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Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 52mins)
The Bard, William Shakespeare, is the supreme talent of playwriting and perhaps also of those 14 lines of verse we call the Sonnet.
The Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle was a popular form for poets in the 16th Century with masterful works by many including Sir Phillip Sidney Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton. Many others wrote sonnets interspersed amongst their other works such as John Donne and even Queen Elizabeth herself.
But ranking above all others is William Shakespeare. Some of his sonnets are known in part or whole by all of us such as Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds. Sonnet 97 ‘How long has my absence been’ and Sonnet 18 ‘Shall I compare thee to a Summers day’. Many of the others are as equal in insight, magnificence, tender expressions, sweeping statements and sheer brilliance.
Whilst in total they number 154 there is little other poetry of Shakespeare’s to compare them to unless of course the majesty of his plays is also thought of as poetry.
It matters not. Instead let us feast on these sumptuous readings as we journey together through one of the greatest experiences the English language and its son William Shakespeare have ever created.
In this compilation -
| 1 - The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare - An Introduction |
| 2 - Sonnet 1 - From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase by William Shakespeare |
| 3 - Sonnet 2 - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege thy Brow by William Shakespeare |
| 4 - Sonnet 3 - Look in Thy Glass and Tell the Face Thou Viewest by William Shakespeare |
| 5 - Sonnet 4 - Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend by William Shakespeare |
| 6 - Sonnet 5 - Those Hours That With Gentle Work Did Frame by William Shakespeare |
| 7 - Sonnet 6 - Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface by William Shakespeare |
| 8 - Sonnet 7 - Lo! In the Orient When the Gracious Light by William Shakespeare |
| 9 - Sonnet 8 - Music to Hear Why Hearest Thou Music Sadly by William Shakespeare |
| 10 - Sonnet 9 - Is It For Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye by William Shakespeare |
| 11 - Sonnet 10 - For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love to Any by William Shakespeare |
| 12 - Sonnet 11 - As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow'st by William Shakespeare |
| 13 - Sonnet 12 - When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time by William Shakespeare |
| 14 - Sonnet 13 - O That You Were Yourself; But, Love You Are by William Shakespeare |
| 15 - Sonnet 14 - Not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck by William Shakespeare |
| 16 - Sonnet 15 - When I Consider Every Thing That Grows by William Shakespeare |
| 17 - Sonnet 16 - But Wherefore Do Not You a Mightier Way by William Shakespeare |
| 18 - Sonnet 17 - Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come by William Shakespeare |
| 19 - Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare |
| 20 - Sonnet 19 - Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws by William Shakespeare |
| 21 - Sonnet 20 - A Woman's Face with Nature's Own Hand Painted by William Shakespeare |
| 22 - Sonnet 21 - So is it Not with Me As with That Muse by William Shakespeare |
| 23 - Sonnet 22 - My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old by William Shakespeare |
| 24 - Sonnet 23 - As an Unperfect Actor on the Stage by William Shakespeare |
| 25 - Sonnet 24 - Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Steeled by William Shakespeare |
| 26 - Sonnet 25 - Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars by William Shakespeare |
| 27 - Sonnet 26 - Lord of My Love, To Whom in Vassalage by Willaim Shakespeare |
| 28 - Sonnet 27 - Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed by William Shakespeare |
| 29 - Sonnet 28 - How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight by William Shakespeare |
| 30 - Sonnet 29 - When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes by William Shakespeare |
| 31 - Sonnet 30 - When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought by William Shakespeare CHECK CLICK |
| 32 - Sonnet 31 - Thy Bosom is Endeared With All Hearts by William Shakespeare |
| 33 - Sonnet 32 - If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day by William Shakespeare |
| 34 - Sonnet 33 - Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare |
| 35 - Sonnet 34 - Why Didst Thou Promise Such a Beauteous Day by William Shakespeare |
| 36 - Sonnet 35 - No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done by William Shakespeare |
| 37 - Sonnet 36 - Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain by William Shakespeare |
| 38 - Sonnet 37 - As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight by William Shakespeare |
| 39 - Sonnet 38 - How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent by William Shakespeare |
| 40 - Sonnet 39 - O! How Thy Worth with Manners May I Sing by William Shakespeare |
| 41 - Sonnet 40 - Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All by William Shakespeare |
| 42 - Sonnet 41 - Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits by William Shakespeare |
