Sonnet

Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,] by Karen Volkman
Nothing was ever what it claimed to be
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent,
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10) by John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
American Sonnet (10) by Wanda Coleman
our mothers wrung hell and hardtack from row
American Sonnet (35) by Wanda Coleman
boooooooo. spooky ripplings of icy waves. This
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
History by Robert Lowell
History has to live with what was here,
A Certain Slant of Sunlight by Ted Berrigan
In Africa the wine is cheap, and it is
Sonnet 6 by Rainer Maria Rilke
Is he native to this realm? No,
Sonnet 131 by Petrarch
I'd sing of Love in such a novel fashion
Silence by Thomas Hood
There is a silence where hath been no sound
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle
Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet by Eavan Boland
How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
Autumn by Richard Garcia
Both lying on our sides, making love in
Discourse by Forrest Hamer
And I said to him, we are continuous
Shawl by Albert Goldbarth
Eight hours by bus, and night
Oil & Steel by Henri Cole
My father lived in a dirty dish mausoleum
Sonnet 1 by Gwendolyn Bennett
He came in silvern armour, trimmed with black—
Sonnet 100 by Lord Brooke Fulke Greville
In night when colors all to black are cast
Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson
Eternities before the first-born day
Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] by Marilyn Hacker
You did say, need me less and I'll want you more