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| English Sonnets |
Sir Thomas Wyatt.
1503–1542. | Brunet and Phyllis |
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
1517–1547. | Description of Spring and Summer |
| Recollections of the Time He Spent in Windsor Castle |
| Epitaph on His Squire, Thomas Clere |
| On the Life and Death of Sardanapalus |
Sir Philip Sidney.
1554–1586. | On His Having Obtained a Prize at a Tournament |
| Death an Ordinance of Nature, and Therefore Good |
| Sonnet to the Moon |
| Sonnet to Sleep |
Sir Walter Raleigh.
1554?–1618. | On Spenser’s “Faery Queen” |
Edmund Spenser.
1552?–1599. | To His Sonnets, on Sending Them to His Mistress |
| To One Who Objected to Pride in His Mistress |
| Spring Sent to His Mistress Like a Herald |
| Absence Lamented, Dove-like |
William Shakespeare.
1564–1616. | The Poet Laments to a Friend His Profession as an Actor |
| The Consciousness of Being Loved by a Noble Nature a Triumph over All Troubles |
| To His Lady upon Her Playing on the Virginals |
| What Singing Birds and Flowers Are in the Absence of the Beloved Person |
| True Love Not at the Mercy of Time and Circumstance |
| He Laments That the Countenance of Some Great and Worthy Patron Seems to Be Diverted from Him |
| Affection Most Loving When It Most Fears to Lose |
| True Self-Sacrifice of Love |
Ben Jonson.
1572–1637. | To the King’s Household on Their Withholding His Allowance of Sack |
William Drummond, of Hawthornden.
1585–1649. | Youth Unexpectedly Smitten by Love |
| Sense of the Fragility of All Things and of the Unseasonableness of Passion in Love, No Preventive of Love or Poetry |
| He Mourns the Loss of His Mistress |
| Recollections of His Lost Bride |
| To a Bird Singing |
| The Praise of a Solitary Life |
John Milton.
1608–1674. | When the Assault Was Intended to the City |
| On the Detraction Which Followed upon the Writing of Certain Treatises |
| On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
| On His Blindness |
| On the Same |
| To the Nightingale |
| Invitation to an Attic Feast |
| A Dream of His Lost Wife |
Thomas Gray.
1716–1771. | On the Death of His Friend West |
Thomas Warton.
1728–1790. | Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale’s Monasticon |
| After Seeing the Collection of Pictures at Wilton House |
| On Revisiting the River Loddon |
Samuel Jackson Pratt.
1749–1814. | Revisiting a Birthplace Which Was Not Happy |
Charlotte Smith.
1749–1806. | Poetry and Sorrow |
| Written at the Close of Spring |
| On Children at Play |
| To the Moon |
| On the Departure of the Nightingale |
| “Out of Doors While the Hamlet Is Sleeping” |
Anna Seward.
1747–1809. | Rising Early to Read, on a Winter’s Morning |
| Consolatory Power of a Love of Nature |
| No Barrenness in Nature without Beauty |
| A Stormy November Evening, Gradually Clearing up in a Mountainous Country |
Helen Maria Williams.
1761?–1827. | To Hope |
Mrs. Mary Darby Robinson.
1757?–1800. | The Temple of Chastity |
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges.
1762–1837. | Echo and Silence |
William Lisle Bowles.
1762–1850. | Church Bells |
| A Grave in a Convent |
| To Time |
| A Landscape |
| Winter Evening at Home |
| Hope |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
1772–1834. | On Leaving School |
| “With Fielding’s Amelia” |
| On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister |
| To Bowles |
| Thoughts During the Singing of a Beautiful Song |
| To the Author of “The Robbers” |
| On the Last Failure of Kosciusko |
| News of the Birth of a Child |
| A New-born Child and Its Parent |
| Farewell to Love |
| Fancy in Nubibus |
| To the River Otter |
Charles Lamb.
1775–1834. | To Miss Kelly, the Actress |
| Craving for Leisure |
| In the Album of Edith S——. |
| Written at Cambridge |
Charles Lloyd.
1775–1839. | To November |
Bernard Barton.
1784–1849. | To My Wife |
| To a Grandmother |
William Wordsworth.
1770–1850. | Pleasant, Voluntary Prison of the Sonnet |
| Placid Objects of Contemplation |
| Wanting Sleep |
| Landscape Painting |
| A Light in a Distant Window among Mountains |
| Personal Talk |
| Personal Talk (continued) |
| Personal Talk and Books |
| Personal Talk (concluded) |
| “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803” |
| A Parsonage in Oxfordshire |
| London, 1802 |
| Sonnet: “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free” |
| To the Planet Venus,—An Evening Star |
| After Visiting the Field of Waterloo |
| The Worst Pangs of Sorrow |
| Death Conquering and Death Conquered |
Robert Southey.
