A good ballade is almost as rare as a good sonnet, but a middling ballade is almost as easily written as the majority of sonnets. Either form readily becomes mechanical, cheap and facile. I have heard Mr. George Meredith improvise a sonnet, a Petrarchian sonnet, obedient to the rules, without pen and paper. He spoke 'and the numbers came'; he sonneted as easily as a living poet, in his Eton days, improvised Latin elegiacs and Greek hexameters.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
There (after trifling with beef, mutton, puddings, pies, and so on) I got a Stilton cheese. I was so much moved by my memories that I wrote a sonnet to the cheese. Some critical friends have hinted to me that my sonnet is not strictly new; that it contains "echoes" (as they express it) of some other poem that they have read somewhere. Here, at least, are the lines I wrote :-英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"Your sonnet which you showed me expressed much better than I could express it the feeling with which I tried to write this book, and I once intended to ask your permission to prefix the sonnet to my book, but my friends persuaded me that I ought to tell my story in my own prose, however much better your verse might be."英文原著 · 《Great Astronomers》
Turn from these light compliments to the pure and reverential tenderness of a sonnet like this:- SONNET 223.英文原著 · 《Oldport Days》
Sonnet: "Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire" Sonnet: "I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true" Success Dust Kindliness Mummia The Fish Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body Flight The Hill The One Before the Last The Jolly Company The Life Beyond Lines Written in the Belief That the Ancient Roman Festival of the Dead Was Called Ambarvalia Dead Men's Love Town and Country Paralysis Menelaus and Helen Libido Jealousy Blue Evening The Charm Finding Song The Voice Dining-Room Tea The Goddess in the Wood A Channel Passage Victory Day and Night英文原著 · 《Poems of Rupert Brooke》
Tiare Tahiti Retrospect The Great Lover Heaven Doubts There's Wisdom in Women He Wonders Whether to Praise or to Blame Her A Memory (From a sonnet-sequence) One Day Waikiki Hauntings Sonnet (Suggested by some of the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research) Clouds Mutability英文原著 · 《Poems of Rupert Brooke》
I've always fancied myself a sonneteer, But I'm thinking the free verse girls will be freer with everything, If you catch my meaning.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Yes, it's like that Shakespeare sonnet, "Shall I compare thee to a day That's also a really weird math problem." It's a shame you're joking.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Two weeks ago when you took me'to dinner at cft, I was so happy, I wrote you a sonnet Why are you showing me this?美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》