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Sonnet 8 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. As with the other procreation sonnets, it urges a young man to settle down with a wife and to have children. It insists a family is the key to living a harmonious, peaceful life.
Holy Sonnet VIII – also known by its opening words as If Faithful Souls Be Alike Glorified – is a poem written by John Donne, an English metaphysical poet. It was first published in 1633, two years after the author's death.
"It is a beauteous evening" is the only "personal" sonnet he wrote at this time; others written in 1802 were political in nature and "Dedicated to Liberty" in the 1807 collection. The simile "quiet as a nun / Breathless with adoration" is often cited as an example of how a poet achieves effects.
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Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a sonnet, written in loose iambic pentameter, but with an atypical rhyme scheme, [19] which violates the Italian sonnet rule that there should be no connection in rhyme between the octave and the sestet. Two themes of the "Ozymandias" poems are the inevitable decline of rulers and their hubris. [20]
Sonnet; Sonnet; Sonnet; Sonnet to Thomas Clarkson; Once in a lonely Hamlet, &c; Foresight, or the Charge of a Child to his younger Companion; A Complaint; I am not One, &c; Yes! full surely 'twas the Echo, &c; To the Spade of a Friend; Song, at the Feast of Brougham Castle; Lines, composed at Grasmere; Elegiac Stanzas; Ode; Notes
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"On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because it was Frequented by a Lunatic", also known as Charlotte Smith's Sonnet LXX, is an early Romantic poem which uses imagery of the sea and of madness to express poetic melancholy.