Sonnets - to Read and Listen to
- All 154 sonnets read by Larry Gleason
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- * indicates sonnets often discussed in the classroom
- *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
- Sonnet 13 O! that you were your self; 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 21 So is it not with me as with that Muse
- Sonnet 22 My glass shall not persuade me I am old
- Sonnet 24 Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
- Sonnet 25 Let those who are in favour with their stars
- 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 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
- Sonnet 40 Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
- Sonnet 44 If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
- Sonnet 53 What is your substance, whereof are you made
- Sonnet 55 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
- Sonnet 57 Being your slave, what should I do but tend
- Sonnet 58 That god forbid that made me first your slave
- Sonnet 59 If there be nothing new, but that which is
- Sonnet 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
- Sonnet 61 Is it thy will thy image should keep open
- Sonnet 62 Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
- Sonnet 65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
- Sonnet 66 Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
- Sonnet 71 No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- Sonnet 73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold
- Sonnet 75 So are you to my thoughts as food to life
- Sonnet 90 Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
- Sonnet 91 Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
- Sonnet 92 But do thy worst to steal thyself away
- Sonnet 93 So shall I live, supposing thou art true
- Sonnet 94 They that have power to hurt, and will do none
- Sonnet 95 How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
- Sonnet 97 How like a winter hath my absence been
- Sonnet 98 From you have I been absent in the spring
- Sonnet 100 Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
- Sonnet 104 To me, fair friend, you never can be old
- Sonnet 105 Let not my love be called idolatry
- Sonnet 106 When in the chronicle of wasted time
- Sonnet 107 Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
- Sonnet 109 O, never say that I was false of heart
- Sonnet 110 Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
- Sonnet 111 O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
- Sonnet 113 Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
- *Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Sonnet 117 Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
- Sonnet 126 O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
- Sonnet 128 How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st
- Sonnet 129 The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- *Sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
- Sonnet 138 When my love swears that she is made of truth
- Sonnet 141 In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
- Sonnet 144 Two loves I have of comfort and despair
- Sonnet 146 Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
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