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From Shakespeare – with love

The Best of the Sonnets

Read by David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Stella Gonet, et al.

  • Release Date: 30th Mar 2009
  • Catalogue No: NA195612
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry
  • Length: 74 minutes

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William Shakespeare: The Sonnets*

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow

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Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

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Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light

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Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

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Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye

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Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any

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Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st

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Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time

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Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck

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Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come

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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

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Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws

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Sonnet 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted

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Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse

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Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old

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Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage

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Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars

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Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

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Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed

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Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

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Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts

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Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day

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Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen

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Sonnet 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done

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Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight

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Sonnet 38: How can my muse want subject to invent

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Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all

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Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

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Sonnet 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief

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Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come

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Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way

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Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made

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Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

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Sonnet 57: Being your slave what should I do but tend

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Sonnet 61: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open

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Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now

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Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

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Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view

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Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead

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Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold

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Sonnet 80: O! how I faint when I of you do write

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Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need

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Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse

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Sonnet 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing

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Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault

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Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now

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Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill

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Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away

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Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true

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Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none

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Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been

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Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide

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Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old

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Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time

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Sonnet 109: O! never say that I was false of heart

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Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds

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Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now

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Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd

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Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair

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Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st

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Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame

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Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

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Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan

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Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine

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Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near

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Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes

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Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth

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Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press

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Sonnet 141: In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes

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Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair

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Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever longing still

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Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head

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Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not

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Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep

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