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Cover of CDH88021 - Shakespeare: The Sonnets, Vol. 1
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Recording details: November 1986
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Produced by Edward Perry
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: August 1988
Total duration: 71 minutes 45 seconds

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Sonnets, Vol. 1
Nos 1-77
Jack Edwards (reader)
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The Sonnets
1
No 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase  [0'54]
2
No 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow  [0'58]
3
No 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest  [0'58]
4
No 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend  [0'53]
5
No 5: Those hours that with gentle work did frame  [0'55]
6
No 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface  [0'54]
7
No 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light  [0'54]
8
No 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?  [0'55]
9
No 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye  [0'53]
10
No 10: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any  [0'58]
11
No 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st  [0'59]
12
No 12: When do I count the clock that tells the time  [0'58]
13
No 13: O that you were yourself, but, love, you are  [0'54]
14
No 14: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck  [0'54]
15
No 15: When I consider every thing that grows  [0'52]
16
No 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way  [0'51]
17
No 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come  [0'55]
18
No 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?  [0'59]
19
No 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws  [0'58]
20
No 20: A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted  [0'57]
21
No 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse  [0'57]
22
No 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old  [0'56]
23
No 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage  [0'52]
24
No 24: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd  [0'56]
25
No 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars  [0'55]
26
No 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage  [0'57]
27
No 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed  [0'57]
28
No 28: How can I then return in happy plight  [0'55]
29
No 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes  [0'57]
30
No 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought  [0'54]
31
No 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts  [0'54]
32
No 32: If thou survive my well-contented day  [0'54]
33
No 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen  [0'59]
34
No 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day  [0'54]
35
No 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done  [0'57]
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No 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain  [0'53]
37
No 37: As a decrepit father takes delight  [0'55]
38
No 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent  [0'55]
39
No 39: O how thy worth with manners may I sing  [0'56]
40
No 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all  [0'56]
41
No 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits  [0'54]
42
No 42: That thou has her, it is not all my grief  [1'01]
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No 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see  [1'00]
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No 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought  [0'55]
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No 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire  [0'56]
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No 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war  [0'58]
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No 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took  [0'57]
48
No 48: How careful was I, when I took my way  [0'54]
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No 49: Against that time, if ever that time come  [0'56]
50
No 50: How heavy do I journey on the way  [0'56]
51
No 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence  [0'55]
52
No 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key  [0'56]
53
No 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made  [0'56]
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No 54: O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem  [0'59]
55
No 55: Not marble nor the gilded monuments  [0'55]
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No 56: Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said  [0'54]
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No 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend  [0'53]
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No 58: That God forbid that made me first your slave  [0'54]
59
No 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is  [0'52]
60
No 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore  [0'57]
61
No 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open  [0'56]
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No 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye  [0'57]
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No 63: Against my love shall be as I am now  [0'56]
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No 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced  [0'57]
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No 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea  [0'57]
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No 66: Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry  [1'04]
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No 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live  [0'55]
68
No 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn  [0'56]
69
No 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view  [1'02]
70
No 70: That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect  [0'59]
71
No 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead  [0'57]
72
No 72: O lest the world should task you to recite  [0'53]
73
No 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold  [0'59]
74
No 74: But be contented: When that fell arrest  [0'55]
75
No 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life  [0'54]
76
No 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride  [0'57]
77
No 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear  [0'55]
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