Shakespeare, W.: Sonnets (The) (Unabridged)

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October 31, 1997
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
    • PERFORMER
      Alex, Jennings
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 31, 1997
    • UPC
      9789626341452
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NA314512
    • LABEL
      Naxos AudioBooks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Opening Music

    2. Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase

    3. Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow

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

    5. Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend

    6. Sonnet 5: Those Hours That With Gentle Work Did Frame

    7. Sonnet 6: Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface

    8. Sonnet 7: Lo In The Orient When The Gracious Light

    9. Sonnet 8: Music To hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly

    10. Musical Interlude

    11. Sonnet 9: Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow's Eye

    12. Sonnet 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any

    13. Sonnet 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow'st

    14. Sonnet 12: When I Do Recount The Clock That Tells The Time

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

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

    17. Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows

    18. Sonnet 16: But Wherefore Do Not You A Mightier Way

    19. Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse In Time To Come

    20. Musical Interlude

    21. Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

    22. Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paws

    23. Sonnet 20: A Woman's Face With Nature's Own Hand Painted

    24. Sonnet 21: So Is It Not With Me As With That Muse

    25. Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old

    26. Sonnet 23: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage

    27. Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Played The Painter And Hath Stelled

    28. Musical Interlude

    29. Sonnet 25: Let Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars

    30. Sonnet 26: Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage

    31. Sonnet 27: Weary With Toil, I Haste To Go To My Bed

    32. Sonnet 28: How Can I Then Return In Happy Plight

    33. Sonnet 29: When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes

    34. Sonnet 30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Through

    35. Sonnet 31: Thy Bosom Is Endeared With All Hearts

    36. Sonnet 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contended Day

    37. Musical Interlude

    38. Sonnet 33: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen

    39. Sonnet 34: Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day

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

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

    42. Sonnet 37: As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight

    43. Sonnet 38: How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent

    44. Sonnet 39: O How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing

    45. Sonnet 40: Tale All My Loves, My Love, Yea, Take Them All

    46. Sonnet 41: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits

    47. Sonnet 42: That Thou Hast Her, It Is Not All My Grief

    48. Musical Interlude

    49. Sonnet 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See

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

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

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

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

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

    55. Sonnet 49: Against That Time (If Ever That Time Come)

    56. Sonnet 50: How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way

    57. Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence

    58. Musical Interlude

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

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

    61. Sonnet 54: O How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem

    62. Sonnet 55: Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments

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

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

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

    66. Musical Interlude

    67. Musical Interlude

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    75. Musical Interlude

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

    77. Sonnet 67: Ah Wherefore With Infection Should He Live

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

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

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

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

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

    83. Musical Interlude

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

    85. Sonnet 74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest

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

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

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

    89. Musical Interlude

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

    91. Sonnet 79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid

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

    93. Sonnet 81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make

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

    95. Sonnet 83: I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need

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

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

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

    99. Musical Interlude

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

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

    102. Sonnet 89: Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me For Some Fault

    103. Sonnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt, If Ever, Now

    104. Sonnet 91: Some Glory In Their Birth, Some, Some in Their Skill

    105. Sonnet 92: But Do Thy worst To Steal Thyself Away

    106. Sonnet 93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True

    107. Sonnet 94: They That Have Pow'r To Hurt, And Will Do None

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

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

    110. Musical Interlude

    111. Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been

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

    113. Sonnet 99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide

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

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

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

    117. Sonnet 103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth

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

    119. Musical Interlude

    120. Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love

    121. Sonnet 106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time

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

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

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

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

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

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

    128. Musical Interlude

    129. Opening Music

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

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

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

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

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

    135. Sonnet 118: Like As To Make Our Appetites More Keen

    136. Sonnet 119: What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears

    137. Sonnet 120: That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now

    138. Sonnet 121: 'Tis Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed

    139. Musical Interlude

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

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

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

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

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

    145. Musical Interlude

    146. Sonnet 127: In The Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair

    147. Sonnet 128: How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st

    148. Sonnet 129: Th'Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame

    149. Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun

    150. Sonnet 131: Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art

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

    152. Sonnet 133: Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart To Groan

    153. Musical Interlude

    154. Sonnet 134: So Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine

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

    156. Sonnet 136: If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So Near

    157. Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou To Mine Eyes

    158. Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth

    159. Sonnet 139: O Call Not Me To Justify The Wrong

    160. Sonnet 140: Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel, Do Not Press

    161. Musical Interlude

    162. Sonnet 141: In Faith, I Do Not Love Thee With Mine Eyes

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

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

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

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

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

    168. Sonnet 147: My Love Is As A Fever, Longing Still

    169. Musical Interlude

    170. Sonnet 148: O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put In My Head

    171. Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel, Say I Love Thee Not

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

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

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

    175. Sonnet 153: Cupid Laid By His Brand And Fell Asleep

    176. Sonnet 154: The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep

    177. Closing Music


Everyone knows something of Shakespeare' sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of may' or 'remembrance of things past' 'the marriage of minds'.