1847 first version, "The Blessed Damozel"

"My Sister's Sleep" (1847-49)

"For an Annunciation"

Sonnet 90, "The House of Life"

1848 early version "Jenny"

"The Bride's Prelude," also 1859 (poss. also 1880?)

"House of Life" sonnets 71-73"

"For Our Lady of the Rocks"

1849 "For a Venetian Pastoral"

HL, sonnets 74-76

1850 "Burden of Nineveh," altered 1856

HL, sonnet 69 ("Autumn Idleness")

1851 "Sister Helen," altered 1880

1852 HL, sonnet 47

1853 HL, sonnets 65, 70

1854 HL, sonnets 15, 67

1855 HL, sonnet 68

1856 revised "Burden of Nineveh"

1859 "The French Liberation of Italy"

"The House of Life"

I. Early period: 1849-67 (18 sonnets)

moralistic sonnets of 40s; regretful sonnets of failed opportunity, 50s

15, 47, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 86, 90, 91

II. 1868-70 (42 sonnets)

2. 3, 4, 6, 6a, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 21, 23, 25, 36, 37, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 63, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 92 and 93 (1869-73), 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101

III. 1871-73 (37 sonnets)

1, 5, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 53, 54, 59, 60, 62, 64, 66, 80, 81, 88, 89, 89, 96

IV. Late period 1874-81 (6 sonnets)

sonnets on the nature of beauty, literary achievement--emphasis on the formal and ornate

Introductory sonnet, 56, 57, 58, 61, 94