| He wanted to speak beautiful words, whispering sonnets of his own design into her ear. |
| Edmund Spenser in his Amoretti sonnets compares his love with a spotted panther who attracts with beauty but shows no mercy and is cruel. |
| Ostensibly, the title designates the thematic qualities of the sonnets, but it also announces their formal qualities as well. |
| Imagine writing a book about the Lord's Prayer, or the Ave Maria, or one of Shakespeare's sonnets. |
| Among the hardy perennials, quatrains and sonnets, we encounter such exotic metrical cultivars as sapphics and cretics. |
| Goodness must be praised in sonnets and lyrical monologues, pointing out that should evil prevail, badness will happen. |
