1. Petrarch, ‘Sonnet 90’, in Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works, trans. Mark Musa (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), 38.
2. Philip Sidney, ‘Sonnet 9’, in Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works, ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 156.
3. Edmund Spenser, ‘Sonnet XV’, in Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition, ed. Kenneth J. Larsen (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997), 74.
4. John Donne, ‘Elegy 14’, in John Donne’s Poetry, ed. Donald R. Dickson (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2007), 41–4.
5. John Milton, Paradise Lost, in John Milton: The Complete Poems, ed. John Leonard (London: Penguin, 1998), line 4.298.