Sonnet Test Review Flashcards
“Drowned is reason that should me comfort / and I remain despairing of the port.”
My Galley, Charged with Forgetfulness
“Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.”
Whoso List to Hunt
“Noli me tangere / for Caesar’s I am.”
Whoso List to Hunt
“So every sweet with soure is tempred still…”
Sonnet 26
“Strange thing, me seemd, to see a beast so wyld / so goodly wonne, with her owne will beguld.”
Sonnet 67
“My verse your virtues rare shall eternalize / and in the heavens write your glorious name.”
Sonnet 75
“And if these things, as being thine by right / move not thy heavy grace, thou shall in me…Stella’s image see.”
Sonnet 39
“Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines.”
Sonnet 18
“In me thou seest the twilight of such day / as after sunset fadeth in the west.”
Sonnet 73
“If this be error upon me proved / I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
Sonnet 116
“I love to hear her speak, yet well I know / that music hath a far more pleasing sound.”
Sonnet 130
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally / and death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”
Death Be Not Proud
“As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend.”
Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God
“Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth / that I to manhood am arrived so near.”
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
“All is, if I have grace to use it so / as ever in my great Task-Master’s Eye.”
On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three
“When I consider how my light is spent / e’re half my days, in this dark world and wide.”
On His Blindness
“They also serve who only stand and waite.”
On His Blindness
“Milton! Thou shold’st be living at this hour!”
London, 1802
“Great God! I’d rather be a pagan suckled in a creed outworn.”
The World Is Too Much With Us
“Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! / Nothing beside remains.”
Ozymandias
“Still unchangeable / pillowed upon my fair love’s ripening breast.”
Bright Star, Were I Steadfast As Thou Art
“Why do men not reck his rod? / Generations have trod, have trod, have trod.”
God’s Grandeur
“And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell.”
God’s Grandeur
“For rose-moles all in stipple under trout that swim.”
Pied Beauty
“He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change. / Praise him.”
Pied Beauty
“When then should I accompt of little paine / That endlesse pleasure shall unto me gaine!”
Sonnet 26
“The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe.”
Sonnet 39
“Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade / when in eternal lines to time thou growest.”
Sonnet 18
“And when I fear, fair creature of an hour / that I shall never look upon thee more…”
When I Have Fears
“Before my pen has gleaned by teeming brain.”
When I Have Fears
