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From Shakespeare – with love

The Best of the Sonnets

Read by David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Stella Gonet, et al.

From Shakespeare – with love

From Shakespeare – with love

The Best of the Sonnets

Read by David Tennant, Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Stella Gonet, et al.

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first published in 1609, 400 years ago, by Mr Thomas Thorpe. Naxos AudioBooks marks the occasion with a selection of 80 of the finest, read by leading actors. The selection includes famous ones such as ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day’ as well as lesser well-known sonnets though of equally fine stature.

  • Release date: 30th Mar 2009
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Poetry
  • Catalogue number: NA195612
  • Length: 74 minutes

Contents and tracklist

William Shakespeare: The Sonnets*
Work length1:14:48
  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Track length1:02
Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
Track length0:59
Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Track length0:56
Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Track length1:04
Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
Track length0:56
Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any
Track length1:00
Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
Track length1:04
Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
Track length1:01
Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
Track length0:59
Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
Track length1:03
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 length1:07
Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse
Track length1:04
Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
Track length1:01
Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
Track length1:03
Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
Track length0:57
Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Track length1:06
Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
Track length1:02
Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
Track length1:03
Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
Track length0:55
Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
Track length0:54
Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
Track length1:02
Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Track length0:58
Sonnet 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done
Track length1:02
Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
Track length0:59
Sonnet 38: How can my muse want subject to invent
Track length0:59
Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
Track length1:01
Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
Track length0:57
Sonnet 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
Track length1:07
Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come
Track length1:03
Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
Track length1:01
Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
Track length0:58
Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Track length0:58
Sonnet 57: Being your slave what should I do but tend
Track length0:59
Sonnet 61: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
Track length0:57
Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now
Track length0:56
Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
Track length1:06
Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view
Track length1:04
Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Track length0:50
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Track length1:03
Sonnet 80: O! how I faint when I of you do write
Track length1:01
Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need
Track length0:57
Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
Track length0:57
Sonnet 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
Track length1:14
Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
Track length0:53
Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
Track length0:57
Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
Track length0:58
Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away
Track length0:54
Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true
Track length0:56
Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none
Track length1:02
Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been
Track length0:56
Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide
Track length1:01
Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
Track length1:03
Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
Track length0:54
Sonnet 109: O! never say that I was false of heart
Track length1:00
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Track length0:55
Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now
Track length1:02
Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd
Track length0:59
Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair
Track length1:03
Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play'st
Track length1:01
Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Track length1:06
Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
Track length1:03
Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
Track length0:58
Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine
Track length0:57
Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
Track length0:59
Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
Track length0:53
Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
Track length1:04
Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
Track length0:57
Sonnet 141: In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
Track length0:55
Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair
Track length0:54
Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever longing still
Track length0:54
Sonnet 148: O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head
Track length1:06
Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not
Track length0:58
Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
Track length1:02
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