What is "sonnets"

Usage examples of "sonnets".

He informed me that he had written three hundred sonnets against the abbe, who would burst with rage if they were ever printed.

This incident made me compose two sonnets, which pleased me a good deal at the time, and with which I am still satisfied.

Daddy had brought me a book of poems, sonnets written by a southern lady whose lover was killed at Vicksburg.

Daddy read the sonnets to me and I cried and called myself a silly thing and he laughed softly in that gentle way of his.

Shakespeare had structured a drama in his sonnets, Mahnmut was certain of that.

I pen these sonnets, Caliban, I will do so to explore my own failures, weaknesses, compromises, self-conceits, and sad ambiguities in the way that one probes a bloody socket for the missing tooth after a barroom brawl.

Mahnmut hesitated a moment, but then slipped the irreplaceable book of sonnets into his backpack, trotted to the mid-deck, and joined in the lashing down of the lowered lateen sail.

He felt now that it might be possible to wrest those twenty sonnets from that volume and, by adding twenty more with the cooperation of the Muse, build a sizeable sequence which would make a book on its own.

So far he had these two sonnets -- the Garden of Eden one and the new one about man building his own world outside the Garden.

I was blinded by passion, and the idea of three hundred sonnets against the Abbe Chiari fascinated me.