1774–1843. | To a Lark |
| The Ship Setting out |
| The Ship in a Storm |
| The Ship Returning |
Edward Hovell-Thurlow, Lord Thurlow.
1781–1829. | Summer |
| The Harvest Moon |
Professor John Wilson.
1785–1854. | The Evening Cloud |
| The Lake in Storm |
| The Lake in Calm |
| Nature’s Organ-Music in the Mountains |
Charles Mackay.
1814–1889. | Angelic Visitants |
| Love and Beauty |
William Sotheby.
1757–1833. | The Winter’s Morn |
Henry Kirke White.
1785–1806. | On Hearing the Sounds of an Æolian Harp |
| Retirement |
Joseph Blanco White.
1775–1841. | To Night |
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron.
1788–1824. | The Prisoner of Chillon |
| Heavenly and Earthly Beauty Combined |
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
1792–1822. | To Wordsworth |
| Political Greatness |
| Ozymandias |
| Sonnet: “Ye hasten to the dead!” |
John Keats.
1795–1821. | “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” |
| On the Grasshopper and Cricket |
| On Reading “The Flower and the Leaf” of Chaucer |
| “On Leigh Hunt’s Poem, the ‘Story of Rimini’” |
| The Lover Left by His Love at Evening |
| On Fame |
| To Sleep |
| To J. H. Reynolds |
| Answer to a Sonnet Ending Thus |
| His Last Sonnet |
James Henry Leigh Hunt.
1784–1859. | Quiet Evenings |
| To the Grasshopper and the Cricket |
| To My Wife |
| To Kosciusko |
| On a Lock of Milton’s Hair |
| The Nile |
Vincent Leigh Hunt.
1823–1852. | The Deformed Child |
Laman Blanchard.
1803–1845. | Creativeness of a Loving Eye |
| A Wish for the Unfadingness of the Loving Eye |
Hartley Coleridge.
1796–1849. | First Words of Adam |
| Sonnet to a Friend |
| “Long time a child” |
| May-time in England |
| Second Nuptials |
| A Premature Old Bachelor, He Congratulates a Bridegroom |
Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Hemans.
1793–1835. | The Lilies of the Field |
| A Vernal Thought |
| Flowers |
| The Twilight Hour |
| Sabbath Sonnet |
Thomas Hood.
1799–1845. | Written in a Volume of Shakespeare |
| To Fancy |
| To a Sleeping Child (I.) |
| To a Sleeping Child (II.) |
| Death |
| Love |
Bryan Waller Procter.
1787–1874. | Spring |
| A Still Place |
| To Adelaide |
| To Edith—1845 |
| William Henry Whitworth | The Pyramids |
| Nipped Buds Better Than Later Disappointments |
Thomas Doubleday.
1790–1870. | The Poet’s Solitude |
| Life |
| William Green | A Sultry Summer Afternoon |
| Melody and Harmony |
| Gentle Greatness Undervalued, till Lost |
| Charles Strong | “My window’s open to the evening sky” |
| Sunrise at Sea, on a Southern Misty Morning |
| A Moment of Dread in Modern Pompeii |
| Lovely Companionship |
Richard Chenevix Trench.
1807–1886. | Enjoy the Present |
| To Nicholas, Emperor of Russia |
| To Silvio Pellico |
Sir John Hanmer.
1809–1881. | America |
| Petrarca |
| The Steamboat |
| The Pine Woods |
| Singing-Birds |
| Art |
| Chaucer |
| The Merchant |
Henry Alford.
1810–1871. | “Rise, said the Master, come unto the feast” |
| Arthur Brooke | Resignation |
| Edmund Peel | To the River Tees |
| Zeal without Knowledge |
| To Winter |
Sir Aubrey de Vere.
1788–1846. | Time Misspent |
| Origin of the Soul |
| The Opening of the Tomb of Charlemagne |
| Diocletian at Salona |
| Queen Elizabeth |
David Lester Richardson.
1801–1865. | To My Twin Boys |
| Fine Weather at Sea |
| A Calm after a Gale |
| Evening at Sea |
Henry Ellison.
1811–1880. | On the Arrival of the Vessel Announcing the Settlement of Differences with America |
| Poetry a Daily Bread |
| By the Sea-shore |
| Against Pride of Intellect |
| A Privilege Worth a Hard Earning |
| A Music Yet Unknown, Remaining to Be Heard on Earth |
Egerton Webbe.
