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Scanty plot of ground: a book of sonnets
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From the Book
Introduction / Paul Muldoon
In a Spring grove / William Allingham
Shakespeare / Matthew Arnold
The traveller / W. H. Auden
Cynthia on horseback / Philip Ayers
Correspondences / Charles Baudelaire
To my mother / George Barker
Epitaph on the tombstone of a child, the last of seven that died before / Aphra Behn
Sonnet 13 / John Berryman
House of unending / Reginald Dwayne Betts
Some dreams they forget / Elizabeth Bishop
If it is true, what the Prophets write / William Blake
The deeds that might have been / Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The soldier / Rupert Brooke
Mentors / Gwendolyn Brooks
Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Misconceptions / Robert Browning
Sonnet-Mutation / William Cullen Bryant
A sonnet upon sonnets / Robert Burns
Mediocrity in love rejected / Thomas Carew
Spenser's Ireland / Ciaran Carson
Sonnet to the Countess of Bedford / George Chapman
Advice (for E) / Marilyn Chin
The shepherd boy / John Clare
Put some sex sonnet / Wanda Coleman
Composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20, 1796 / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnet / Billy Collins
To Mary Unwin / William Cowper
Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen
Sonnet 39 from Delia / Samuel Daniel
Still-life / Elizabeth Daryush
If you would know the love which I you bear / Sir John Davies
Death be not proud from Holy Sonnets / John Donne
Found sonnet: The wig / Rita Dove
Since there's no help / Michael Drayton
The Baptist / William Drummond of Hawthornden
Anne Hathaway / Carol Ann Duffy
Douglass / Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Silken Tent / Robert Frost
Sonnet to George the Fourth / George Gordon (Lord Byron)
On the death of Richard West / Thomas Gray
Sonnet 38 from Cælica / Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke)
Lerici / Thom Gunn
September 1922 / Ivor Gurney
On marriage / Marilyn Hacker
Reckless sonnet no. 8 / Kimiko Hahn
Hap / Thomas Hardy
Long distance II / Tony Harrison
In the bistro / Gwen Harwood
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin / Terrance Hayes
Requiem for the Croppies / Seamus Heaney
Redemption / George Harbert
Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick
The Windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins
I never saw you, madam, lay apart / Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey)
Iterating sonnet / Leigh Hunt
Blind Tom plays for Confederate Troops, 1863 from Sonnet Crown for Blind Tom / Tyehimba Jess
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth / Ben Jonson
Epic / Patrick Kavanagh
If by dull rhymes our English must be chained / John Keats
To Robert Browning / Walter Savage Landor
Love, we must part now: do not let it be / Philip Larkin
The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus
Post-coitum tristesse: a sonnet / Brad Leithauser
Sonnet / Anne Locke
Florence Nightingale / Michael Longley
Chaucer / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To speak of woe that is in marriage / Robert Lowell
Jim Limber the adopted Mulatto son of Jefferson Davis was another child first / Shane McCrae
If we must die / Claude McKay
Sunday morning / Louis MacNeice
Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith
Not for that city / Charlotte Mew
I will put Chaos into fourteen lines / Edna St Vincent Millay
When I consider how my life is spent / John Milton
The glass tánagra / Hope Mirrlees
Milton / Edwin Muir
The Mitchells / Les Murray
Sonnet IV from A Wreath for Emmett Till / Marilyn Nelson
Swineherd / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Sea sonnet / Alice Oswald
Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen
Wave / Don Paterson
Invasive species / Carl Phillips
Mayflower / Sylvia Plath
Sonnet-To Science / Edgar Allan Poe
Sir Walter Raleigh to his son / Sir Walter Raleigh
The Unicorn / Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems, sunrises, and precedents / Ed Roberson
Fleming Helphenstine / Edwin Arlington Robinson
The favorite / Theodore Roethke
from Monna Innominata / Cristina Rossetti
Willowwood / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Trench duty / Siegfried Sassoon
To the poppy / Anna Seward
Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare
Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet 31 from Astrophel and Stella / Sir Philip Sidney
Composed during a walk on the Downs, in November 1787 / Charlotte Smith
from Motown Crown / Patricia Smith
To a goose / Robert Southey
Sonnet 75 from Amoretti / Edmund Spenser
A sequence of sonnets on the death of Robert Browning / Algernon Charles Swinburne
Sonnet to beauty / Allen Tate
Crowned / Sara Teasdale
The kraken / Alfred Tennyson
If I should ever by chance / Edward Thomas
Among those killed in the Dawn Raid was a man aged a hundred / Dylan Thomas
November cotton flower / Jean Toomer
Native Guard / Natasha Trethewey
Testimony / César Vallejo
Arsehole / Paul Verlaine & Arthur Rimbaud
[Thought at first that grief had brought him down] / Ellen Bryant Voigt
Childhood / Margaret Walker
To a Cape Ann Schooner / John Greenleaf Whittier
Sonnet / Richard Wilbur
The sonnet / Ella Wheeler Wilcox
On the sale by auction of Keats' love letters / Oscar Wilde
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room / William Wordsworth
Sonnet I from A Crowne of Sonetts Dedicated to Love / Lady Mary Wroth
Who so list to hounte I know where is a hynde / Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sonnet / Elinor Wylie
Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats.
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Muldoon, Paul editor, writer of introduction
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9780571373444