Italian Sonnets |
Fra Guittone d’Arezzo.
c. 1235–1294. |
Love’s Bondman |
Guido Guinicelli.
c. 1230–1276? |
Of His Lady |
To Dante |
Love and Lapo |
Whatso Is Fair |
Bonaggiunta Urbisani.
c. 1220–1290. |
Wounded of Love |
Dante Alighieri.
1265–1321. |
To Guido Cavalcanti |
To Brunetto Latini |
On the 9th June 1290 |
Love’s Messenger |
Beauty and Duty |
“Riding some days agone in piteous mood” |
“Love hath his throne within my lady’s eyes” |
“Art thou the man, who hast so often sung” |
“So gentle seems my lady and so pure” |
“That which opposes in my mind doth die” |
“Love is but one thing with the gentle heart” |
“To every heart that feels the gentle flame” |
“Ah, pilgrims! ye that, haply musing, go” |
“Beyond the sphere that hath the widest gyre” |
Cino da Pistoia.
1270–1336? |
Why Sighest Thou? |
Folgóre da San Gemignano.
c. 1270–c. 1332. |
On Knighthood (I.) |
On Knighthood (II.) |
Francesco Petrarca.
1304–1374. |
Love’s Fidelity |
Love’s Inconsistency |
She Ruled in Beauty |
Doth Any Maiden Seek |
Those Eyes, ’neath Which |
Dreams Bore My Fancy |
Oft by My Faithful Mirror |
Gentle Severity |
The Buried Heart |
Love’s Pilgrimage |
Visions of Laura |
A Stolen Glove |
Two Roses |
The Heart on the Hill |
Signs of Love |
Quitting Vaucluse |
On the Projected Crusade, 1333 |
Lonely and Pensive |
Giovanni Boccaccio.
1313–1375. |
On Dante Alighieri |
Lorenzo de’ Medici.
1449–1492. |
Violets |
Seek He Who Will |
In Tears |
Leonardo da Vinci.
1452–1519. |
Of Will, Power, and Duty |
Jacopo Sannazzaro.
1458–1530. |
Mors et Vita |
Michelangelo.
1475–1564. |
The Transfiguration of Beauty |
Thanks for a Gift |
The Garland and the Girdle |
The Doom of Beauty |
Celestial Love |
Love, the Light-Giver |
Love’s Entreaty |
On the Brink of Death |
A Prayer for Purification |
Love’s Justification |
To the Supreme Being |
Lodovico Ariosto.
1474–1533. |
In Will’s Despite |
Pietro Bembo.
1470–1547. |
“Ye Haunts Recluse” |
The Dream |
Vittoria Colonna.
1490–1547. |
The Massacre of the Innocents |
“Ye are the Branches” |
Francesco Coppetta. |
In Dreamland |
Claudio Tolomei.
1492–1556. |
The Evening Star |
Bernardo Tasso.
1493–1569. |
The Fountain |
Giovanni della Casa.
1503–1556. |
To Sleep |
Erasmo di Valvasone.
1523–1593. |
“Mormoranti Famosi” |
Torquato Tasso.
1544–1595. |
To Ferrante |
Love |
Love Unloved |
To a Mature Beauty |
Oft Have We Heard |
Giambattista Marino.
1569–1625. |
Lux Umbra Dei |
In Memoriam |
Gabriello Chiabrera.
1552–1638. |
The Italian People |
Giordano Bruno.
1548–1600. |
The Philosophic Flight |
Tommaso Campanella.
1568–1639. |
The World’s a Stage |
The Human Comedy |
The People |
To Ridolfo di Bina |
The Book of Nature |
The Modern Cupid |
The True Kings |
The Resurrection |
Salvator Rosa.
1615–1673. |
“Therefore, because Salvator is my name” |
Petrocchi. |
I Call on Time |
Giulio Bussi. |
Of Glory |
Lodovico Paterno. |
Ye Airs! Sweet Airs |
Francesco Redi.
1626–1697. |
The Garden of Earthly Love |
The Creation of My Lady |
Grief |
Love, the Musician |
The End of Earthly Love |
Vincenzo da Filicaja.
1642–1707. |
Of Providence |
Where, Italy, ’s Thine Arm? |
Buried Cities |
No, Not to Thee |
To Italy |
Giovanni Crescimbeni.
1663–1728. |
I Ask the Sky |
Giovanni Cotta.
1668–1738. |
Love’s Canticle |
Gaetana Passerini.
1654–1714. |
Genova Mia |
Giambattista Felice Zappi.
1667–1719. |
As toward the Ascrean Mount |
The Statue of Moses |
Pietro Metastasio.
1698–1782. |
O Fair Unsullied Rose |
Faustina Maratti.
c. 1679–1745. |
The Rival |
Clemente Bondi.
1742–1821. |
A Husband’s Homily |
Giovanni Battista Casti.
1724–1803. |
The Debt of the “Giuli Tre” (I.) |
The Debt of the “Giuli Tre” (II.) |
Pastorini. |
To Genoa |
Vittorelli. |
On a Nun |
Saverio Bettinelli.
1718–1808. |
Venice |
Gabriele Rossetti.
1783–1854. |
Status Quo |
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French Sonnets |
Mellin de Saint-Gelais.
c. 1491–1558. |
The Sonnet of the Mountain |
Pierre de Ronsard.
1524–1585. |
Voici Le Bois |
Page, Suy Moy |
Two Flowers I Love |
Avant qu’ Amour |
Roses |
Of His Lady’s Old Age (I.) |
Of His Lady’s Old Age (II.) |
On His Lady’s Waking |
His Lady’s Death |
His Lady’s Tomb |
The Apparition |
On His Astræa’s Arising |
Joachim du Bellay.
