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

I was in my nightgown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

There are many places where “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,” from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, elicits a nod of recognition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 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

I knew she had forgiven me when she asked me to read to her a volume of love sonnets, which were said to be the latest fashion in England.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

"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

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 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