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Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of may' or 'remembrance of things past' 'the marriage of minds'. For centuries these wonderfully-crafted, intense lyrics have stood for something valued about youth, love and the emotional complexities belonging to that time of life. This new recording presents all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets, using the New Cambridge Shakespeare texts.Included in The Sonnets:Sonnet 1 From fairest creatures we desire increaseSonnet 2 When forty winters shall besiege thy browSonnet 3 Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewestSonnet 4 Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendSonnet 5 Those hours that with gentle work did frameSonnet 6 Then let not winter'sragged hand defaceSonnet 7 Lo in the orient when the gracious lightSonnet 8 Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?Sonnet 9 Is it for fear to wet a widow's eyeSonnet 10 For shame deny that thou bear'st love to anySonnet 11 As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'stSonnet 12 When I do count the clock that tells the timeSonnet 13 O that you were your self! but, love, you areSonnet 14 Not from the stars do I my judgement pluckSonnet 15 When I consider every thing that growsSonnet 16 But wherefore do not you a mightier waySonnet 17 Who will believe my verse in time to comeSonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Sonnet 19 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion'spawsSonnet 20 A woman's face with Nature's own hand paintedSonnet 21 So is it not with me as with that MuseSonnet 22 My glass shall not persuade me I am oldSonnet 23 As an unperfect actor on the stageSonnet 24 Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelledSonnet 25 Let those who are in favour with their starsSonnet 26 Lord of my love, to whom in vassalageSonnet 27 Weary with toil, I haste me to my bedSonnet 28 How can I then return in happy plightSonnet 29 When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyesSonnet 30 When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtSonnet 31 Thy bosom is endearèd with all heartsSonnet 32 If thou survive my well-contented daySonnet 33 Full many a glorious morning have I seenSonnet 34 Why didst thou promise such a beauteous daySonnet 35 No more be grieved at that which thou hast doneSonnet 36 Let me confess that we two must be twainSonnet 37 As a decrepit father takes delightSonnet 38 How can my Muse want subject to inventSonnet 39 O how thy worth with manners may I singSonnet 40 Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them allSonnet 41 Those pretty wrongs that liberty commitsSonnet 42 That thou hast her, it is not all my griefSonnet 43 When most I wink, then do mine eyes best seeSonnet 44 If the dull substance of my flesh were thoughtSonnet 45 The other two, slight air and purging fireSonnet 46 Mine eye and heart are at a mortal warSonnet 47 Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is tookSonnet 48 How careful was I, when I took my waySonnet 49 Against that time (if ever that time come)Sonnet 50 How heavy do I journey on the waySonnet 51 Thus can my love excuse the slow offenceSonnet 52 So am I as the rich whose blessèd keySonnet 53 What is your substance, whereof are you madeSonnet 54 O how much more doth beauty beauteous seemSonnet 55 Not marble nor the gilded monumentsSonnet 56 Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not saidSonnet 57 Being your slave, what should I do but tendSonnet 58 That god forbid, that made me first your slaveSonnet 59 If there be nothing new, but that which isSonnet 60 Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shoreSonnet 61 Is it thy will thy image should keep openSonnet 62 Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eyeSonnet 63 Against my love shall be as I am nowSonnet 64 When I have seen by Time's fell hand defacedSonnet 65 Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless seaSonnet 66 Tired with all these, for restful death I crySonnet 67 Ah whereforewith infection should he liveSonnet 68 Thus is his cheek the map of days outwornSonnet 69 Those parts of thee that the world's