Sonnet Enthusiast Mugs

William Wordsworth.

"Before the defense rests, my client would like to read you a little sonnet he composed about his love for the jury."

Thomas Wyatt

Concert Pianist.

'He went in for the Worst Singer and won first prize in the Gurning competition at the same time!'

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

Never write a sonnet on an empty stomach

Poetry in motion - Runners quoting poems as they jog.

Shakespeare working on his "author's bio"

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

Poetry repairman

Tenors

'Just tell him two quarts of milk and a pint of cream, Will- it doesn't have to be a sonnet.'

Poetry Buff.

William Shakespeare

Pirate King

A singer being criticised

The Poet.

Jean Sibelius.

'Major poets' 'Minor poets' 'Free agents'

"Okay, so I got rid of the owl.."

'Uh-oh, here comes the mike again. Cut the barbershop quartet and go back to mournful whistling.'

Well, it's not my fault if nobody bothered to tune the microphone.'

Algernon Swinburne

4 Rules For 'Serious' Poets

'Oh, come on, Bill, surely you can do better than 'there was an old lady from Nantucket!''

"I can write beautiful poems, but they all rhyme with gin."

In the days before Newton discovered gravity...

Cows warming up.

"...and so I left Wall Street and made a killing in poetry."

Syd Barrett.

Alexander Blok

"Dad, it's only a surveillance camera."

"Wine and women are off but can sing as much as you like!"

"Tonight I shall be humming Chopin's Sonata..."