Audio Book Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (MP3 CD Run Time 2.7 hours)
Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.: Never before imprinted. (although sonnets 138 and 144 had previously been published in the 1599 miscellany The Passionate Pilgrim). The quarto ends with "A Lover's Complaint", a narrative poem of 47 seven-line stanzas written in rhyme royal.
1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
3: Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thou Viewest
4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
5: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame
6: Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface
7: Lo! In The Orient When The Gracious Light
8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?
9: Is It For Fear To Wet A Widow's Eye
10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bear'st Love To Any
11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow
12: When I Do Count The Clock That Tells Time
13: O! That You Were Your Self, Buy, Love, You Are
14: Not From The Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck
15: When I Consider Everything That Grows
16: But Wherefore Do Not You A Mightier Way
17: Who Will Believe In My Verse In Time To Come
18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
19: Devouring Time, Blunt Thou The Lion's Paw
20: A Woman's Face With Nature's Own Hand Painted
21: So It Is Not With Me As With That Muse
22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
23: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage
24: Mine Eye Hath Play'd The Painter and Hath Steel'd
25: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars
26: Lord Of My Love, To Whom In Vassalage
27: Weary With Toil, I Haste To My Bed
28: How Can I Then Return I Happy Plight
29: When In Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes
30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
31: Thy Bosom Is Endeared With All Hearts
32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
33: Full Many A Glorious Morning I Have Seen
34: Why Didst Thou Promise Such A Beauteous Day
35: No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done
36: Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain
37: As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight
38: How Can My Muse Want Subject To Invent
39: O! How Thy WOrth With Manners May I Sing
40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All
41: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
42: That Thou Hast It Is Not All My Grief
43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
44: If The Dull Substance Of My Flesh Were Thought
45: That Thou Hast It Is Not All My Grief
46: Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War
47: Betwixt Mine Eye And Heart A League Is Took
48: How Careful Was I When I Took My Way
49: Against That Time, If Ever That Time Come
50: How Heavy Do I Journey On The Way
51: Thus Can My Love Excuse The Slow Offence
52: So Am I As The Rich, Whose Blessed Key
53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
54: O! How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
55: O! Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments
56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force; Be It Not Said
57: Being Your Slave What Should I Do But Tend
58: That God Forbid, That Made Me First Your Slave
59: If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is
60: Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore
61: Is It Thy Will, Thy Image Should Keep Open
62: Sin Of Self-love Possesseth All Mine Eye
63: Against My Love Shall Be As I Am Now
64: When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defac'd
65: Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
66: Tired For All These, For restful Death I Cry
67: Ah! Wherefore With Infection Should He Live
68: In Days Long Since, Before These Last So Bad
69: Those Parts Of Thee That The World's Eye Doth View
70: That Thou Art Blamed Shall Not Be Thy Defect
71: No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead
72: O! Lest The World Should Task You To Recite
73: That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
74: But Be Contented When That Fell Arrest
75: So Are You To My Thoughts As Food To Life
76: Why Is My Verse So Barren Of New Pride
77: Thy Glass Will Show Thee How Thy Beauties Wear
78: So Oft Have I Invoked Thee For My Muse
79: Whilst I Alone Did Call Upon Thy Aid
80: O! How I Faint When I Do Write Of You
81: Or I Shall Live Your Epitaph To Make
82: I Grant Thou Wert Not Married To My Muse
83: I Never Saw That You Did Painting Need
84: Who Is It That Says Most, Which Can Say More
85: My Tongue-Tied Muse In Manners Holds Her Still
86: Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
87: Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
88: When Thou Shalt Be Dispos'd To Set Me Light
89: Say That Thou Didst Forsake Me For Some Fault
90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now
91: Some Glory In Ttheir Birth, Some In Their Skill
92: But Do Thy Worst To Steal Thyself Away
93: So Shall I Live, Supposing Thou Art True
94: They That Have Power To Hurt, And Will Do None
95: How Sweet And Lovely Dost Thou Make The Shame
96: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness
97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
98: From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring
99: The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide
100: Where Art Thou, Muse, That Thou Forget'st So Long
101: O Truant Muse, What Shall Be Thy Amends
102: My Love Is Strengthen'd, Though More Weak In Seeming
103: Alack, What Poverty My Muse Brings Forth
104: To Me,Fair Friend, You Never Can Be Old
105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry
106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time
107: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor The Prophetic Soul
108: What's In The Brain That Ink May Character
109: O! Never Say That I Was False Of Heart
110: Alas! 'Tis True, I Have Gone Here And There
111: O For My Sake Do You With Fortune Chide
112: Your Love And Pity Doth Th' Impression Fill
113: Since I Left You, Mine Eye Is In My Mind
114: Or Whether Doth My Mind, Being Crowned With You
115: Those Lines That I Before Have Writ Do Lie
116: Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
117: Accuse Me Thus: That I Have Scanted All
118: Like As To Make Our Appetites More Keen
119: What Potions Have I Drunk Of Siren Tears
120: That You Were Once Unkind Befriends Me Now
121: 'Tis Better To Be Vile Than Vile Esteemed
122: Thy Gift, Thy Tables, Are Within My Brain
123: Thy Pyramids Built Up With Newer Might
124: If My Dear Love Were But The Child Of State
125: Were't Ought To Me I Bore The Canopy
126: O Thou, My Lovely Boy, Who In Thy Pow'r
Sonnet 127: In The Old Age Black Was Not Counted Fair
Sonnet 128: How Oft When Thou, My Music, Music Play'st
Sonnet 129: Th' Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame
Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
Sonnet 131: Thou Art As Tyrannous, So As Thou Art
Sonnet 132: Thine Eyes I Love, And They, As Pitying Me
Sonnet 133: Beshrew That Heart That Makes My Heart To Groan
Sonnet 134: So Now I Have Confessed That He Is Thine
Sonnet 135: Whoever Hath Her Wish, Thou Hast Thy Will
Sonnet 136: If Thy Soul Check Thee That I Come So Near
Sonnet 137: Thou Blind Fool, Love, What Dost Thou To Mine Eyes
Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears That She Is Made Of Truth
Sonnet 139: O! Call Not Me To Justify The Wrong
Sonnet 140: Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel
Sonnet 141: In Faith I Do Not Love You With Mine Eyes
Sonnet 142: Love Is My Sin, And Thy Dear Virtue Hate
Sonnet 143: Lo, As A Careful Housewife Runs To Catch
Sonnet 144: Two Loves I Have Of Comfort And Despair
Sonnet 145: Those Lips That Love's Own Hand Did Make
Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth
Sonnet 147: My Love Is As A Fever Longing Still
Sonnet 148: O Me! What Eyes Hath Love Put In My Head
Sonnet 149: Canst Thou, O Cruel! Say I Love Thee Not
Sonnet 150: O! From What Power Hast Thou This Powerful Might
Sonnet 151: Love Is Too Young To Know What Conscience Is
Sonnet 152:In Loving Thee Thou Kow'st I Am Forsworn
Sonnet 153:Cupid Laid by his Brand, and Fell Asleep
Sonnet 154:The Little Love-God Lying Once Asleep
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