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William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (unabridged)

Read by Alex Jennings

  • Release Date: 31st Oct 2000
  • Catalogue No: NA314512
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry
  • Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

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William Shakespeare: The Sonnets*

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Opening Music

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Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase

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Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow

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Sonnet 3: Look In Thy Glass And Tell The Face Thou Viewest

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Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend

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Sonnet 5: Those Hours That With Gentle Work Did Frame

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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 Recount The Clock That Tells The Time

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Sonnet 13: O That You Were Your Self! But, Love, You Are

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Sonnet 14: Not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck

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Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows

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Sonnet 16: But Wherefore Do Not You A Mightier Way

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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 24: Mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled

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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 To Go To My Bed

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Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return In Happy Plight

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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 Through

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Sonnet 31: Thy Bosom Is Endeared With All Hearts

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Sonnet 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contended Day

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Sonnet 33: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen

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Sonnet 34: Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day

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Sonnet 35: No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done

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Sonnet 36: Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain

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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 39: O How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing

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Sonnet 40: Tale 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 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See

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Sonnet 44: If The Dull Substance Of My Flesh Were Thought

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Sonnet 45: The Other Two, Slight Air And Purging Fire

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Sonnet 46: Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War

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Sonnet 47: Betwixt Mine Eye And Heart A League Is Took

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Sonnet 48: How Careful Was I, When I Took My Way

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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 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence

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Sonnet 52: So Am I As The Rich Whose Blessed Key

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Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made

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Sonnet 54: O How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem

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Sonnet 55: Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments

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Sonnet 56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be It Not Said

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Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend

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Sonnet 58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave

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Sonnet 59: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is

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Sonnet 60: Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore

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Sonnet 61: Is It Thy Will Thy Image Should Keep Open

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Sonnet 62: Sin Of Self-Love Possesseth All Mine Eye

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Sonnet 63: Against All My Love Shall Be As I Am Now

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Sonnet 64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced

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Sonnet 65: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea

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Sonnet 66: Tired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry

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Sonnet 67: Ah Wherefore With Infection Should He Live

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Sonnet 68: Thus Is His Cheek The Map Of Days Outworn

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Sonnet 69: Those Parts Of Thee That The World's Eye Doth View

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Sonnet 70: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect

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Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead

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Sonnet 72: O Lest The World Should Ask You To Recite

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Sonnet 73: That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold

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Sonnet 74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest

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Sonnet 75: So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life

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Sonnet 76: Why Is My Verse So Barren Of New Pride?

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Sonnet 77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear

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Sonnet 78: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse

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Sonnet 79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid

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Sonnet 80: O How I Faint When I Of You Do Write

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Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make

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Sonnet 82: I Grant Thou Wert Not Married To My Muse

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Sonnet 83: I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need

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Sonnet 84: Who Is It That Says Most Which Can Say More

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Sonnet 85: My Toungue-tied Muse In Manners Holds Her Still

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Sonnet 86: Was It The Proud Sail Of His Great Verse

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Sonnet 87: Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing

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Sonnet 88: When Thou Shalt Be Disposed To Set Me Light

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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, 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 Pow'r To Hurt, And Will Do None

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Sonnet 95: How Sweet And Lovely Dost Thou Make The Shame

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Sonnet 96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness

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Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been

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Sonnet 98: From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring

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Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide

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Sonnet 100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget'st So Long

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Sonnet 101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends

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Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strength'ned, Though Weak In Seeming

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Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth

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Sonnet 104: To Me, Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old

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Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love

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Sonnet 106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time

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Sonnet 107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul

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Sonnet 108: What's In the Brain That Ink May Character

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Sonnet 109: O Never Say That I Was False Of Heart

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Sonnet 110: Alas 'Tis True, I Have Gone Here And There

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Sonnet 111: O For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide

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Sonnet 112: Your Love And Pity Doth Th'Impression Fill

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Opening Music

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Sonnet 113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind

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Sonnet 114: Or Whether Doth My Mind Being Crowned With You

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Sonnet 115: Those Lines That I Before Have Write To Lie

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Sonnet 116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds

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Sonnet 117: Accuse Me Thus: That I Have Scanted All

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Sonnet 118: Like As To Make Our Appetites More Keen

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Sonnet 119: What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears

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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 Esteemed

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Sonnet 122: Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain

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Sonnet 123: No! Time, Thou Shalt Not Boast That I Do Change

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Sonnet 124: If My Dear Love Were But The Child Of State

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Sonnet 125: Were't Aught To Me I Bore The Canopy

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Sonnet 126: O Thou My Lovely Boy, Who Are In Thy Power

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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: Th'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 131: Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art

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Sonnet 132: Thine Eyes I Love, And They, As Pitying Me

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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 Confessed That He Is Thine

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Sonnet 135: Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will

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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 139: O Call Not Me To Justify The Wrong

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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 142: Love Is My Sin, And Thy Dear Virtue Hate

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Sonnet 143: Lo, As A Careful Huswife Runs To Catch

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Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair

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Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make

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Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth

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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 150: O From What Pow'r Hast Thou This Pow'rful Might

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Sonnet 151: Love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is

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Sonnet 152: In Loving Thee By His Brand And Fell Asleep

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Sonnet 153: Cupid Laid By His Brand And Fell Asleep

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Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep

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Closing Music

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