Favourite Shakespeare Sonnets

amuletts — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:49:21 +0000

This superb selection is based upon collective favourites of academics and public alike and each part starts with the most popular choices’.

NB below is a SMALL selection of 60-plus Sonnets

Which will be grouped in tracks of 3 at a time

No. 18: “Shall I Compare thee to a summer’s day?” 0.83

No. 29: “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” 0.95

No. 30: “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought” 1.03

No. 33: “Full many a glorious morning have I seen” 0.93

No. 2: “When forty winters shall besiege thy brow” 0.87

No. 12: “When I do count the clock that tells the time” 0.85

No. 73: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” 0.97

No. 87: “Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing” 0.97

No. 106: “When in the chronicle of wasted time” 0.83

No. 116: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” 0.88

No. 129: “The expense of spirit in a waste of shame” 0.92

No. 14:. “Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck” 0.85

No. 34: “Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day” 0.85

No. 71: “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” 0.93

No. 49: “Against that time, if ever that time come” 0.95

No. 130: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” 0.95

No. 55: “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments” 0.9

No. 66: “Tir’d with all these, fur restful death I cry” 0.93

No. 91: “Some glory in their birth, some in their skill” 0.83

No. 97: “How like a winter hath my absence been” 0.83

No. 19: “Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws” 0.92

No. 138: “When my love swears she is made of truth” 0.83

No. 144: “Two loves I have of comfort and despair” 1.03

& MANY MORE !

Sir John Gielgud – Alto CD