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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow ... Sonnet 2 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet.
"When forty winters shall besiege thy brow" ("Sonnet 2"), performed by Caroline Blakiston "No longer mourn for me when I am dead" ("Sonnet 71"), performed by Peter Bowles "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes" ("Sonnet 141"), performed by Sylvia Syms "Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day" ("Sonnet 34"), performed by Robert Lindsay
Sonnet II", also known by its opening words as "As Due By Many Titles", is a poem written by John Donne, who is considered to be one of the representatives of the metaphysical poetry in English literature. It was first published in 1633, two years after Donne’s death.
Fierce Desires, by Rebecca L. Davis “Americans love to talk—and fight—about sex,” so begins the first comprehensive history published in nearly forty years.
Those Winter Sundays. " Those Winter Sundays " is a poem written in 1962 by American Robert Hayden (1913–1980), while he was teaching as an English professor at Fisk University. The poem is one of Hayden's most recognized works, together with "Middle Passage". [1]
In Sonnet 53, Adonis is paired with Helen as an exemplar of human beauty (53.5, 7); Mars’ name appears, though not Venus (55.7); ‘ heavie Saturne’ laughs and dances with ‘proud pide Aprill’ (98.2–4); the nightingale is called Philomel (102.7) and the phoenix is mentioned (19.4). In the procreation sonnets, a reference to the myth of ...
Pages in category "Sonnets by William Shakespeare". The following 163 pages are in this category, out of 163 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Shakespeare's sonnets. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets. Procreation sonnets.
Joachim du Bellay [a] (French: [ʒɔaʃɛ̃ dy bɛlɛ]; c. 1522 – 1 January 1560) [2] was a French poet, critic, and a founder of La Pléiade. He notably wrote the manifesto of the group: Défense et illustration de la langue française, which aimed at promoting French as an artistic language, equal to Greek and Latin.