Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase Poem by William Shakespeare | Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase | Literature/poems Sonnet 1 by William Shakespeare is one of the “Fair Youth” sonnets encouraging a young man to marry and have children (one of the so-called “procreation sonnets”). It follows the pattern of three quatrains and a couplet written in iambic pentameter, with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme. ******** Full text: From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. ******** William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, is probably best known for his plays, which include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and many others. But he also wrote a number of poems, including 154 sonnets. The exact dates of composition for each of the sonnets is unknown, but it is believed that Shakespeare wrote them throughout his career, sharing them privately. The sonnets cover such timeless themes such as love, beauty, and mortality. You can take all the sonnets with you with our FREE Android app: http://bit.ly/1ZS15rb Our Shakespeare Sonnet Playlist on Youtube: http://bit.ly/1PLwZOy Be sure to SUBSCRIBE so you won’t miss our newest videos! http://bit.ly/1ixuu9W ******** Performed by Jamie Muffett Copyright Socratica Studios 2012 |
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Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall beseige thy brow William Shakespeare's Sonnet 2, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed of small worth held. Then, being asked where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes, Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, If thou couldst answer, "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse," Proving his beauty by succession thine. This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest William Shakespeare's Sonnet 3, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time. But if thou live rememb'red not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend William Shakespeare's Sonnet 4, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give? Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live? For having traffic with thy self alone, Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive. Then how when nature calls thee to be gone, What acceptable audit canst thou leave? Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee, Which used, lives th'executor to be Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame William Shakespeare's Sonnet 5, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: Those hours that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel: For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there, Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness everywhere. Then were not summer's distillation left A liquid pris'ner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was. But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface William Shakespeare's Sonnet 6, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed. That use is not forbidden usury, Which happies those that pay the willing loan; That's for thy self to breed another thee, Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; Ten times thy self were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigured thee: Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart, Leaving thee living in posterity? Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light William Shakespeare's Sonnet 5, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his new-appearing sight, Serving with looks his sacred majesty; And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill, Resembling strong youth in his middle age, Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still, Attending on his golden pilgrimage; But when from highmost pitch, with weary car, Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day, The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are From his low tract and look another way: So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon, Unlooked on diest, unless thou get a son. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? William Shakespeare's Sonnet 8, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? If the true concord of well-tunèd sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordèring; Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.' Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye William Shakespeare's Sonnet 9, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye, That thou consumest thyself in single life? Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weep That thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keep By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind. Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it; But beauty's waste hath in the world an end, And kept unused, the user so destroys it. No love toward others in that bosom sits That on himself such murderous shame commits. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any, William Shakespeare's Sonnet 10, read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any, Who for thy self art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many, But that thou none lov'st is most evident: For thou art so possessed with murderous hate, That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire, Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate Which to repair should be thy chief desire. O! change thy thought, that I may change my mind: Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love? Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind, Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove: Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest Shakespeare's Sonnet 11, read by Jamie Muffett Full text: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest In one of thine, from that which thou departest; And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest. Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase: Without this, folly, age and cold decay: If all were minded so, the times should cease And threescore year would make the world away. Let those whom Nature hath not made for store, Harsh featureless and rude, barrenly perish: Look, whom she best endow'd she gave thee more; Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish: She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time Sonnet 12 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. Full text: When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake And die as fast as they see others grow; And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. Be sure to subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=Socratic... For the best educational videos, visit http://socratica.com |
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Sonnet 13: O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are Sonnet 13 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck Sonnet 14 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows Sonnet 15 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way Sonnet 16 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come Sonnet 17 by William Shakespeare Read by Jamie Muffett |
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Shakespeare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws Sonnet 19 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 20: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Sonnet 20 by William Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse Sonnet 21 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old Sonnet 22 by William Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage Sonnet 23 by Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd Sonnet 24 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars Sonnet 25 by Shakespeare. Read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage Sonnet 26 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed Sonnet 27 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight Sonnet 28 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts Sonnet 31 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day Sonnet 32 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen Sonnet 33 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day Sonnet 34 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done Sonnet 35 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain Sonnet 36 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight Sonnet 37 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent Sonnet 38 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing Sonnet 39 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. http://socratica.com/sonnets.html |
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Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all Sonnet 40 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 41: Those petty wrongs that liberty commits Sonnet 41 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief Sonnet 42 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see Sonnet 43 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought Sonnet 44 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire Sonnet 45 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war Sonnet 46 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 47: Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother Sonnet 47 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way Sonnet 48 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come Sonnet 49 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way Sonnet 50 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Sonnet 51 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Sonnet 52 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made Sonnet 53, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem Sonnet 54, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Sonnet 55 by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Sonnet 56, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Sonnet 57, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 58: That god forbid that made me first your slave Sonnet 58, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is Sonnet 59, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore Sonnet 60, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open Sonnet 61, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye Sonnet 62, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now Sonnet 63, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced Sonnet 64, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Sonnet 65, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry Sonnet 66, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 67: Ah! wherefore with infection should he live Sonnet 67, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn Sonnet 68, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view Sonnet 69, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect Sonnet 70, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead Sonnet 71, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite Sonnet 72, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold Sonnet 73, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 74: But be contented: when that fell arrest Sonnet 74, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life Sonnet 75, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride Sonnet 76, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear Sonnet 77, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse Sonnet 78, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid Sonnet 79, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write Sonnet 80, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make Sonnet 81, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse Sonnet 82, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need Sonnet 83, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most? which can say more Sonnet 84, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still Sonnet 85, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse Sonnet 86, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing Sonnet 87, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light Sonnet 88, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault Sonnet 89, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Sonnet 90, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill Sonnet 91, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away Sonnet 92, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true Sonnet 93, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none Sonnet 94, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Sonnet 95, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness Sonnet 96, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been Sonnet 97, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring Sonnet 98, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide Sonnet 99, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long Sonnet 100, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends Sonnet 101, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 102: My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming Sonnet 102, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth Sonnet 103, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old Sonnet 104, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 105: Let not my love be call'd idolatry Sonnet 105, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time Sonnet 106, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Sonnet 107, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 108: What's in the brain that ink may character Sonnet 108, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart Sonnet 109, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there Sonnet 110, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide Sonnet 111, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill Sonnet 112, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind Sonnet 113, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you Sonnet 114, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie Sonnet 115, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Shakespeare Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Sonnet 116, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all Sonnet 117, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetites more keen Sonnet 118, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears Sonnet 119, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now Sonnet 120, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd Sonnet 121, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain Sonnet 122, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change Sonnet 123, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state Sonnet 124, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 125: Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy Sonnet 125, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Sonnet 126, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair Sonnet 127, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st Sonnet 128, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Sonnet 129, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Sonnet 130, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art Sonnet 131, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me Sonnet 132, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan Sonnet 133, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine Sonnet 134, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,' Sonnet 135, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near Sonnet 136, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes Sonnet 137, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth Sonnet 138, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong Sonnet 139, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press Sonnet 140, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes Sonnet 141, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 142: Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate Sonnet 142, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 143: Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch Sonnet 143, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair Sonnet 144, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make Sonnet 145, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth Sonnet 146, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still Sonnet 147, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 148: O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head Sonnet 148, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not Sonnet 149, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might Sonnet 150, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is Sonnet 151, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn Sonnet 152, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep Sonnet 153, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |
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Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep Sonnet 154, by Shakespeare; read by Jamie Muffett. |