sonnet

Crucially, city staffers preserved those charming and entirely unnecessary turrets, which deserve their own sonnet, if you ask me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

She hadn’t finished the sonnet but she had finished Mack.

From "145th Street: Short Stories" by Walter Dean Myers

Today’s world-model startups want to create a control system that’s as versatile when piloting robots as today’s LLMs are when crafting text, from sonnets to software.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 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

Alas, the only books Penelope had close at hand were the cannibal book, her own book of melancholy German poetry in translation, Alexander’s book of Shakespeare sonnets, and Mr. Gibbon’s tome about the Roman Empire.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

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

From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell

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

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

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