Introduction William Allingham, ''In a Spring Grove'' Matthew Arnold, ''Shakespeare'' W. H. Auden, ''The Traveller'' Philip Ayres, ''Cynthia on Horseback'' Charles Baudelaire, ''Correspondences'' George Barker, ''To My Mother'' Aphra Behn, ''Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the last of Seven that died before'' John Berryman, ''Sonnet 13'' Reginald Dwayne Betts, ''House of Unending'' Elizabeth Bishop, ''Some Dreams They Forgot'' William Blake, ''If it is true, what the Prophets write'' Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, ''The Deeds That Might Have Been'' Rupert Brooke, ''The Soldier'' Gwendolyn Brooks, ''Mentors'' Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese Robert Browning, ''Misconceptions'' William Cullen Bryant, ''Sonnet--Mutation'' Robert Burns, ''A Sonnet upon Sonnets'' Thomas Carew, ''Mediocrity in Love Rejected'' Ciaran Carson, ''Spenser''s Ireland'' George Chapman, ''Sonnet to the Countess of Bedford'' Marilyn Chin, ''Advice (for E)'' John Clare, ''The Shepherd Boy'' Wanda Coleman, ''Put Some Sex Sonnet'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ''Composed on a journey homeward; the author having received intelligence of the birth of a son, Sept. 20, 1796'' Billy Collins, ''Sonnet'' William Cowper, ''To Mary Unwin'' Countee Cullen, ''Yet Do I Marvel'' Samuel Daniel, Sonnet 39 from Delia Elizabeth Daryush, ''Still-Life'' Sir John Davies, ''If you would know the love which I you bear'' John Donne, ''Death be not proud'' from Holy Sonnets Rita Dove, ''Found Sonnet: The Wig'' Michael Drayton, ''Since There''s No Help'' William Drummond of Hawthornden, ''The Baptist'' Carol Ann Duffy, ''Anne Hathaway'' Paul Laurence Dunbar, ''Douglass'' Robert Frost, ''The Silken Tent'' George Gordon (Lord Byron), ''Sonnet to George the Fourth'' Thomas Gray, ''On the Death of Richard West'' Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke), Sonnet 38 from Cælica Thom Gunn, ''Lerici'' Ivor Gurney, ''September 1922'' Marilyn Hacker, ''On Marriage'' Kimiko Hahn, ''Reckless Sonnet No. 8'' Thomas Hardy, ''Hap'' Tony Harrison, ''Long Distance II'' Gwen Harwood, ''In the Bistro'' Robert Hayden, ''Those Winter Sundays'' Terrance Hayes, ''American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin'' Seamus Heaney, ''Requiem for the Croppies'' George Herbert, ''Redemption'' Robert Herrick, ''Delight in Disorder'' Gerard Manley Hopkins, ''The Windhover'' Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), ''I never saw you, madam, lay apart'' Leigh Hunt, ''Iterating Sonnet'' Tyehimba Jess, ''Blind Tom plays for Confederate Troops, 1863'' from Sonnet Crown for Blind Tom Ben Jonson, ''A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth'' Patrick Kavanagh, ''Epic'' John Keats, ''If by dull rhymes our English must be chain''d'' Walter Savage Landor, ''To Robert Browning'' Philip Larkin, ''Love, we must part now: do not let it be'' Emma Lazarus, ''The New Colossus'' Brad Leithauser, ''Post-Coitum Tristesse: A Sonnet'' Anne Locke, ''Sonnet'' Michael Longley, ''Florence Nightingale'' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ''Chaucer'' Robert Lowell, ''To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage'' Shane McCrae, ''Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Was Another Child First'' Claude McKay, ''If We Must Die'' Louis MacNeice, ''Sunday Morning'' George Meredith, ''Lucifer in Starlight'' Charlotte Mew, ''Not for That City'' Edna St Vincent Millay, ''I will put Chaos into fourteen lines'' John Milton, ''When I Consider How My Light is Spent'' Hope Mirrlees, ''The Glass Tánagra'' Edwin Muir, ''Milton'' Les Murray, ''The Mitchells'' Marilyn Nelson, Sonnet IV from A Wreath for Emmett Till Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, ''Swineherd'' Alice Oswald, ''Sea Sonnet'' Wilfred Owen, ''Anthem for Doomed Youth'' Don Paterson, ''Wave'' Carl Phillips, ''Invasive Species'' Sylvia Plath, ''Mayflower'' Edgar Allan Poe, ''Sonnet--To Science'' Marie Ponsot, ''One Is One'' Sir Walter Raleigh, ''Sir Walter Raleigh to his son'' Rainer Maria Rilke, ''The Unicorn'' Ed Roberson, ''Poems, Sunrises, and Precedents'' Edwin Arlington Robinson, ''Fleming Helphenstine'' Theodore Roethke, ''The Favorite'' Christina Rossetti, from Monna Innominata Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Willowwood'' Siegfried Sassoon, ''Trench Duty'' Anna Seward, ''To the Poppy'' William Shakespeare, ''Sonnet 116'' Percy Bysshe Shelley, ''Ozymandias,'' Sir Philip Sidney, Sonnet 31 from Astrophel and Stella Charlotte Smith, ''Composed during a Walk on the Downs, in November 1787'' Patricia Smith, from Motown Crown Robert Southey, ''To a Goose'' Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75 from Amoretti Algernon Charles Swinburne, ''A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning'' Allen Tate, ''Sonnet to Beauty'' Sara Teasdale, ''Crowned'' Alfred Tennyson, ''The Kraken'' Edward Thomas, ''If I Should Ever by Chance'' Dylan Thomas, ''Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred'' Jean Toomer, ''November Cotton Flower'' Natasha Trethewey, ''Native Guard'' César Vallejo, ''Testimony'' Paul Verlaine & Arthur Rimbaud, ''Arsehole'' Ellen Bryant Voigt, ''[Thought at first that grief had brought him down.]'' Margaret Walker, ''Childhood'' John Greenleaf Whittier, ''To a Cape Ann Schooner'' Richard Wilbur, ''Sonnet'' Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ''The Sonnet'' Oscar Wilde, ''On the Sale by Auction of Keats'' Love Letters'' William Wordsworth, ''Nuns fret not at their convent''s narrow room'' Lady Mary Wroth, Sonnet 1 from A Crowne of Sonetts Dedicated to Love Sir Thomas Wyatt, ''Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde'' Elinor Wylie, ''Sonnet'' William Butler Yeats, ''Leda and the Swan'' Acknowledgements Index of titles and first lines.