Sonnets – tomik angielskiego polityka i poety Johna Hanmera (1809-1881)^[1], opublikowany w 1840 w Londynie nakładem oficyny Edwarda Moxona. Zbiorek zawiera 59 utworów, w tym liryki England, America, Petrarca, Bertrand de Born, The Steam-Boat, Winter in the Riviera of Genoa, The Two Columns, The Widow of Ephesua, To the Fountain at Frascati, A Way-Side Landscape in Italy, Silence i To the Chartists, jak również The Millennium, Ciullo of Alcamo, Origin of New Languages, Chaucer, Romeo, Written on an Old Spanish Chronicle, Winter i The Spider.

If any of the Araehnean race,

Fat and well-filled be near, let him beware

Of thee, old Spider; with such stealthy pace

That travellest through the frore autumnal air:

So fierce a hunger drives thee from thy lair,

To feed like Ugolino on thy kind;

Rapine is all before thee; and behind

Thy broken web — that on its film doth bear

Thick drops of cold uncomfortable dew,

Like those which on the dying leaves are spread.

The flies creep doors and window corners through;

Gaunt are thy sides — no more by tree or shed,

Can they that pensile; citadel renew,

In which thy gluttonous youth so full was fed.

(The Spider)

• John Hanmer: Sonnets. Archive.org. [dostęp 2017-04-15]. (ang.).

• John Hanmer (1809-1881): Sonnets. sonnets.org. [dostęp 2017-04-15]. (ang.).