"A sonnet is a moment's monument," said Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a sonnet about sonnets. The sonnets in this collection—whether they capture moments of perception, recognition, despair, or celebration—reveal how great an amount of feeling, insight, and experience can be concentrated into a mere fourteen lines. Here are classics such as Milton's "On His Blindness," Yeats's "Leda and the Swan," and Frost's "The Oven Bird," juxtaposed with the mischievous wit of Rupert Brooke's "Sonnet Reversed," the lyric defiance of Mona Van Duyn's "Caring for Surfaces," and the comic poignancy of Philip Larkin's "To Failure." From the lovelorn laments of Dante and Petrarch to the artful heights of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, from the masterpieces of Wordsworth and Keats to the innovations of Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and James Merrill, the sonnet has proved both versatile and enduring. This delightful anthology displays the incredible range and power of the verse form that has inspired poets across the centuries. To The Sun-dial by John Quincy Adams Alpha And Omega by William Alabaster On The Group Of The Three Angels Before The Tent Of Abraham, By by Washington Allston At Night by Yehuda Amichai West London by Matthew Arnold Luther by Wystan Hugh Auden The Novelist by Wystan Hugh Auden The Flowers Of Evil: Correspondences by Charles Baudelaire The Owls by Charles Baudelaire Sonnet To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty by Thomas Lovell Beddoes Home by Joachim Du Bellay Ruined Rome by Joachim Du Bellay The Bosses Of Rome by Giuseppe Giocchino Belli Jubilate Deo by Old Testament Bible Lead! by Ambrose Bierce Sonnet by Elizabeth Bishop To The Evening Star by William Blake Its Origin by Nicolas Boileau-despreaux A Forgery by George H. Boker Compass [una Brujula] by Jorge Luis Borges At Dover Cliffs, July 20, 1787 by William Lisle Bowles Sonnet: 23. Netley Abbey by William Lisle Bowles 1914: 5. The Soldier by Rupert Brooke Sonnet Reversed by Rupert Brooke Hiram Powers' Greek Slave by Elizabeth Barrett Browning To Cole, The Painter, Departing For Europe by William Cullen Bryant Its Length by Robert Burns Closing Day by Luis De Camoens The Portrait Of A Lady by Giovanni Della Casa Water Never The Same by Jean Baptiste Chassignet Gipsies (1) by John Clare Winter Walk by John Clare Sonnet To The River Otter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Winged Thoughts by Vittoria Colonna Sonnet To William Wilberforce, Esquire by William Cowper Seven Wonders Of The World: 5. The Photograph by Christopher Pearse Cranch From The Dark Tower by Countee Cullen To Delia: 1 by Samuel Daniel To Delia: 45 by Samuel Daniel To Delia: 46 by Samuel Daniel Broken Thoughts by Dante Alighieri Dressing Cupid by John (1569-1626) Davies On Hope by Juana Ines De La Cruz To Her Self-portrait by Juana Ines De La Cruz Death Rebuked by John Donne Microcosm by John Donne The Soul To Her Rescuer by John Donne Idea: 6 by Michael Drayton Love's Farewell by Michael Drayton My Smithy by Michael Drayton The World by William Drummond Of Hawthornden Sonnet: On A Family Picture by Thomas Edwards Design by Robert Frost Never Again Would Birds' Song Be The Same by Robert Frost The Oven Bird by Robert Frost Putting In The Seed by Robert Frost The Silken Tent by Robert Frost The Poet Talks On The Phone With His Love by Federico Garcia Lorca Her Jewels by George Gascoigne Visions Of The Absent by George Gascoigne Pride Of The Fourth And Liquid Element by Luis De Gongora On The Death Of Richard West by Thomas Gray Benighted by Fulke Greville This Nothing Seen by Fulke Greville He Compares All Things With His Lady, And Finds Them Wanting by Guido Cavalcanti Sonnet (a Rapture Concerning His Lady) by Guido Cavalcanti The Lights Of London by Louise Imogen Guiney High Fidelity by Thomson William Gunn Hap by Thomas Hardy Satires Of Circumstance. 6. In The Cemetery by Thomas Hardy Naming The Animals by Anthony Hecht A Lock Of Hair by Heinrich Heine Sonnet To A.w. Von Schlegel by Heinrich Heine Sonnet To Black It Self by Edward Herbert Prayer (1) by George Herbert Redemption by George Herbert A Sonnet Sent Home From College by George Herbert Requiem For The Plantagenet Kings by Geoffrey Hill A Theory Of Waves by John Hollander Sonnet: Silence by Thomas Hood Paradise Saved by Alec Derwent Hope Abyss by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Sea And The Skylark by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins Accident In Art by Richard Hovey Spring, But by Henry Howard Under House Arrest In Windsor by Henry Howard The Grasshopper And The Cricket by James Henry Leigh Hunt The Nile by James Henry Leigh Hunt The Trevi Fountain, Rome by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov Crossed Threads by Helen Maria Hunt Fiske Ja