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William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (unabridged)

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William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (unabridged)

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (unabridged)

Read by Alex Jennings

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Everyone knows something of Shakespeare’s sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like ‘the darling buds of may’ or ‘remembrance of things past’ ‘the marriage of minds’. For centuries these wonderfully-crafted, intense lyrics have stood for something valued about youth, love and the emotional complexities belonging to that time of life. This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.

  • Release date: 31st Oct 2000
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry
  • Catalogue number: NA314512
  • Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Contents and tracklist

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets*
Work length3:08:08
Opening Music
Track length1:12
Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
Track length1:01
Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
Track length1:05
Sonnet 3: Look In Thy Glass And Tell The Face Thou Viewest
Track length1:00
Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
Track length1:01
Sonnet 5: Those Hours That With Gentle Work Did Frame
Track length1:01
Sonnet 6: Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface
Track length0:59
Sonnet 7: Lo In The Orient When The Gracious Light
Track length1:00
Sonnet 8: Music To hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly
Track length1:01
Musical Interlude
Track length0:42
Sonnet 9: Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow's Eye
Track length1:00
Sonnet 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any
Track length0:59
Sonnet 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow'st
Track length1:06
Sonnet 12: When I Do Recount The Clock That Tells The Time
Track length1:01
Sonnet 13: O That You Were Your Self! But, Love, You Are
Track length0:59
Sonnet 14: Not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck
Track length1:00
Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows
Track length1:00
Sonnet 16: But Wherefore Do Not You A Mightier Way
Track length0:58
Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse In Time To Come
Track length0:56
Musical Interlude
Track length1:05
Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
Track length1:02
Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws
Track length1:01
Sonnet 20: A Woman's Face With Nature's Own Hand Painted
Track length1:06
Sonnet 21: So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse
Track length0:59
Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
Track length0:58
Sonnet 23: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage
Track length0:59
Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled
Track length1:00
Musical Interlude
Track length1:40
Sonnet 25: Let Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars
Track length0:55
Sonnet 26: Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage
Track length0:58
Sonnet 27: Weary With Toil, I Haste To Go To My Bed
Track length1:04
Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return In Happy Plight
Track length1:01
Sonnet 29: When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes
Track length0:59
Sonnet 30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Through
Track length1:03
Sonnet 31: Thy Bosom Is Endeared With All Hearts
Track length0:56
Sonnet 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contended Day
Track length0:59
Musical Interlude
Track length0:42
Sonnet 33: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen
Track length1:00
Sonnet 34: Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day
Track length0:59
Sonnet 35: No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done
Track length1:01
Sonnet 36: Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain
Track length1:00
Sonnet 37: As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight
Track length0:59
Sonnet 38: How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent
Track length0:57
Sonnet 39: O How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing
Track length1:00
Sonnet 40: Tale All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All
Track length1:07
Sonnet 41: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
Track length1:00
Sonnet 42: That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not All My Grief
Track length1:09
Musical Interlude
Track length1:07
Sonnet 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
Track length1:04
Sonnet 44: If The Dull Substance Of My Flesh Were Thought
Track length1:02
Sonnet 45: The Other Two, Slight Air And Purging Fire
Track length0:59
Sonnet 46: Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War
Track length1:00
Sonnet 47: Betwixt Mine Eye And Heart A League Is Took
Track length1:04
Sonnet 48: How Careful Was I, When I Took My Way
Track length1:02
Sonnet 49: Against That Time (If Ever That Time Come)
Track length1:00
Sonnet 50: How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way
Track length0:54
Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence
Track length1:01
Musical Interlude
Track length1:18
Sonnet 52: So Am I As The Rich Whose Blessed Key
Track length0:54
Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
Track length1:01
Sonnet 54: O How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
Track length1:02
Sonnet 55: Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments
Track length0:57
Sonnet 56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be It Not Said
Track length1:01
Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend
Track length0:58
Sonnet 58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave
Track length1:06
Musical Interlude
Track length1:10
Musical Interlude
Track length1:38
Sonnet 59: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is
Track length0:55
Sonnet 60: Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore
Track length1:07
Sonnet 61: Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open
Track length1:08
Sonnet 62: Sin Of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye
Track length1:01
Sonnet 63: Against All My Love Shall Be As I Am Now
Track length1:00
Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced
Track length1:04
Sonnet 65: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
Track length1:03
Musical Interlude
Track length1:33
Sonnet 66: Tired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry
Track length1:05
Sonnet 67: Ah Wherefore With Infection Should He Live
Track length1:04
Sonnet 68: Thus Is His Cheek The Map Of Days Outworn
Track length0:54
Sonnet 69: Those Parts Of Thee That The World's Eye Doth View
Track length1:02
Sonnet 70: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect
Track length1:03
Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead
