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

Produced on a reported budget of $25 million, it earned $289 million globally, more than enough for the filmmakers to sing a sweet sonnet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

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

He read it aloud, pronouncing each phrase of the sonnet with elaborate gestures.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

She also admitted to being " besotted" by Shakespeare's sonnets: "I just love them."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

But a startling number of pieces—symphonies, sonatas, madrigals, sonnets, even ambitious operas—were composed to the highest standards of professional musicianship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

He consumed everything from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill to Shakespearean sonnets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

It was the sonnets that praised a lady’s fair lips and eyes that made Gertrude wistful.

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