| Sonnet definition | a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes in English typically having ten syllables per line. It has a turn at the end. |
| Mary Wroth Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Sonnet 3 | Watch but my sleepe, if I take any rest,/For thought of you, my spirit so distrest,/As, pale and famish'd, I for mercy cry |
| Mary Wroth Pamphilia to Amphilanthus Sonnet 3 ending | Who weares Love's Crowne, must not doe so amisse/But seeke their good, who on thy force do lye. |
| William Shakespeare Sonnet 101 | 'Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?.../Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how/To make him seem long hence as he shows now' |
| John Donne Holy Sonnet 5 Opening Lines | 'I am a little world made cunningly/Of Elements, and an Angelike spright,/But black sinne hath betraid to endlesse night' |
| John Donne Holy Sonnet 10 Closing Lines | 'And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.' |