1810–1840. | To a Fog |
Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton.
1809–1885. | Happiness |
| After Revisiting Cambridge after a Long Absence |
| To Charles Lamb |
| The Forest |
Thomas Wade.
1805–1875. | Shelley and Keats, and Their “Reviewer” |
| Shelley |
| A Prophecy |
| Calvus |
| Thomas James Judkin | Special Pleading |
| “Eureka!” |
| A Character, Drawn from the Life |
| Picking and Stealing |
| George Powell Thomas | To Constance, in Absence |
| The Same Subject |
| To Fame |
| The First Railway Train in India |
| Jumnotree |
| George James De Wilde | The Water-Mill |
| Wheathamstead |
| Eydon Hall |
| On the Arrival of Spring |
| John Watson Dalby | At Berkhamstead |
| The Subject Continued |
| A Wayside Adventure |
| Same Subject Continued |
| A Sleepless Night |
| At the Aust Ferry Hotel |
| A Rencontre at Tytherington |
Alfred Tennyson.
1809–1892. | The Polish Insurrection |
| A Soldier-Priest |
| Sonnet: “O, were I loved as I desire to be” |
Charles Tennyson.
1808–1879. | The Delights of Intellect Unperturbing |
| On Seeing a Child Blush on His First View of a Corpse |
| The Rainbow |
| The Ringlet |
| On Startling Some Pigeons |
| Silkworms and Spiders |
Frederick Tennyson.
1807–1898. | The Village Benefactress |
| Her Visits to Her Mother’s Grave |
| Her Secret Grief |
| Her Sickness and Recovery |
| Her Exemption from the Common Aspects of Decay |
| A Wish for Her During the Remainder of Her Life |
Aubrey Thomas de Vere.
1814–1902. | Reasons for Being Beloved |
| Requesting to Be Judged by the Desire, and Not by the Desert |
| Love Self-Sacrificed |
| Love Vindicating Its Rejecter |
| Venice by Day |
| Venice in the Evening |
| Independence |
| Correggio’s Cupolas at Parma |
| Written While Sailing on the Gulf of Lepanto |
Edmund Ollier.
1827–1886. | On Wilson’s Picture of Solitude |
| A Dream |
| A Vision of Old Babylon |
| The Subject of Babylon Continued (I.) |
| The Subject of Babylon Continued (II.) |
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton.
1808–1877. | Sonnet: “Like an enfranchised bird, that wildly springs” |
| To My Books |
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
1806–1861. | Expressionless |
| Tears |
| Perplexed Music |
| Futurity with the Departed |
| The Poet |
| Hugh Stuart Boyd: His Blindness |
| Hugh Stuart Boyd: Legacies |
| Flush or Faunus |
| “The face of all the world is changed” |
| “What can I give thee back” |
| “Can it be right to give what I can give?” |
| “Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed” |
| “And therefore, if to love can be desert” |
| “Indeed this very love which is my boast” |
| “And wilt thou have me fashion into speech” |
David Gray.
1838–1861. | To the Mavis |
| To a Brooklet |
| To the Moon |
| Morphia |
| The Moon |
| Maidenhood |
| The Luggie |
Alexander Smith.
1830–1867. | Solitary at Christmas, but Not Sad |
| The Christmas Solitude Varied with the Christmas Streets |
| Prophetical Self-reflected Words |
William Allingham.
1824–1889. | One’s Own Mood Reflected in a Day-dream |
| Autumnal Twilight, with Friends |
| One’s Own Tombstone |
James Dodds.
1813–1874. | Craigcrook |
| John Hunter | A Replication of Rhymes |
| Elia |
| Autumn Twilight |
| Day-dawn |
John Stuart Blackie.
1809–1895. | To James Dodds and John Hunter |
| Highland Solitude |
| At Loch Ericht |
| Ben Muichdhui |
| The Statue of Albert Dürer at Nürnberg |
| Weimar |
| Berlin |
| Loch Ericht |
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| American Sonnets |
Colonel David Humphreys.
1753–1818. | The Soul |
| Addressed to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Brazil |
Richard Bingham Davis.
1771–1799. | To Music |
| To the Setting Moon |
| To Felicia, on Her Return to New York |
Robert Treat Paine.
1773–1811. | To Belinda |
| To the Country Girl |
| To Anna Louisa, on Her Ode to Fancy |
| Elegiac Sonnet |
| To Philenia, on a Stanza in Her Address to Myra |
Washington Allston.
