Sonnet VII by Francesco Petrarch Italian encouragement to a friend to pursue poetry the speaker’s friend uses personification to represent the baseness of people
"Whoso List to Hunt" by Thomas Wyatt Italian the poet's unrequited love for a woman all those who intend to pursue the woman they love uses the metaphor of hunting deer to express the impossibility of pursuing a woman who belongs to someone else
Sonnet 75 from Amoretti by Edmund Spenser English the immortality of love the speaker’s mistress uses the image of rushing waves wiping the sand clean to emphasize the idea of temporality
Sonnet 16 from Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney English a lover's pain and the poet's personal experience of it no one in particular compares beauty to jewels; compares physical attraction to boiling fluid and the restless yearning for love to restless flames; uses the metaphor of a young lion to portray the vigour and strength of love
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare English the poet's love for his mistress no one in particular parodies the hyperboles used by earlier poets in describing their lovers
