1. Christina Rosetti, Later Life 17 (1881)
2. Gwendolyn Brooks, “To a Winter Squirrel” (1965)
3. Robert Frost, “The Oven Bird” (1916)
4. Edmund Spenser, Amoretti 8 (1595)
5. Marianne Moore, “No Swan So Fine” (1932)
6. Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As kingfishers catch fire” (1883)
7. Terence Hayes, from American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018)
8. Elizabeth Bishop, “Sonnet” (1979)
9. Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Whoso list to hunt” (1557)
10. Hart Crane, “To Emily Dickinson” (1926)
11. George Herbert, “Prayer (I)” (1633)
12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Work without Hope” (1825)
13. Rita Dove, “Party Dress for a First Born” (1995)
14. William Shakespeare, “Not marble nor the gilded monuments” (1608)
Bonus sonnet: by K. Silem Mohammad, a project called Sonnagrams, of which he writes: “My process for composing sonnagrams is as follows: I feed one of Shakespeare’s sonnets into an internet anagram engine, generating fourteen lines of text that is quantitatively equivalent to Shakespeare’s poem at the level of the letter. I then rearrange this text, clicking and dragging letter by letter until I have a new English sonnet. All leftover letters are used to make up a title.”
