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Shakespeare's Sonnets

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  • 01
    From fairest creatures we desire increase
    Read by Daniel Brennan
  • 02
    When forty winters shall beseige thy brow
    Read by Nick Dunning
  • 03
    Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
    Read by Michael Bendib
  • 04
    Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
    Read by Sam Holland
  • 05
    Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
    Read by Hannah Stokely
  • 06
    Then let not Winter's ragged hand deface
    Read by Emma Fenney
  • 07
    Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
    Performed by Jump For Neon
  • 08
    Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
    Read by Liza Sadovy
  • 09
    Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
    Read by Avril Poole
  • 10
    For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
    Read by Roger Carvalho
  • 11
    As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
    Read by Olga Sosnowska
  • 12
    When I do count the clock that tells the time,
    Read by Kirsty Oswald
  • 13
    13 - O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are
    Bari Goddard & Steve Maguire
  • 14
    Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
    Read by George Oliver
  • 15
    When I consider every thing that grows
    Read by Helen Watkinson
  • 16
    But wherefore do not you a mightier way
    Read by Sendhil Ramamurthy
  • 17
    Who will believe my verse in time to come,
    Read by Andre Skeete
  • 18
    Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
    Read by Bob Barrett
  • 19
    Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
    Read by Scott Oswald
  • 20
    A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted
    Read by Greg Hicks
  • 21
    So is it not with me as with that Muse,
    Read by Kim Burnett
  • 22
    My glass shall not persuade me I am old
    Read by Lainey Shaw
  • 23
    As an unperfect actor on the stage
    Read by Colin Baker
  • 24
    Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
    Read by Simon Naylor
  • 26
    Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
    Read by Abi Harris
  • 27
    Weary with toil I haste me to my bed
    Read by Jason Eddy
  • 28
    How can I then return in happy plight,
    Read by Heather Coombs
  • 29
    When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
    Read by Kenneth Cranham
  • 30
    When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought
    Read by Thomas Michaelson
  • 31
    Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
    Read by Isabel Ford
  • 32
    If thou survive my well-contented day,
    Read by Clare Aster
  • 33
    Full many a glorious morning have I seen
    Read by Ben Whishaw
  • 34
    Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
    Read by Miriam Babooram
  • 35
    No more be grieved atthat which thou hast done:
    Read by Rosie Ede
  • 36
    Let me confess that we two must be twain
    Read by Liza Sadovy
  • 40
    Take all my loves, my love yea take them all
    Read by Tamarin McGinley
  • 43
    When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
    Read by Andrea Mason
  • 44
    If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
    Read by Fred Fergus
  • 46
    Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
    Read by Mina Anwar
  • 47
    Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
    Performed by Coco Mbassi
  • 48
    How careful was I when I took my way,
    Read by Samuel John
  • 50
    How heavy do I journey on the way
    Read by Tom Butcher
  • 53
    What is your substance, whereof are you made,
    Read by Mark Elstob
  • 54
    O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
    Read by Joshua Manning
  • 55
    Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
    Read by David Morrissey
  • 56
    Sweet love renew thy force. Be it not said
    Read by Thomas Michaelson
  • 57
    Being you slave what should I do but tend
    Read by Eleanor Barrett
  • 60
    Like as the waves make to the pebbled shore
    Read by Emily Stride
  • 61
    Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
    Read by Hannah Stokely
  • 63
    Against my love shall be as I am now,
    Read by David Calder
  • 64
    When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
    Read by Amanda Osborne
  • 65
    Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
    Read by Jamie Laird
  • 66
    Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry
    Performed by Vessels
  • 68
    Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
    Read by Rosie Baker
  • 71
    No longer mourn for me when I am dead
    Read by Helen Millar
  • 72
    O! lest the world should task you to recite
    Read by Joe Eyre
  • 74
    But be contented: when that fell arrest
    Read by Michael Shon
  • 75
    So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
    Read by Rebecca Charles
  • 76
    Why is my verse so barren of new pride?
    Read by Jade Williams
  • 77
    Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
    Read by Jayne Edwards
  • 80
    O! how I faint when I of you do write,
    Read by Rosie Ede
  • 81
    Or I shall live your epitaph to make,
    Read by Abi Harris
  • 83
    I never saw that you did painting need,
    Read by Kit Young
  • 85
    My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,
    Read by Delroy Atkinson
  • 88
    When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,
    Read by Rufus Hound
  • 90
    Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
    Read by Heather Coombs
  • 94
    They that have power to hurt and will do none
    Read by Mark Desebrock
  • 95
    How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
    Read by Seamus O'Neill
  • 98
    From you have I been absent in the spring,
    Read by David Calder
  • 102
    My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;
    Read by Carol Macready
  • 103
    Alack! What poverty my muse brings forth
    Read by Will Travis
  • 104
    To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
    Read by Rachel Baynton
  • 106
    When in the chronicle of wasted time
    Read by Carol Macready
  • 108
    What's in the brain that ink may character
    Read by Joe Eyre
  • 109
    O, never say that I was false of heart,
    Read by Amanda Drew
  • 115
    Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
    Read by Zachary Hart
  • 116
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Read by Brian Doherty
  • 120
    That you were once unkind befriends me now,
    Read by Christopher Tester
  • 121
    'Tis better to be vile, than vile esteemed,
    Read by Michael Shon
  • 123
    No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
    Read by Felicity Houlbrooke
  • 127
    In the old age black was not counted fair,
    Read by Kashelle Taylor
  • 128
    How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,
    Read by Cliff Burnett
  • 129
    The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
    Read by Daniel Flynn
  • 130
    My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
    Read by Ellis Jones
  • 132
    Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
    Read by Michelle Fairley
  • 134
    So now I have confessed that he is thine,
    Read by Leila Farzad
  • 136
    If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
    Read by Kit Young
  • 138
    When my love swears that she is made of truth
    Read by James Burton
  • 139
    O, call not me to justify the wrong
    Read by Karren Winchester
  • 141
    In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
    Read by Katherine Kingsley
  • 142
    Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
    Read by Georgia Christodoulou
  • 144
    Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
    Read by Alexandra Maxwell
  • 145
    Those lips that Love's own hand did make
    Read by Verity Henry
  • 147
    My love is as a fever, longing still
    Read by Claire Skinner
  • 148
    O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
    Read by Leaphia Darko
  • 149
    Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,
    Read by Adjoa Andoh
  • 150
    O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,
    Read by Linda Beckett
  • 151
    Love is too young to know what conscience is,
    Read by Anthony Cozens
  • 152
    In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
    Read by Deborah Wastell
  • 153
    Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
    Read by David J McChrystal
  • 154
    The little Love god lying once asleep
    Read by Corrinne Wicks