| 43 - Sonnet 42 - That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not All My Grief by William Shakespeare |
| 44 - Sonnet 43 - When Most I Wink Then Do My Eyes Best See by William Shakespeare |
| 45 - Sonnet 44 - If the Dull Substance of My Flesh Were Thought by William Shakespeare |
| 46 - Sonnet 45 - The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging Fire by William Shakespeare |
| 47 - Sonnet 46 - Mine Eye and Heart Are At a Mortal War by William Shakespeare |
| 48 - Sonnet 47 - Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League is Took by William Shakespeare |
| 49 - Sonnet 48 - How Careful Was I When I Took My Way by William Shakespeare |
| 50 - Sonnet 49 - Against That Time If Ever That Time Come by William Shakespeare |
| 51 - Sonnet 50 - How Heavy Do I Journey On the Way by William Shakespeare |
| 52 - Sonnet 51 - Thus Can My Love Excuse the Slow Offence by William Shakespeare |
| 53 - Sonnet 52 - So Am I As the Rich, Whose Blessed Key by William Shakespeare |
| 54 - Sonnet 53 - What is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made by William Shakespeare |
| 55 - Sonnet 54 - O! How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem by William Shakespeare |
| 56 - Sonnet 55 - Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments by William Shakespeare |
| 57 - Sonnet 56 - Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not Said by William Shakespeare |
| 58 - Sonnet 57 - Being Your Slave What Should I Do But Tend by William Shakespeare |
| 59 - Sonnet 58 - That God Forbid That Made Me First Your Slave by William Shakespeare |
| 60 - Sonnet 59 - If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is by William Shakespeare |
| 61 - Sonnet 60 - Like As the Waves Towards the Pebbled Shore by William Shakespeare |
| 62 - Sonnet 61 - Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open by William Shakespeare |
| 63 - Sonnet 62 - Sin of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye by William Shakespeare |
| 64 - Sonnet 63 - Against My Love Shall Be As I Am Now by William Shakespeare |
| 65 - Sonnet 64 - When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced by William Shakespeare |
| 66 - Sonnet 65 - Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea by William Shakespeare |
| 67 - Sonnet 66 - Tired With All These, For Restful Death by William Shakespeare |
| 68 - Sonnet 67 - Ah! Wherefore With Infection Should He Live by William Shakespeare |
| 69 - Sonnet 68 - Thus is His Cheek the Map of Days Outworn by William Shakespeare |
| 70 - Sonnet 69 - Those Parts of Thee That the World's Eye Doth View by William Shakespeare |
| 71 - Sonnet 70 - That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect by William Shakespeare |
| 72 - Sonnet 71 - No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead by William Shakespeare EDIT |
| 73 - Sonnet 72 - O! Lest the World Should Task You to Recite by William Shakespeare |
| 74 - Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold by William Shakespeare |
| 75 - Sonnet 74 - But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest by William Shakespeare |
| 76 - Sonnet 75 - So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life by William Shakespeare |
| 77 - Sonnet 76 - Why is My Verse So Barren of New Pride by William Shakespeare |
| 78 - Sonnet 77 - Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear by William Shakespeare |
| 79 - Sonnet 78 - So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse by William Shakespeare |
| 80 - Sonnet 79 - Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid by William Shakespeare |
| 81 - Sonnet 80 - O! How I Faint When I of You Do Write by William Shakespeare |
| 82 - Sonnet 81 - Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make by William Shakespeare |
| 83 - Sonnet 82 - I Grant Thou Were Not Married To My Muse by William Shakespeare |
| 84 - Sonnet 83 - I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need by William Shakespeare |
| 85 - Sonnet 84 - Who Is It That Says Most, Which Can Say More by William Shakespeare |
| 86 - Sonnet 85 - My Tongue-tied Muse in Manners Holds Her Still by William Shakespeare |
| 87 - Sonnet 86 - Was It the Proud Full Sail of His Great Verse by William Shakespeare SAYS 84 |
| 88 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing by William Shakespeare |
| 89 - Sonnet 88 - When Thou Shalt Be Disposed To Set Me Light by William Shakespeare |
| 90 - Sonnet 89 - Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me For Some Fault by William Shakespeare |
| 91 - Sonnet 90 - Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now by William Shakespeare |
| 92 - Sonnet 91 - Some Glory In Their Birth, Some In Their Skill by William Shakespeare |
| 93 - Sonnet 92 - But Do Thy Worst to Steal Thyself Away by William Shakespeare |
| 94 - Sonnet 93. So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True by William Shakespeare |
| 95 - Sonnet 94 - They That Have Power To Hurt and Will Do None by William Shakespeare |
| 96 - Sonnet 95 - How Sweet and Lovely Dost Make the Shame by William Shakespeare |
| 97 - Sonnet 96 - Some Say Thy Fault is Youth, Some Wantonness by William Shakespeare |
| 98 - Sonnet 97 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been by William Shakespeare |
| 99 - Sonnet 98 - From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring by William Shakespeare |
