Category: Shakespearean sonnet

A Shakespearean sonnet (sometimes called an English sonnet) typically consists of three quatrains and a final couplet, with a volta between the third quatrain and the couplet, and is usually in iambic pentameter. Two common rhyme schemes are ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and ABBA CDDC EFFE GG.

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Poems assigned to this category

Total poems: 70
Poem title Poet(s) Date Periodical id #
Greece.—A Sonnet Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 7847
The Aurora Borealis.—A Sonnet Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 7846
Autumn.—A Sonnet Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 7890
Elysium.—A Sonnet Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 7889
Sonnet Anster, John 1820-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8522
The Autumnal Eve Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8769
The Snowy Eve. A Sonnet Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8773
Composed After Reading the Abbot Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8790
Icolmkill Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8791
Twilight on Loch Katrine Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 8787
Death Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta, ∆) 1820-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 9071
Hope Michell, Nicholas 1830 Forget-Me-Not 14456
Love Shakespeare, William 1832-04-21 The Penny Magazine 9878
Truth Shakespeare, William 1832-04-21 The Penny Magazine 2829
To Agatha Brown, Edward Noyce 1840 Forget-Me-Not 15181
Corra Linn Lister, Thomas Henry 1840-08-01 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 4410
Stonebyres Lister, Thomas Henry 1840-08-01 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 4409
II.—(Esoteric) Crosland, Newton 1850 The Keepsake 12395
Half the Year Round Parr, Harriet (pseudonym Holme Lee) 1859-06-18 All the Year Round 2699
Half the Year Round Parr, Harriet (pseudonym Holme Lee) 1859-12-10 All the Year Round 2720
Sonnet. (Written at Sanquhar) Blackie, John Stuart 1860-02 Good Words 313
Milton Worsley, Philip Stanhope 1860-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 7765
Good Intentions Payn, James 1860-11-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 6740
Sonnet from Petrarch. “Se lamentar angelli o verdi fronde” Petrarch 1860-12-15 Once a Week 305
Evening Dawson, James 1870-01-22 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7236
A Landscape Dawson, James 1870-04-23 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7249
A Spring Sketch Dawson, James 1870-05-28 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7254
A Sea-Town Dawson, James 1870-06-11 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7256
An Early Summer Morning Dawson, James 1870-07-30 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7264
II.—Stennis Blackie, John Stuart 1870-08-01 Good Words 12519
An August Twilight Dawson, James 1870-08-06 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7265
Evening Dawson, James 1870-10-01 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7272
Twilight Dawson, James 1870-10-08 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7273
An Autumn Morning Dawson, James 1870-10-29 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7276
A Winter Evening Dawson, James 1870-12-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7282
At Evening Dawson, James 1870-12-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7283
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old” Shakespeare, William 1871-08 The Dark Blue 16091
“Ding dong, ding dong, so rich, so full, so deep” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-09 The Dark Blue 16099
“I came not here to weep, but in thy fall” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-09 The Dark Blue 16104
“The gifts of God are many: but from me” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-09 The Dark Blue 16102
“There rolls He now, majestic, broad, and free” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-09 The Dark Blue 16101
“There stand thou now: it is the place for thee” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-09 The Dark Blue 16103
“‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-09 The Dark Blue 16100
“I laud them not; but I must weep for all” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-10 The Dark Blue 16107
“Look here, and ponder well, and know the land” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-10 The Dark Blue 16109
“Sand, sand, long leagues of heath and barren sand!” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-10 The Dark Blue 16108
“There stands he now, amid the flock the ram” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-10 The Dark Blue 16110
“Prussian, that iron cross upon thy breast” Blackie, John Stuart 1871-11 The Dark Blue 16113
“Far off my dream, and yet unearthly fair” O’Hara, Millicent 1871-12 The Dark Blue 16116
Wishes C. H. W. (poet; Once a Week), Williams, Charles H. 1880-02-28 Once a Week 13762
Work 1880-03-06 All the Year Round 4541
Evenfall Dawson, James 1880-03-20 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 7297
The Kingcraft of Love MacDonald, Mosse 1880-06 Temple Bar 17697
Sonnet 60 Shakespeare, William 1880-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 9260
Sonnet 73 Shakespeare, William 1880-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 9261
In Snow Time Stockall, Harriett 1880-11-06 All the Year Round 4558
Sonnet. To My Sister, With a Volume of Tennyson’s Songs Hollins, Dorothy 1890 Woman’s World 1055
“Inasmuch” Fyvie Mayo, Isabella 1890 Good Words 4027
Waiting Howden, Jessie C. 1890-01-04 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 13122
Spring Christie, M. C. 1890-04-05 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 13135
Evening Burgess, James John Haldane 1890-08-09 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 13153
Happiness 1890-08-16 All the Year Round 4862
At The Last Williams, Antonia R. 1890-10 Atalanta 2048
To Me Your Heart Is Mute Matheson, E. 1900-02-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 12434
Sonnet Poynter, Clara Singer 1900-05-19 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 12448
Fortitude Braham, Alice D. 1900-09 The Argosy 17183
Gratitude Braham, Alice D. 1900-10 The Argosy 17190
The Old Gospel Rogers, Edgar 1900-10 The Argosy 17193
Sonnet Christie, M. C. 1900-10-06 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 12467
Christmas Wilson, Sarah 1900-11-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 12472