The Sonnets, 1 to 77

Tracklist

• 1
  Sonnet nº 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
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• 2
  Sonnet nº 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
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• 3
  Sonnet nº 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
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• 4
  Sonnet nº 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
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• 5
  Sonnet nº 5: Those hours that with gentle work did frame
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• 6
  Sonnet nº 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
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• 7
  Sonnet nº 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light
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• 8
  Sonnet nº 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
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• 9
  Sonnet nº 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
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• 10
  Sonnet nº 10: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any
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• 11
  Sonnet nº 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
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• 12
  Sonnet nº 12: When do I count the clock that tells the time
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• 13
  Sonnet nº 13: O that you were yourself, but, love, you are
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• 14
  Sonnet nº 14: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck
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• 15
  Sonnet nº 15: When I consider every thing that grows
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• 16
  Sonnet nº 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
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• 17
  Sonnet nº 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
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• 18
  Sonnet nº 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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• 19
  Sonnet nº 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
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• 20
  Sonnet nº 20: A woman's face, with Nature's own hand painted
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• 21
  Sonnet nº 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse
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• 22
  Sonnet nº 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
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• 23
  Sonnet nº 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage
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• 24
  Sonnet nº 24: Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd
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• 25
  Sonnet nº 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
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• 26
  Sonnet nº 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
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• 27
  Sonnet nº 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
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• 28
  Sonnet nº 28: How can I then return in happy plight
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• 29
  Sonnet nº 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
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• 30
  Sonnet nº 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
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• 31
  Sonnet nº 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
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• 32
  Sonnet nº 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
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• 33
  Sonnet nº 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
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• 34
  Sonnet nº 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
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• 35
  Sonnet nº 35: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done
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• 36
  Sonnet nº 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
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• 37
  Sonnet nº 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
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• 38
  Sonnet nº 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent
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• 39
  Sonnet nº 39: O how thy worth with manners may I sing
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• 40
  Sonnet nº 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all
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• 41
  Sonnet nº 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
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• 42
  Sonnet nº 42: That thou has her, it is not all my grief
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• 43
  Sonnet nº 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
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• 44
  Sonnet nº 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
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• 45
  Sonnet nº 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire
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• 46
  Sonnet nº 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
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• 47
  Sonnet nº 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
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• 48
  Sonnet nº 48: How careful was I, when I took my way
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• 49
  Sonnet nº 49: Against that time, if ever that time come
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• 50
  Sonnet nº 50: How heavy do I journey on the way
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• 51
  Sonnet nº 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
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• 52
  Sonnet nº 52: So am I as the rich whose blessed key
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• 53
  Sonnet nº 53: What is your substance, whereof are you made
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• 54
  Sonnet nº 54: O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
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• 55
  Sonnet nº 55: Not marble nor the gilded monuments
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• 56
  Sonnet nº 56: Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
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• 57
  Sonnet nº 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend
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• 58
  Sonnet nº 58: That God forbid that made me first your slave
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• 59
  Sonnet nº 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is
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• 60
  Sonnet nº 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
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• 61
  Sonnet nº 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open
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• 62
  Sonnet nº 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
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• 63
  Sonnet nº 63: Against my love shall be as I am now
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• 64
  Sonnet nº 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
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• 65
  Sonnet nº 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
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• 66
  Sonnet nº 66: Tir'd with all these, for restful death I cry
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• 67
  Sonnet nº 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live
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• 68
  Sonnet nº 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
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• 69
  Sonnet nº 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
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• 70
  Sonnet nº 70: That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect
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• 71
  Sonnet nº 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
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• 72
  Sonnet nº 72: O lest the world should task you to recite
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• 73
  Sonnet nº 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
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• 74
  Sonnet nº 74: But be contented: When that fell arrest
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• 75
  Sonnet nº 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life
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• 76
  Sonnet nº 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
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• 77
  Sonnet nº 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
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Release credits

• Jack Edwards
  spoken vocals

Issues

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  The Sonnets, 1 to 77

  CD
  August 1988