Shakespeare Sonnets Vol. 1

Shakespeare's Sonnets Introduction

Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase

Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall beseige thy brow

Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest

Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend

Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface

Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light

Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?

Sonnet 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye

Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any

Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest

Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Version 1)

Sonnet 13: O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are

Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck

Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows

Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way

Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws

Sonnet 20: A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted

Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse

Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old

Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage

Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd

Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Version 2)

Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage

Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed

Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight

Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts

Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day

Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen

Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day

Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done

Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain

Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight

Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Version 3)

Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing

Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all

Sonnet 41: Those petty wrongs that liberty commits

Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief

Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see

Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought

Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire

Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war

Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took

Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way

Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come

Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Long Version)