]. Note: This sonnet is an English translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 109.)


 * John Milton, [|"Methought I saw my late espoused saint."] (From the [|University of Toronto English Library], a link on [|Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet]; annotated version.)


 * John Donne, [|"Death Be Not Proud" (Holy Sonnet 10)]. (From [|Academy of American Poets].)

2. //Romantic Poets//
 * Lady Mary Wroth, [|"Come darkest Night, becomming sorrow best,"] [|"Flye hence, O Joy, no longer heere abide,"]as well as a number of other sonnets by Wroth. (From the website [|One Phoenix: Four Seventeenth-Century Women Poets], a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Internet Public Library].)


 * Lord Byron,[| "On the Castle of Chillon."](From [|Bartleby.com], a link through the [|Internet Public Library].)

> > [|"When I have Fears that I may Cease to be."] (From [|Bartleby.com], a link through the [|Internet Public Library].)
 * John Keats, [|"Bright Star,"] [|"On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer."] (From[|Academy of American Poets].)


 * Percy Shelley, [|"Ozymandias"]. (From the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Romantic Circles High Schoo]l; hypertext with links to additional materials.)


 * Horace Smith, [|"On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below."]([|Romantic Circles High Schoo]l; hypertext with links to additional materials and to Shelley's famous poem on same subject.)


 * Mary Tighe, [|"Sonnet Addressed to My Mother"]; dedicatory poem for her longer allegorical work, [|Psyche]. (Electronic edition prepared by Harriet Kramer Linkin, Melissa Davis, and Jerry Parks (July, 1997); re-formatted and corrected by Harriet Kramer Linkin (September, 2001); a link on[|Internet Public Library].)


 * Helen Maria Williams, [|"Sonnet to Hope,"] [|"Sonnet to Twilight,"] and numerous other sonnets. (From [|British Women Romantic Poets], a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Romantic Circles].)

3. //British Victorian and 19th Century American Poets//
 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">William Wordsworth, [|"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"] and [|"The World Is Too Much With Us, Late and Soon."] (From [|Academy of American Poets].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Louisa Sarah Bevington, [|"I Thought I was quite happy yesterday"] and several other sonnets. (From the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Victorian Women Writers Project].)

> > [|"If Thou Must Love Me,"] [|"When our two souls stand up erect and strong,"]and several other selections from Browning's collection, //Sonnets from the Portuguese//. (From [|Bartleby.com], a link on [|Internet Public Library].)
 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elisabeth Barrett Browning, [|"How Do I Love Thee?"] and [|"My Letters! all dead paper. . ." (Sonnet XXVIII).] (From [|Academy of American Poets].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christina Rossetti, [|"REMEMBER me when I am gone away"] and [|"Aloof."](From [|Bartleby.com], a link on [|Internet Public Library].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edward Arlington Robinson, [|"Oh for a poet for a beacon bright."] (From the EDSITEment-reviewed [|American Verse Project].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emma Lazarus, [|"STILL northward is the central mount of Maine"] and [|"The New Colossus."] (From the EDSITEment-reviewed [|American Verse Project].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dante Rossetti, "A Sonnet is a moment's monument"; item number 163 in an extensive selection of Rosetti's sonnets from [|Ballads and Sonnets] (1881). (From [|The Rossetti Archive], a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Victorian Web].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [|"O River of Yesterday, with current swift,"]and other sonnets in //Another Rosary of Sonnets// (1878). (From [|American Memory Collection].)

<span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. //20th Century Americans//
 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edgar Allen Poe, [|"Sonnet to Zante"] and [|"Sonnet to Science."] (From the EDSITEment-reviewed [|American Verse Project].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Branch, Anna Hempstead (1875-1937) ,[| "A Sonnet for the Earth"] and a number of other sonnets from Branch's //Shoes that Danced and Other Poems//. (From the [|American Verse Project].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Louise Bogan, [|"Sonnet."] (From the EDSITEment-reviewed [|Modern American Poetry].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gwendolyn Brooks, [|"The Sonnet-Ballad."] (From [|Academy of American Poets].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edna St. Vincent Millay, [|"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why."] (From [|Academy of American Poets]. There is also a selection of [|six sonnets] by Millay, originally published in the volume //Renascence//; available online at the [|Women's Studies Database Reading Room], a link from[|Academy of American Poets].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert Frost, [|"Oven Bird."] (From [|Bartley.com], a link on [|Internet Public Library].)


 * <span class="content" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 15px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Countee Cullen, [|"Yet Do I Marvel"] and [|"From the Dark Tower."] (From[|Modern American Poetry].)