| 100 - Sonnet 99 - The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide by William Shakespeare |
| 101 - Sonnet 100 - Where Art Thou Muse That Thou Forget'st So Long by William Shakespeare |
| 102 - Sonnet 101 - O Truant Muse What Shall Be Thy Amends by William Shakespeare |
| 103 - Sonnet 102 - My Love Is Strengthened, Though More Weak in Seeming by William Shakespeare |
| 104 - Sonnet 103 -Alack! What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth by William Shakespeare |
| 105 - Sonnet 104 - To Me, Fair Friend You Never Can Be Old by William Shakespeare |
| 106 - Sonnet 105 - Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry by William Shakespeare |
| 107 - Sonnet 106 -When In The Chronicle of Wasted Time by William Shakespeare |
| 108 - Sonnet 107 - Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul by William Shakespeare |
| 109 - Sonnet 108 - What's in the Brain That Ink May Character by William Shakespeare |
| 110 - Sonnet 109 - O! Never Say That I Was False of Heart by William Shakespeare |
| 111 - Sonnet 110 - Alas! 'Tis True I Have Gone Here and There by William Shakespeare |
| 112 - Sonnet 111 - O, For My Sake Do You with Fortune Chide by William Shakespeare |
| 113 - Sonnet 112 - Your Love and Pity Doth the Impression Fill by William Shakespeare |
| 114 - Sonnet 113 - Since I Left You, Mine Eye is in My Mind by William Shakespeare |
| 115 - Sonnet 114 - Or Whether Doth My Mind, Being Crowned With You by William Shakespeare |
| 116 - Sonnet 115 - Those Lines That I Before Have Writ Do Lie by William Shakespeare |
| 117 - Sonnet 116 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William_Shakespeare |
| 118 - Sonnet 117 - Accuse Me Thus, That I Have Scanted All by William Shakespeare |
| 119 - Sonnet 118 - Like As, To Make Our Appetites More Keen by William Shakespeare |
| 120 - Sonnet 119 - What Potions Have I Drunk of Siren Tears by William Shakespeare |
| 121 - Sonnet 120 - That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now by William Shakespeare |
| 122 - Sonnet 121 - 'Tis Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed by William Shakespeare |
| 123 - Sonnet 122 - Thy Gift,Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain by William Shakespeare |
| 124 - Sonnet 123 - No, Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I Do Change by William Shakespeare |
| 125 - Sonnet 124 - If My dear Love Were But the Child of State by Wiliam Shakespeare |
| 126 - Sonnet 125 - Were't Aught To Me I Bore The Canopy by William Shakespeare |
| 127 - Sonnet 126 - O Thou, My Lovely Boy, Who in Thy Power by William Shakespeare |
| 128 - Sonnet 127 - In the Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair by William Shakespeare |
| 129 - Sonnet 128 - How Oft When Thou My Music, Music Play'st by William Shakespeare |
| 130 - Sonnet 129 - The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame by William Shakespeare |
| 131 - Sonnet 130 - My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun by William Shakespeare |
| 132 - Sonnet 131 - Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art by William Shakespeare |
| 133 - Sonnet 132 - Thine Eyes I Love, and They, As Pitying Me by William Shakespeare |
| 134 - Sonnet 133 - Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart To Groan by William Shakespeare |
| 135 - Sonnet 134 - So Now I Have Confessed That He is Thine by William Shakespeare |
| 136 - Sonnet 135 - Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will by William Shakespeare |
| 137 - Sonnet 136 - If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So Near by William Shakespeare |
| 138 - Sonnet 137 -Thou Blind Fool, Love What Dost Thou to Mine Eyes by William Shakespeare |
| 139 - Sonnet 138. When My Love Swears That She Is Made of Truth by William Shakespeare missing title |
| 140 - Sonnet 139 - O! Call Not Me to Justify the Wrong by William Shakespeare |
| 141 - Sonnet 140 - Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel; Do Not Press by William Shakespeare |
| 142 - Sonnet 141 - In Faith I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes by William Shakespeare |
| 143 - Sonnet 142 - Love Is My Sin And Thy Dear Virtue Hate by William Shakespeare |
| 144 - Sonnet 143 - Lo, As a Careful Housewife Runs to Catch by Willaim Shakespeare |
| 145 - Sonnet 144 - Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair by William Shakespeare |
| 146 - Sonnet 145 - Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make by William Shakespeare |
| 147 - Sonnet 146 - Poor Soul, the Centre of My Sinful Earth by William Shakespeare |
| 148 - Sonnet 147 - My Love is as a Fever by William Shakespeare |
| 149 - Sonnet 148 - O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put In My Head by William Shakespeare |
| 150 - Sonnet 149 - Canst Thou, O Cruel! Say I Love Thee Not by William Shakespeare |
| 151 - Sonnet 150 - O! From What Power Hast Thou This Powerful Might by William Shakespeare |
| 152 - Sonnet 151 - Love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is by William Shakespeare |
| 153 - Sonnet 152 - In Loving Thee Now Know'st I Am Forsworn by William Shakespeare |
| 154 - Sonnet 153 - Cupid Laid By His Brand and Fell Asleep by William Shakespeare |
| 155 - Sonnet 154 - The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep by William Shakespeare |
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