An archive of English sonnets, commentary, audio, and relevant web links.

Shakespeare's Sonnets, Love Poetry, Commentary, Illustrations 1609 Quarto text ...

Sonnets which can be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.

Return to Renascence Editions Delia. Contayning certayne Sonnets: vvith the complaint of Rosamond. Samuel Daniel. Sonnets. | Complaint of Rosamond. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was transcribed and edited from the Scolar Press facsimile by Thomas Larque by whose kind permission this Renascence Editions text is provided. A few emendations have been undertaken, including those ...

Return to Renascence Editions Diana (1594) Henry Constable. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was transcribed from the Scolar Press facsimile of 1973 by Judy Boss by whose kind permission this Renascence Editions text is provided. Content unique to this presentation is copyright 1998 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and ...

Return to Renascence Editions Sonnets by Spenser from Various Sources A Note on the Renascence Editions text: This HTML etext is based upon The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser by Richard Bear at the University of Oregon. The text is in the public domain. Markup is copyright 1995 University of Oregon; this version is distributed for nonprofit use only. Comments and ...

Sonnets by William Percy, 1594 ...

Rainer Maria Rilke's The Sonnets To Orpheus, as translated by Howard A. Landman ...

Sonnet Syllabus Craft of Poetry Home Sonnets were first written in Italian and were traditionally love poems. Though the sonnet is a form that can be experimented with, it has remained true to its original length of fourteen lines and its Anglicized meter of iambic pentameter. Petrarch developed the sonnet to one of its highest levels during early Renaisannce Italy, but it wasn't translated into ...

Fun and reader friendly poems for everyone to enjoy.