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Sonnet 17 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, consisting of three quatrains followed by a couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnet 17 is written in iambic pentameter, a form of meter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The sonnet's fourth line exemplifies a regular iambic ...
Silvestri's wife Julie died from ovarian cancer in 2005 aged 36. A group of poems he wrote about their relationship, her death, and his grief, together with three poems by her and two by Whitacre, form the words of Whitacre's 2018 The Sacred Veil. [11] [12] [13]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (née Moulton-Barrett; 6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.
"Come again, sweet love doth now invite" (John Dowland) sung by John Potter "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" ("Sonnet 129"), performed by Ralph Fiennes "Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me" ("Sonnet 132"), performed by Matthew Rhys "I never saw that you did painting need" ("Sonnet 83"), performed by Imelda Staunton
January 11 – Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" is published in Leigh Hunt's weekly The Examiner (London; p. 24) under the pen name 'Glirastes'; Horace Smith's contribution to the same informal sonnet-writing competition, "On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below" is published on February 1 under his initials.
This category contains a selection of articles about the 154 individual sonnets written by William ... Sonnet 17; Sonnet 18; Sonnet 19; Sonnet 20; Sonnet 21; Sonnet ...
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem (1816) Calidore (1816) Hadst thou Liv’d in Days of Old (1816) I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill (1816) I am as Brisk (1816) On Oxford (1817) O Grant that Like to Peter I (1817) Think not of it, Sweet One (1817) Unfelt, Unheard, Unseen (1817) In Drear-Nighted December (1817) Modern Love (1818) The Castle ...
Charles Best (fl. 1592–1611) was an English poet and lawyer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. The dates of his birth and death are not recorded, but his father and mother, John Best and Margaret Walcot of Cotheridge, Worcestershire, were married in 1567, and Charles was admitted to the Middle Temple on 22 April 1592.