"The cross of snow" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (written 1879)
Later life 17 / Christina Rossetti (1881)
"The new Colossus" / Emma Lazarus (1883)
"As kingfishers catch fire" / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1883)
"Thou art indeed just" / Gerard Manley Hopkins (written 1889)
"Mt. Lykaion" / Trumbull Stickney (1905)
"Nests in Elms" / Michael Field (1908)
"Archaic Torso of Apollo" / Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Edward Snow) (1908)
"A church romance" / Thomas Hardy (1909)
"Bluebeard" / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917)
"Firelight" / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1921)
"America" / Claude McKay (1921)
"Self-portrait" / Elinor Wylie (1922)
"Nomad exquisite" / Wallace Stevens (1923)
"Leda and the swan" / William Butler Yeats (1924)
"To Emily Dickinson" / Hart Crane (written 1926)
"At the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem" / Countee Cullen (1927)
"The castle of thorns" / Yvor Winters (1930)
"No swan so fine" / Marianne Moore (1932)
"Single Sonnet" / Louise Bogan (1937)
In time of war 27 / W. H. Auden (1938)
"Never again would birds' song be the same" / Robert Frost (1948)
"Epic" / Patrick Kavanagh (1951)
"The illiterate" / William Meredith (1958)
"Marsyas" / James Merrill (1959)
The sonnets 44 / Ted Berrigan (1964)
"To a winter squirrel" / Gwendolyn Brooks (1965)
"Paradise saved" / A.D. Hope (1967)
Autumn Testament 27 / James K. Baxter (1971)
"Staring at the sea on the day of the death of another" / May Swenson (1972)
"Searching" / Robert Lowell (1968; revised 1973)
"The morning moon" / Derek Walcott (1976)
"National trust" / Tony Harrison (1978)
"Sonnet" / Elizabeth Bishop (1979)
An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England 7 / Geoffrey Hill (1979)
Glanmore Sonnets I / Seamus Heaney (1979; revised 1998)
"The cormorant in its element" / Amy Clampitt (1983)
"Man walking to work" / Denis Johnson (1987)
"Jacob" / Edgar Bowers (1990)
"Strangler Fig" / Les Murray (1992)
Mythologies 3 / A. K. Ramanujan (written before 1993)
"Into the black" / John Hollander (1993)
"Necrophiliac" / Rosanna Warren (1993)
"Party dress for a first born" / Rita Dove (1995)
"In winter" / Michele Leggott (1999)
Voiced stops I / Forrest Gander (2001)
Radical Symmetry 3 / Tony Lopez (2003)
"Homework. Write a sonnet. About Love?" / Alison Brackenbury (2004)
"Physicim" / Lucie Brock-Broido (2004)
"Zion" / Donald Revell (2005)
"Starlings, Broad Street, Trenton, 2003" / Paul Muldoon (2006)
"Pslam at High tide" / Martha Serpas (2007)
"Rest stop near the Italian border" / Rafael Campo (2007)
"corydon & alexis, redux" / D. A. Powell (2009).
How to use these sonnets -- "Whoso list to hunt" / Thomas Wyatt (1557) -- "Norfolk sprang thee" / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1557) -- "That self same tongue" / George Gascoigne (1573) -- Astrophel and Stella 45 / Sir Philip Sidney (written 1582) -- Ruines of Rome 3 / Edmund Spencer, original Joachim Du Bellay (1591) -- Delia / Samuel Daniel (1592) -- Amoretti 78 / Edmund Spencer (1595) -- Caelica 7 / Fulke Greville, Lord Broke (probably written 1590s) -- Sonnet 2 / William Shakespeare (1609) -- Sonnet 68 / William Shakespeare (1609) -- Sonnett 116 (1609) / William Shakespeare -- Phamphilia to Amphilanthus 46 / Lady Mary Wroth (1621) -- "At the round earth's imagined corners" / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633) -- "Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one" / John Donne (probably written 1615-1633) -- "Redemption" / George Herbert (1633) -- "Prayer (I)" / George Herbert (1633) -- "On the late massacre in Piedmont" / John Milton (1673) -- Methought I saw my late espousèd saint" / John Milton (1673) -- Sappho and Phaon 24 / Mary Robinson (1796) -- "Huge vapour brood above the clifted shore / Charlotte Smith (1798) -- "London, 1802 / William Wordsworth (1802) -- "Surprise by Joy" / William Wordsworth (1815) -- "On seeing the Elgin marbles" / John Keats (1817) -- "Four seasons fill the measure of the year" / John Keats (1818) -- "Ozymandias" / Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818) -- "England in 1819" / Percy Bysshe Shelley (written 1819-1820) -- "Work without hope" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (written) 1825 -- "Swordy well" / John Clare (probably written 1820s) "Mysterious night" / Joseph Blanco White (written 1827) -- "To-morrow" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, original by Lope De Vega (1833) -- "The fish, the man, and the spirit" / Leigh Hunt (1836) -- "The Columbine" / Jones Very (1839) -- "Written in Emerson's essays" / Matthew Arnold (written 1844) -- Sonnets from the Portugese 28 / Elizabeth Barrett Browing (1850) -- Sonnets, third series 6 / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (written before 1873) -- "Retreat" / Charles Baudelaire (translated by Rachel Hadas) -- Modern love 50 / George Meredith (1862) -- "A dream" Charles / Tennyson Turner (1864) -- "I know not why, but all this weary day / Henry Timrod (1867) -- "Renouncement" / Alice Meynell (written 1869) -- Brother and Sister 7 and 8 / George Eliot (written before 1870) -- "For a Venetian pastoral" / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870) -- "A superscription" / Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1870) --