1552–1560. |
It Was the Time, When Rest |
On High Hill’s Top I Saw |
Happy the Man |
“Alas! where now doth scorn of fortune hide?” |
A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty |
To His Friend in Elysium |
Jacques Tahureau.
1527–1555. |
Shadows of His Lady |
Moonlight |
Louise Labé.
c. 1520–1566. |
Long as I Still |
Éstienne Jodelle.
1532–1573. |
The Ivy, Holly, and Green Bay |
Amadis Jamyn.
1538–1592. |
A Game at Football |
Philippe Desportes.
1546–1606. |
An Invitation |
The Fugitive |
Théophile de Viau.
1590–1626. |
Sleep |
Paul Scarron.
1610–1660. |
The Black Doublet |
Molière.
1622–1673. |
To Monsieur De la Mothe le Vayer, upon the Death of His Son |
Felix Arvers.
1806–1850. |
The Secret (I.) |
The Secret (II.) |
Albert Glatigny.
1839–1873. |
Before the Snow |
J. Truffier. |
The Burial of Molière |
Charles Baudelaire.
1821–1867. |
The Day’s End |
Meditation |
The Rebel |
Sully Prudhomme.
1839–1907. |
The Shadow |
Profanation |
The Struggle |
The Appointment |
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German Sonnets |
Gottfried August Bürger.
1747–1794. |
The Heart without a Home |
Johann Wofgang von Goethe.
1749–1832. |
The Maiden Speaks |
To a Golden Heart, Worn round His Neck |
Christoph August Tiedge.
1752–1841. |
In Memoriam (Theodor Körner) (I.) |
In Memoriam (Theodor Körner) (II.) |
In Memoriam (Theodor Körner) (III.) |
In Memoriam (Theodor Körner) (IV.) |
Theodor Körner.
1791–1813. |
Rauch’s Bust of Queen Louisa |
Adelbert von Chamisso.
1781–1838. |
Last Sonnet |
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim.
1719–1803. |
Cynthia Bathing |
August Graf von Platen-Hallermünde.
1796–1835. |
Fair as the Day |
Ludwig Uhland.
1787–1862. |
The Death-Angel |
The Two Maidens |
The Critic’s Conversion to the Sonnet |
Heinrich Heine.
1797–1856. |
Fresco-Sonnets to Christian S——. (I.) |
Fresco-Sonnets to Christian S——. (II.) |
To My Mother (I.) |
To My Mother (II.) |
Fain Would I Weep |
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Spanish Sonnets |
From the Romancero. |
Had I a Thousand Souls |
Tome Burguillos. |
To-morrow and To-morrow |
Mateo Vázquez de Leca.
1542?–1591. |
To Leander |
Francisco de Figueroa.
c. 1530–1588. |
On the Death of Garcilaso de la Vega, Slain in Battle |
Santa Teresa de Ávila.
1515–1582. |
’Tis Not Thy Terrors, Lord |
Francisco de Quevedo.
1580–1645. |
Rome |
Juan de Tarsis.
1582–1622. |
Thou, Who Hast Fled |
Miguel de Cervantes.
1547–1616. |
The Author to His Pen |
“In the dead silence of the peaceful night” |
“Believe me, nymph, I feel th’ impending blow” |
Last Sonnet |
Lopez Maldonado. |
The Brook |
Francisco de Aldana.
1537?–1578. |
The Native Land |
The Image of God |
Lope de Vega.
1562–1635. |
To-morrow |
The Good Shepherd |
La Vida es Sueno |
Not Winter Crystal |
Sonnet on the Sonnet |
Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola.
1559–1613. |
Truth and Beauty |
Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
1600–1681. |
These Flowers, Whose Pomp |
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Portuguese Sonnets |
Luís de Camões.
c. 1524–1580. |
An Adieu to Tagus |
On the Death of King Sebastian |
To a Fillet |
Sibella |
If Thou Indifference |
Corydon and Tityrus |
The Fisher Ionio Calls on the Waves to Restore to Him His Drowned Love |
The Shepherdess Nise |
Audaces Fortuna Juvat |
On Seeing Catharina de Athaide in Church and Losing His Heart |
The Death of Donna Catharina de Athaide |
The Eyes Where Love |
Beholding Her |
His Insufficiency of Praise |
Joaõ Xavier de Matos. |
Night-fall |
Rodriguez Lobo. |
Past Joys |
Curvo Semedo.
1766–1838. |
It Is a Fearful Night |
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage.
1765–1805. |
On Nelson |
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Swedish Sonnets |
Gustaf Rosenhane.
1619–1684. |
Deep in a Vale |
And Then I Sat Me down |
Olof Wexionius.
1656–1690. |
On the Death of a Pious Lady |
Erik Johan Stagnelius.
1793–1823. |
Hope Repulsed |
Luna |
Memory |
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Polish Sonnets |
Adam Mickiewicz.
1798–1855. |
The Rock of Aiudah |
Eastward, the Sun |
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Modern Greek Sonnets |
Aristomenês Provilegios. |
Ah! Now, at Last |
Alexandros R. Rhangabe.
1810–1892. |
Love |
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Dutch Sonnets |
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft.
1581–1647. |
To Hugo Grotius |
Friendship |
Jan van Broekhuizen. |
Beyond the Rhine |
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Latin Sonnet |
Hugo Hollandius. |
To Thomas Farnabie |