1779–1843. | On a Falling Group, in the Last Judgment of Michael Angelo |
| On Rembrandt, Occasioned by His Picture of Jacob’s Dream |
| On Seeing the Picture of Æolus, by Pellegrino Tibaldi |
| On the Death of Coleridge |
| On a Statue of an Angel, by Benaimé, of Rome |
William Cullen Bryant.
1794–1878. | October |
| Midsummer |
| November |
| Consumption |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
1807–1882. | Autumn |
| Dante |
| The Good Shepherd |
| The Brook |
James Gates Percival.
1795–1856. | The Poet |
| Night |
| “Winter is now around me” |
| “The blue heaven spreads before me” |
Jones Very.
1813–1880. | The Robin |
| Morning |
| Thy Beauty Fades |
| The Spirit-land |
George Hill.
1796–1871. | Liberty |
| Spring |
Park Benjamin.
1809–1864. | Flowers Love’s Truest Language |
| The Stars |
| Spring |
| Twilight |
| “Is this a painting?” |
| A Storm in Autumn |
| Domestic Love |
| The Same |
| Snow |
| To a Lady |
Henry Theodore Tuckerman.
1813–1871. | Freedom |
| On a Landscape, by Backhuysen |
| To Jenny Lind |
| Desolation |
| To One Deceived |
| “O for a castle on a woodland height!” |
| “The rain-drops patter on the casement still” |
| “The buds have opened, and in leafy pride” |
| “What though our dream is broken?” |
William Gilmore Simms.
1806–1870. | Trophies—How Planted |
| Where Planted |
| The Triumph |
| Glory and Enduring Fame |
William Henry Burleigh.
1812–1871. | The Brook |
| Rain |
James Dixon.
1814–1873. | To a Robin |
| Connecticut River |
| Sunset after a Storm |
| Moonlight in June |
| To Mrs. Sigourney |
Rev. Norman Pinney.
1800–1862. | “Calm Twilight! in thy wild and stilly time” |
| “Still unto thee, my brightest, fairest, best” |
Hugh Peters.
1807–1831. | Ad Poetas |
| To the Moon |
George Henry Boker.
1823–1890. | “I do assure thee, love, each kiss of thine” |
| “I shall be faithful, though the weary years” |
| The Awaking of the Poetic Faculty |
| “Love is that orbit of the restless soul” |
| “Where lags my mistress while the drowsy year” |
| “No gentle touches of your timid hand” |
| “I have been mounted on life’s topmost wave” |
| To the Memory of M. A. R. |
| To J. M. B. |
| “No hope is mine, no comfort mine” |
| “Absence from thee is something worse than death” |
| To England |
James Russell Lowell.
1819–1891. | “I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leap” |
| To M. W., on Her Birthday |
| “Beloved! in the noisy city here” |
| To A. C. L. |
Richard Henry Wilde.
1789–1847. | To Lord Byron |
| To the Mocking-bird |
John Howard Bryant.
1807–1902. | “There is a magic in the moon’s mild ray” |
| “’T is Autumn, and my steps have led me far” |
George Henry Calvert.
1803–1889. | On the Fifty-fifth Sonnet of Shakespeare |
| To the Statue of Eve, by Powers |
Nathaniel Parker Willis.
1806–1867. | “Storm had been on the hills” |
| Acrostic Sonnet |
William Henry Cuyler Hosmer.
1814–1877. | On a Cascade near Wyoming |
| Night |
Epes Sargent.
1813–1880. | The Departure |
| The Awakening |
| Tropical Weather |
Bayard Taylor.
1825–1878. | From the North |
| To G. H. B. |
| To E. C. S. |
| To R. H. S. |
| To J. L. G. |
Richard Henry Stoddard.
1825–1903. | To Bayard Taylor |
| To Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| To James Lorimer Graham, Jr. |
| Florence Nightingale |
| Colonel Frederick Taylor |
| To Jervis McEntee, Artist |
Edmund Clarence Stedman.
1833–1908. | A Mother’s Picture |
| Hope Deferred |
| The Swallow |
| To B. T. |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
1836–1907. | Euterpe |
| Pursuit and Possession |
| Accomplices |
| Egypt |
Paul Hamilton Hayne.
1830–1886. | Ancient Fables |
| “Pent in this common sphere of sensual shows” |
| “Now, while the Rear-Guard of the flying Year” |
| October |
| Poets of the Olden Time |
| “O God! what glorious seasons bless thy world!” |
| “O Faithful heart! on balmy nights like this” |
| “An hour agone!—and prostrate Nature lay” |
| “Between the sunken sun, and the new moon” |
| “Spirits there are inwrought with vilest clay” |
Thomas Buchanan Read.
1822–1872. | The Master Bards |
| To Wordsworth |
| Indian Summer |
| Beatrice |
John R. Thompson.
