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

The confines of a structure make your brain work in a different way: How do I get this idea across in a sonnet or a villanelle?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

Perhaps in his presence she imagined herself young and beautiful again, the sonnet lady desired by a man who could not have her.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Mr. Power’s previous books have mostly been about 18th-century writers, yet he is as much at home with recent free verse as with rhymed couplets and sonnets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

Stratford-upon-Avon born playwright Shakespeare dedicated Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece to Wriothesley, who some think was the "fair youth" to whom many of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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

We had read sonnets before, but Mrs. Finley, reading Browning’s poems, gave them new meaning.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

"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

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

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

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

From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell

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