sonnet

After cradling it the entire way home like a Faberge calf, I felt like writing a sonnet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

When you can write a sonnet but can’t spell “strawberry,” you haven’t achieved intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

Underneath her outfit, “in a little bag next to her skin,” Vaill says, “she wore his little poem,” a love sonnet he’d written her during their courtship.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

At Paul Revere Junior High, Russell won first place at a Shakespeare Festival for his sonnet recitation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025

I would write a sonnet describing the petals, white and rose-colored, that fluttered to the ground, borne upon the warming breeze.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

When he first started experimenting with AI, tech reporter Sam Schechner used it to rewrite sonnets in the style of Snoop Dogg and debate about the nature of consciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

It even has a name: The Second Immortal Dinner, in which Blundy for the first time read his corona, a poem composed as a sequence of sonnets, that had been lost long ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025

No one is writing social media sonnets about eating a yellow squash over the kitchen sink while wearing their ex’s oversized T-shirt, still scented with a perfume they stopped wearing last fall.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025

Prof Smith said: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds is now one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, but it doesn't seem to have been very popular in his own time."

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

She took us from the sonnets of Browning to the sonnets of Shakespeare, which I found difficult.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

He spoke 'and the numbers came'; he sonneted as easily as a living poet, in his Eton days, improvised Latin elegiacs and Greek hexameters.

From Ballads in Blue China by Andrew Lang

"My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose" is altogether delightful, containing as it does a suggestion of the old formalities and courtly graces of the music of Lawes, whose songs Milton sonneted.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears There is no certain princess that appears: You'll not be perjur'd; 'tis a hateful thing: Tush! none but minstrels like of sonneting.

From Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.

From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell

But Chloe had intimated that her graceful fingers were engaged with the inkpot and her head with schemes for further sonneting.

From Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

But there was other work than sonneting afoot that night, and shortly I set about it.

From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell