Poems

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Title	Author	Year
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III	Mary Robinson	1796
Gapped Sonnet	Suzanne Gardinier	2013
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
A Sonnet from the Archive of Love’s Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million	Anne Boyer	2013
Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 [Winter]	William Shakespeare	1598
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
Sonnetesque	Lynn Emanuel	2012
Love Song for Love Songs	Rafael Campo	2012
Superheroes as 2004 Volkswagen Passat: A Double Sonnet	Bruce Covey	2012
Chopin	Emma Lazarus	1888
Echoes	Emma Lazarus	1888
Half-Hearted Sonnet	Kim Addonizio	2012
Testing Gardening (audio only)	Marie Ponsot	2011
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66)	William Shakespeare	1609
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65)	William Shakespeare	1609
Without Discussion	Samuel Amadon	2011
I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Sonnet 7 [The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings]	Henry Howard	1557
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find]	Petrarch	1374
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace]	Henry Howard	1557

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