Lyric poetry

Lyric poetry appears in a variety of forms, the most popular of which is arguably the sonnet: traditionally, a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter. ("lyric poetry")

Some of the most popular authors that wrote lyric poetry include William Shakespeare or perhaps Sir Thomas Waynne. They both helped popularize the classical form of sonnet for English audiences. William Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much With Us” is a great example of a sonnet.  ("lyric poetry").

Here is a specific example of a sonnet by proably one of the greatest poets of all time, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18.

"By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed." 

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.

    So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. "

("Sonnet 18")