92 Verbs to Use for the Word sonnet

He could not shed his tears upon the paper and hand them around for inspection, or write a melancholy sonnet on the frailty of crockery, as a relief to his mind.

But, when in a volume of poems which Mercy published one year after their parting, he read the following sonnet, he knew that all was indeed over: DIED.

O Moon, thou climb'st the Skies!" Edmund Spencer composed fifty-eight sonnets in one year to chronicle his varied emotions as a lover.

As students of Wordsworth know, he issued a volume in 1838 containing all his sonnets then written; and, at the close of that edition, he added, "The six Sonnets annexed were composed as this Volume was going through the Press, but too late for insertion in the class of miscellaneous ones to which they belong."

In particular, I fear lest you should prefer printing my first sonnet, as you have done more than once, "did the wand of Merlin wave," it looks so like Mr. Merlin, the ingenious successor of the immortal Merlin, now living in good health and spirits, and flourishing in magical reputation, in Oxford Street; and, on my life, one half who read it would understand it so.

[Sub-Footnote vi: Compare the Sonnet entitled 'The Author's Voyage down the Rhine, thirty years ago', in the "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent' in 1820, and the note appended to it.

Isabella Jane Towers, author of The Children's Fireside, 1828, and other books for children, to whom Lamb had sent a sonnet (see Vol.

Or they found a patron and gave him a sugared sonnet for a pittance, or strained themselves to the length of an Ode for a berth in his household.

Raphael addressed him a sonnet, and Titian painted his likeness.

Varchi, quoting this sonnet in his Lezione, conjectures that it was composed for Tommaso Cavalieri. XXXI.

He looked exactly as a famous sculptor looked who, when a beautiful work of his hands was unveiled, wished me to publish a descriptive sonnet from his pen.

"He consumed his time in writing verses to the canon's niece; and even as Hercules in the gay court of Omphale threw down his club in order to hold the distaff, so Abélard laid aside his sceptre as a monarch of the schools to sing sonnets at the feet of Héloïse."

I love my sonnets because they are the reflected images of my own feelings at different times.

I had a pleasant letter from your sister, greatly over-acknowledging my poor sonnet.

The same letter to Southey informs us that the sonnet to Mrs. Siddons was not Lamb's earliest poem, although it stands first in his poetical works; for Coleridge remarks: "Have you seen his [Lamb's] divine sonnet, 'O!

I will repeat to you a sonnet addressed to Love.

The chief literary work of these two men, therefore, is to introduce the sonnet and the blank verse,one the most dainty, the other the most flexible and characteristic form of English poetry,which in the hands of Shakespeare and Milton were used to make the world's masterpieces.

When it was uncovered in its present position all Florence flocked to the Loggia to praise it; the poets placed commendatory sonnets on the pillars, and the sculptor peacocked up and down in an ecstasy of triumph.

Goethe admired Lamb's sonnet on his family name.

They were obliged to renounce it, for his mistress then was that admirable fairy, invisible and dumb to the common herd, who displays her beauties to the gaze of a chosen race alone, as she murmurs her divine and chaste sonnets in their ear.

'Tis a good sonnet notwithstanding.

It encloses a sonnet to the ambassador, written with a trembling hand, and in such a manner that he will not, perhaps, have less difficulty in reading it than I had in writing.

At the next meeting, each of us is to produce a sonnet on a subject which we draw by lot.

Then Varchi recites the sonnet: Why should I seek to ease intense desire With still more tears and windy words of grief, When heaven, or late or soon, sends no relief To souls whom love hath robed around with fire? Why need my aching heart to death aspire, When all must die?

Per occasionem cujus I framed the sonnet; observe its elaborate construction.

92 Verbs to Use for the Word  sonnet