SONNET

Related Subjects: Poets and Poetry

1. The sonnet is a trunk, and you must pack
   With care, to ship frail baggage far away;
   The octet is the trunk; sestet, the tray;
   Tight, but not overloaded, is the knack.—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Thoughts While Packing a Trunk
   

2. A sonnet is a moment's monument,—
   Memorial from the Soul's eternity
   To one dead deathless hour.—ROSSETTI, The Sonnet
   

3. A torturer of phrases into sonnets.—SCOTT, Auchindrane
   

4. Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
   

5. Deep-brain'd sonnets.—SHAKESPEARE, A Lover's Complaint
   

6. Spare thou no pains; carve thought's pure diamond
   With fourteen facets, scattering fire and light.—J. A. SYMONDS, The Sonnet