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The Procreation Sonnets
Special Guest: Professor Stephen Regan – The Sonnet as a Poetic Form
THE SONNETS
Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege 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 Hearst Thou Music Sadly?
Sonnet 9: Is it for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye
Sonnet 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bearst Love to Any
Sonnet 11: As Fast as Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Growst
Sonnet 12: When I Do Count the Clock that Tells the Time
Sonnet 13: O That You Were Yourself, But Love, You Are
Sonnet 14: Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement 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 20: A Woman's Face, With Nature's Own Hand Painted
Sonnet 21: So Is it Not With Me as With That Muse
Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
Sonnet 23: As an Unperfect Actor on the Stage
Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Stelled
Sonnet 25: Let Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars
Sonnet 26: Lord of My Love to Whom in Vassalage
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 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
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 39: O How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing
Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All
Sonnet 41: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
Sonnet 42: That Thou Hast Her, it Is Not All My Grief
Sonnet 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
Sonnet 44: If the Dull Substance of My Flesh Were Thought
Sonnet 45: The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging Fire
Sonnet 46: Mine Eye and Heart Are at a Mortal War
Sonnet 47: Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League Is Took
Sonnet 48: How Careful Was I When I Took My Way
Sonnet 49: Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come
Sonnet 50: How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way
Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse the Slow Offence
Sonnet 52: So Am I as the Rich, Whose Blessed Key
Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
Sonnet 54: O How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments of Princes
Sonnet 56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be it Not Said
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
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William Shakespeare's Sonnets recited, revealed, relived
Home
About
OVERVIEW
Introduction
The Procreation Sonnets
Special Guest: Professor Stephen Regan – The Sonnet as a Poetic Form
THE SONNETS
Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege 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 Hearst Thou Music Sadly?
Sonnet 9: Is it for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye
Sonnet 10: For Shame Deny That Thou Bearst Love to Any
Sonnet 11: As Fast as Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Growst
Sonnet 12: When I Do Count the Clock that Tells the Time
Sonnet 13: O That You Were Yourself, But Love, You Are
Sonnet 14: Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement 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 20: A Woman's Face, With Nature's Own Hand Painted
Sonnet 21: So Is it Not With Me as With That Muse
Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
Sonnet 23: As an Unperfect Actor on the Stage
Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Stelled
Sonnet 25: Let Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars
Sonnet 26: Lord of My Love to Whom in Vassalage
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 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
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 39: O How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing
Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All
Sonnet 41: Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
Sonnet 42: That Thou Hast Her, it Is Not All My Grief
Sonnet 43: When Most I Wink, Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
Sonnet 44: If the Dull Substance of My Flesh Were Thought
Sonnet 45: The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging Fire
Sonnet 46: Mine Eye and Heart Are at a Mortal War
Sonnet 47: Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League Is Took
Sonnet 48: How Careful Was I When I Took My Way
Sonnet 49: Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come
Sonnet 50: How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way
Sonnet 51: Thus Can My Love Excuse the Slow Offence
Sonnet 52: So Am I as the Rich, Whose Blessed Key
Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
Sonnet 54: O How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem
Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments of Princes
Sonnet 56: Sweet Love, Renew Thy Force, Be it Not Said
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
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