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William Shakespeare: The Popular Sonnets (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle & John Gielgud
28 SONGS • 1 HOUR AND 18 MINUTES • JAN 01 1956
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Sonnet No. 18 "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? " - Sonnet No. 29 "When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes " - Sonnet No. 106 "When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time" (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle
02:39
2
Sonnet No. 116 "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds " - Sonnet No. 2 "When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow " - Sonnet No. 30 "When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought" (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle
02:47
3
Sonnet No. 33 "Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen " - Sonnet No. 73 "That Time of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold " - Sonnet No. 34 "Why Didst Thou Promise Such a Beauteous Day" (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle
02:44
4
Sonnet No. 55 "Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments " - Sonnet No. 87 "Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear for my Possessing " - Sonnet No. 12 "When I do Count the Clock that Tells the Time" (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle
02:44
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Sonnet No. 14 "Not from the Stars do I My Judgment Pluck " - Sonnet No. 19 "Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion’s Paws " - Sonnet No. 49 "Against that Time, if Ever that Time Comes" (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle
02:44
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Sonnet No. 66 "Tir’d with all These, for Restful Death I Cry " - Sonnet No. 71 "No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead " - Sonnet No. 91 "Some Glory in their Birth, Some in their Skill " - Sonnet No. 97 "How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been" (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle
03:36
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Sonnet No. 1 "From Fairest Creatures we Desire Increase " - Sonnet No. 20 "A Woman‘s Face with Nature‘s own Hand Painted " - Sonnet No. 64 "When I have Seen by Time‘s fell Hand defac‘d" (2024 Remastered Edition)
John Gielgud
03:00
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Sonnet No. 65 "Since Brass, nor Stone, nor Earth, nor boundless sea " - Sonnet No. 98 "From you have I been Absent in the Spring " - Sonnet No. 104 "To Me, Fair Friend, you Never can be Old" (2024 Remastered Edition)
John Gielgud
02:55
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Sonnet No. 129 "The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame " - Sonnet No. 130 "My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun No.138 "When My Love Swears She is Made of Truth" (2024 Remastered Edition)
Anthony Quayle
02:43
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Sonnet No. 144 "Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair " - Sonnet No. 147 "My love is as a Fever Longing Still" (2024 Remastered Edition)
01:50
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Sonnet No. 3 "Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest " - Sonnet No. 17 "Who will believe my verse in time to come " - Sonnet No. 22 "My glass shall not persuade me I am old" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:54
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Sonnet No. 23 "As an unperfect actor on the stage " - Sonnet No. 24 "Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd " - Sonnet No. 27 "Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:56
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Sonnet No. 44 "If the dull substance of my flesh were thought " - Sonnet No. 75 "So are you to my thoughts as food to life " - Sonnet No. 80 "O, how I faint when I of you do write" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:50
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Sonnet No. 86 "Was it the proud full sail of his great verse " - Sonnet No. 107 "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul " - Sonnet No. 109 "O, never say that I was false of heart" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:41
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Sonnet No. 126 "O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power " - Sonnet No. 4 "Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend " - Sonnet No. 8 "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:52
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Sonnet No. 9 "Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye " - Sonnet No. 10 "For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any " - Sonnet No. 15 "When I consider every thing that grows" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:54
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Sonnet No. 16 "But wherefore do not you a mightier way " - Sonnet No. 25 "Let those who are in favour with their stars " - Sonnet No. 31 "Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:52
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Sonnet No. 32 "If thou survive my well-contented day " - Sonnet No. 36 "Let me confess that we two must be twain " - Sonnet No. 40 "Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:55
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Sonnet No. 42 "That thou hast her, it is not all my grief " - Sonnet No. 47 "Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took " - Sonnet No. 60 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:57
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Sonnet No. 92 "But do thy worst to steal thyself away " - Sonnet No. 5 "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame " - Sonnet No. 6 "Then let not winter's ragged hand deface" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:57
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Sonnet No. 7 "Lo! in the orient when the gracious light " - Sonnet No. 11 "As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest " - Sonnet No. 13 "O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:56
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Sonnet No. 26 "Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage " - Sonnet No. 35 "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done " - Sonnet No. 37 "As a decrepit father takes delight" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:53
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Sonnet No. 38 "How can my Muse want subject to invent " - Sonnet No. 41 "Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits " - Sonnet No. 46 "Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:47
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Sonnet No. 48 "How careful was I, when I took my way " - Sonnet No. 50 "How heavy do I journey on the way" - Sonnet No. 51 "Thus can my love excuse the slow offence" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:54
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Sonnet No. 52 "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key " - Sonnet No. 53 "What is your substance, whereof are you made " - Sonnet No. 54 "O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:47
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Sonnet No. 56 "Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said " - Sonnet No. 57 "Being your slave, what should I do but tend " - Sonnet No. 58 "That god forbid that made me first your slave" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:42
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Sonnet No. 61 "Is it thy will thy image should keep open " - Sonnet No. 62 "Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye " - Sonnet No. 90 "Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now" (2024 Remastered Edition)
02:41
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02:04
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