English sonnet

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Noun
  • On Jewish holidays, the Hallel prayer is recited in Shul as a psalm of praise and thanksgiving and collective expression of gratitude for GDs miracles.
    Rafael James, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
  • We're bound by the same beliefs, the same psalms, and the same sacred pursuit of liberty.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Almost too passionately anguished, Austen is a sonnet played on the fortepiano, while Winslet is Liszt banged out on a Steinway.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • This is rock and roll as pastoral.
    Mitch Therieau, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The truth is that Korby won Christine over with kindness and a Pablo Neruda poem.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 July 2025
  • Like a poem, happiness is under no onus to mean something other than itself.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • Everyone has a right to define the artist in special terms, and to attempt an epigram that will make a reality out of a convenient term.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.
    Jann E. Freed, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Until then, there’s no reason to think this Epstein epic is going to fade.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 18 July 2025
  • Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is based on Homer's ancient Greek epic of the same name.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
    Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • They were trained to repeat dirty jokes and limericks about Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer to customers.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 July 2025
  • Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at [email protected].
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
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