Sonnets / selected and edited by John Hollander.

Guido Cavalcanti. He compares all things with his lady, and finds them wanting/A rapture concerning his lady. Dante Alighieri. Broken thoughts
Folgore da San Gimigniano. May/June
Petrarch. Sonnet 88 used as Troilus' complaint/Love the tyrant/A night piece
Michelangelo Buonarotti. To Giovanni da Pistoja: On the painting of the Sistine Chapel/To Vittoria Colonna: The model and the statue/The impeachment of night
Vittoria Colonna. Wingèd thoughts
Giovanni Della Casa. The portrait of a lady
Sir Thomas Wyatt. Farewell to love/Hands off!
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Spring, but/Under house arrest in WIndsor
Pierre de Ronsard. Cassandra's beauty/Life's roses/Love's wounding
Joachim du Bellay. Home/Ruined Rome
Luís de Camões. Closing day
Gaspara Stampa. Her world
George Cascoigne. Her jewels/Visions of the absent
Torquato Taso. Cats/ ... And more cats
Louise Labé. Paradoxes/Restoring life/Loves of the stars
Giambattista Marino. Burning together
Luis de Góngora. Pride of the fourth and liquid element
Sir John Davies. Dressing Cupid
Jean-Baptiste Chassignet. Water never the same
Sir Philip Sidney. Astrophel would write of Stella/Hit by love/Poetry's source/Yes, but/Asking the moon about love
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke. This nothing seen/Benighted
Edmund Spenser. A hard audience/Doing and undoing/Her portrait/Eternizing her
Samuel Daniel. Repaying a debt/Care-charmer sleep/He can write only of her
Michael Drayton. Timeliness/My smithy/Love's farewell
Ben Jonson. A sonnet to the noble lady, the lady Mary Wroth
William Drummond. The world
Lady Mary Wroth. Rescuing Cupid/Thinking of love
William Shakespeare. Sonnet No. 30/Sonnet No. 53/Sonnet No. 73/Sonnet No. 94/Sonnet No. 106/Sonnet No. 107/Sonnet No. 116/Sonnet No. 121/Sonnet No. 129/Sonnet No. 138/Sonnet No. 146
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Sonnet to black it self
Mary, Countess of Pembroke. Jubilate Deo
William Alabaster. Alpha and omega
John Donne. Microcosm/Death rebuked/The soul to her rescuer
George Herbert. A sonnet sent home from college/Prayer/Redemption
Théophile De Viau. The dream
Giovan Leone Sempronio. Clocks of wheels, of sand and of sun
John Milton. On reaching age 23/On his blindness/On the late massacre in Piedmont/A dream of a dead wife/To Mr. Henry Lawes, on his airs
Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz. On hope/To her self-portrait
Thomas Edwards. Sonnet on a family picture
Thomas Gray. Sonnet on the death of Mr. Richard West
Thomas Warton, Jr. Written at Stonehenge
William Cowper. Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esquire
Anna Seward. Emblem, alas!
Charlotte Smith. To the insect of the Gossamer
William Blake. To the evening star
John Quincy Adams. To the sun-dial
William Lisle Bowles. At Dover Cliffs, July 20, 1787/Netley Abbey
Thomas Russell. To Oxford
William Wordsworth. Composed upon the beach near Calais, August, 1802/Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802/Mutability/The world is too much with us/Steamboats, viaducts and railways/To the River Duddon
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. To the River Otter
Giuseppe Giaocchino Belli. The bosses of Rome
Washington Allston. On the group of the three angels before the tent of Abraham, by Raffaele, in the Vatican
Richard Henry Wilde. To the mocking-bird
Leigh Hunt. The nile/To the grasshopper and the cricket
John Keats. On the grasshopper and cricket/The human seasons/What the thrush seemed to say/On first looking into Chapman's Homer/Bright star/Fears that I may cease to be
Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ozymandias/England in 1819
John Clare. WInter walk/Gipsies
Heinrich Heine. To A.W. von Schlegel/A lock of hair
William Cullen Bryant. To an American painter departing for Europe
Thomas Hood. Silence
Thomas Lovell Beddoes. To Tartar, a terrier beauty
William Gilmore Simms. By the Swanannoa
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Hiram Powers' 'Greek slave'
Gérard de Nerval. El desdichado
Edgar Allan Poe. To science/Silence
Charles Tennyson Turner. Old ruralities/Shadows off the coast
Alfred, Lord Tennyson. A nasty sonnet
Jones Very. The latter rain
Christopher Pearce Cranch. The photograph
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Mezzo cammin/The harvest moon/The cross of snow/Night
Jean Ingelow. Failure
Charles Baudelaire. Correspondences/The owls
Matthew Arnold. West London
George Henry Boker. A forgery
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. In his garden/The house stands vacant
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A match with the moon/On the road to Waterloo: 17 October/Barren spring/Silent noon/Body's beauty
Christina Rossetti. Remember/From sunset to star rise/In an artist's studio
George Meredith. From Modern love/Lucifer in starlight
Helen Hunt Jackson. October/Crossed threads
Thomas Hardy. Hap/In the cemetery
Gerard Manley Hopkins. The sea and the skylark/The windhover/No worst
Stéphane Mallarmé. The tomb of Poe
Ambrose Bierce. Lead
Paul Verlaine. Night scene
Emma Lazarus. 1492/The new colossus/Long Island Sound
Arthur Rimbaud. Vowels
Oscar Wilde. Impressions de voyage
LIzette Woodworth Reese. April in town
Louise Imogen Guiney. The lights of London
George Santayana. On a piece of tapestry
Richard Hovey. Accident in art
William Butler Yeats. Leda and the swan
Vyacheslav Ivanov. The Trevi Fountain, Rome
Trumbull Stickney. Mount Lykaion
Near Helikon
Edwin Arlington Robinson. The pity of the leaves
Reuben bright
Verlaine
How Annandale went out
The sheaves
Paul Valéry. White cats
Robert Frost. Never again would birds' song be the same
The oven bird
The silken tent
Putting in the seed
Design
Rainer Maria Rilke. Archaic torso of Apollo/Unicorn
Edward Thomas. February afternoon
Wallace Stevens. Autumn refrain
Elinor Wylie. Self-portrait
Rupert Brooke. Sonnet reversed/The soldier
John Crowe Ransom. Piazza piece
Jorge Luis Borges. Compass
Claude McKay. The lynching
Wilfred Owen. Anthem for doomed youth
Edna St. Vincent Millay. Bluebeard
Federico García Lorca. The poet talks on the phone with his love
Yvor Winters. Apollo and Daphne
Countee Cullen. From the dark tower
W.H. Auden. The novelist/Luther
A.D. Hope. Paradise saved
Elizabeth Bishop. Sonnet
Dylan Thomas. Lie still, sleep becalmed
Mona Van Duyn. Caring for surfaces
Richard Wilbur. O
Philip Larkin. To failure
Anthony Hecht. Naming the animals
Yehuda Amichai. At night
Elizabeth Jennings. A sonnet
James Merrill. From The broken home
Thom Gunn. High fidelity
John Hollander. A theory of waves
Geoffrey Hill. Requiem for the Plantaganet kings
J.D. McClatchy. From Kilim. On the sonnet: Nicolas Boileau. Its origin
Robert Burns. Its length
William Wordsworth. Its enclosure/Its history
John Keats. Its constraints
Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Its functions.