1823–1873. | Sonnets to Winter. I. Old Wine to Drink |
John Esten Cooke.
1830–1886. | Sonnets to Winter. II. Old Wood to Burn |
John R. Thompson.
1823–1873. | Sonnets to Winter. III. Old Books to Read |
John Esten Cooke.
1830–1886. | Sonnets to Winter. IV. Old Friends to Love |
Henry Timrod.
1828–1867. | “At last, beloved Nature, I have met” |
| “Fate! seek me out some lake far off and lone” |
| “Are these wild thoughts thus fettered in my rhymes” |
| “Mary! I dare not call thy charms divine” |
| “Which are the clouds, and which the mountains?” |
| “Were I the Poet Laureate of the Fairies” |
William H. Timrod.
1792–1838. | An Autumnal Day in Carolina |
| The May Queen |
John Godfrey Saxe.
1816–1887. | To a Clam |
| Bereavement |
John R. Tait.
1834–1909. | To a Poet, with a Copy of Verses |
| Written at Vallombrosa |
| To ———. |
| “The years, swift waves upon the sea of Time” |
| Poets |
John James Piatt.
1835–1917. | Learning Prayers |
| C. E. Da Ponte | A Lover’s Sonnet |
| H. | “Now tripping forth, the fairy-footed Spring” |
| “Nay, chide me not that I am jealous, love” |
| “Come, dear one, smile consent!” |
| “Come, dearest, to my heart” |
Jedidiah Vincent Huntington.
1815–1862. | On Reading Bryant’s Poem of “The Winds” |
George Lunt.
1803–1885. | “O friend! whose genial spirit” |
| A Statesman |
Henry Lynden Flash.
1835?–1914. | Adele |
Albert Laighton.
1829–1887. | “Night and its dews come silently to earth” |
Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber.
1814–1890. | On a Picture of Lillie |
| Domestic |
| Church Music |
| The Snow |
| Moonshine |
| A Summer Night |
Charles Fenno Hoffman.
1806–1884. | To an Autumn Rose |
| Anonymous | “O’er the far waters floats the boatman’s song” |
| To Poesy |
| To My Wife |
| Sabbath Morning |
| To a Cloud |
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| Female Sonneteers |
Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
1806–1893. | Expressionless |
| Regrets |
| Poesy |
| An Incident |
| The Unattained |
| The Wife |
| The Dream |
| Wayfarers |
| To the Hudson |
Frances Anne Kemble.
1809–1893. | To Shakespeare |
| “What is my lady like?” |
| To the Nightingale |
| To Shakespeare |
| “By jasper founts, whose falling waters make” |
| “Spirit of all sweet sounds!” |
| “Whene’er I recollect the happy time” |
| “Like one who walketh in a plenteous land” |
Anne Charlotte Lynch.
1815–1891. | On Seeing the Ivory Statue of Christ |
| “The honey-bee, that wanders all day long” |
| “Night closes round me, and wild threatening forms” |
| “As some dark stream within a cavern’s breast” |
| “The mountain lake, o’ershadowed by the hills” |
Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale.
1788–1879. | Woman’s Empire Defined |
| The Daughter |
| The Sister |
| The Wife |
| The Mother |
| Mrs. Mary Noel McDonald | “Come with thy rose-wreaths, fair and laughing June!” |
| “I would be with thee on the sunny hills” |
| “Alas! it may not be” |
| The First Snow |
| The Frozen Stream |
| Winter Twilight |
| Night |
Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney.
1810–1889. | Fading Autumn |
| A Winter Night |
| Cultivation |
| Encouragement |
| To a Violet Found in December |
| Mrs. Anna Maria Lowell | In Absence |
Mrs. Elizabeth Jesup Eames.
1813–1856. | Twilight |
| The Moon |
| The Star |
| A Cloud |
| Mrs. Elizabeth F. Swift | To Estelle |
| “Moonlight upon the hills!” |
Mrs. Emma Catharine Embury.
1806–1863. | Confidence in Heaven |
| “He who has travelled through some weary day” |
Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman.
1803–1878. | Faded Flowers |
| Mrs. Anna Maria Wells | To a Young Mother |
Mrs. Elizabeth Fries Ellet.
1818–1877. | “Shepherd, with meek brow wreathed with blossoms sweet” |
| “O weary heart, there is a rest for thee!” |
Mrs. Alice Bradley Neal.
1828–1863. | Midnight |
| Daybreak |
| Tranquilla | “If all the world had told me thou wert false” |
| “I love thee yet!” |
| Sarah Gould | Pauline |