Track length0:58
Sonnet 72: O Lest The World Should Ask You To Recite
Track length1:00
Musical Interlude
Track length2:04
Sonnet 73: That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
Track length1:04
Sonnet 74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest
Track length1:01
Sonnet 75: So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life
Track length1:02
Sonnet 76: Why Is My Verse So Barren Of New Pride?
Track length1:03
Sonnet 77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear
Track length1:01
Musical Interlude
Track length0:47
Sonnet 78: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse
Track length1:04
Sonnet 79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid
Track length1:00
Sonnet 80: O How I Faint When I Of You Do Write
Track length1:02
Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make
Track length1:01
Sonnet 82: I Grant Thou Wert Not Married To My Muse
Track length0:57
Sonnet 83: I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need
Track length0:57
Sonnet 84: Who Is It That Says Most Which Can Say More
Track length1:03
Sonnet 85: My Toungue-tied Muse In Manners Holds Her Still
Track length1:08
Sonnet 86: Was It The Proud Sail Of His Great Verse
Track length0:58
Musical Interlude
Track length1:39
Sonnet 87: Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
Track length1:00
Sonnet 88: When Thou Shalt Be Disposed To Set Me Light
Track length1:08
Sonnet 89: Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me For Some Fault
Track length1:00
Sonnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt, If Ever, Now
Track length1:03
Sonnet 91: Some Glory In Their Birth, Some, Some in Their Skill
Track length1:08
Sonnet 92: But Do Thy worst To Steal Thyself Away
Track length1:02
Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True
Track length1:08
Sonnet 94: They That Have Pow'r To Hurt, And Will Do None
Track length1:09
Sonnet 95: How Sweet And Lovely Dost Thou Make The Shame
Track length1:08
Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness
Track length1:08
Musical Interlude
Track length1:02
Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
Track length0:59
Sonnet 98: From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring
Track length1:00
Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide
Track length1:04
Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget'st So Long
Track length1:04
Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends
Track length1:05
Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strength'ned, Though Weak In Seeming
Track length1:01
Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth
Track length0:59
Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old
Track length1:09
Musical Interlude
Track length1:31
Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love
Track length1:05
Sonnet 106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time
Track length0:59
Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul
Track length1:09
Sonnet 108: What's In the Brain That Ink May Character
Track length0:59
Sonnet 109: O Never Say That I Was False Of Heart
Track length1:02
Sonnet 110: Alas 'Tis True, I Have Gone Here And There
Track length1:09
Sonnet 111: O For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide
Track length1:02
Sonnet 112: Your Love And Pity Doth Th'Impression Fill
Track length1:03
Musical Interlude
Track length1:17
Opening Music
Track length1:52
Sonnet 113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind
Track length0:58
Sonnet 114: Or Whether Doth My Mind Being Crowned With You
Track length1:07
Sonnet 115: Those Lines That I Before Have Write To Lie
Track length1:13
Sonnet 116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
Track length1:04
Sonnet 117: Accuse Me Thus: That I Have Scanted All
Track length1:03
Sonnet 118: Like As To Make Our Appetites More Keen
Track length1:05
Sonnet 119: What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears
Track length1:03
Sonnet 120: That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now
Track length1:05
Sonnet 121: 'Tis Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed
Track length0:57
Musical Interlude
Track length0:48
Sonnet 122: Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain
Track length0:58
Sonnet 123: No! Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I Do Change
Track length0:56
Sonnet 124: If My Dear Love Were But The Child Of State
Track length1:03
Sonnet 125: Were't Aught To Me I Bore The Canopy
Track length1:06
Sonnet 126: O Thou My Lovely Boy, Who Are In Thy Power
Track length0:56
Musical Interlude
Track length0:45
Sonnet 127: In The Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair
Track length1:04
Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st
Track length1:04
Sonnet 129: Th'Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame
Track length1:03
Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
Track length1:01
Sonnet 131: Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art
Track length1:02
Sonnet 132: Thine Eyes I Love, And They, As Pitying Me
Track length0:59
Sonnet 133: Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart To Groan
Track length1:05
Musical Interlude
Track length1:06
Sonnet 134: So Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine
Track length1:07
Sonnet 135: Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will
Track length1:06
Sonnet 136: If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So Near
Track length1:09
Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou To Mine Eyes
Track length1:07
Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth
Track length1:08
Sonnet 139: O Call Not Me To Justify The Wrong
Track length1:02
Sonnet 140: Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel, Do Not Press
Track length1:03
Musical Interlude
Track length1:05
Sonnet 141: In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes
Track length1:08
Sonnet 142: Love Is My Sin, And Thy Dear Virtue Hate
Track length1:05
Sonnet 143: Lo, As A Careful Huswife Runs To Catch
Track length0:59
Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair
Track length1:09
Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make
Track length0:53
Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth
Track length1:10
Sonnet 147: My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still
Track length1:01
Musical Interlude
Track length1:13
Sonnet 148: O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put In My Head
Track length1:07
Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel, Say I Love Thee Not
Track length1:01
Sonnet 150: O From What Pow'r Hast Thou This Pow'rful Might
Track length1:02
Sonnet 151: Love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is
Track length1:10
Sonnet 152: In Loving Thee By His Brand And Fell Asleep
Track length1:08
Sonnet 153: Cupid Laid By His Brand And Fell Asleep
Track length1:08
Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
Track length1:07
Closing Music
Track length1:18
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