THE SONNETS

The Sonnets with notes and explanations and obviously links to the corresponding podcasts are being added as they materialise. The Index below is a work in progress, don't worry: all the Sonnets will appear here by and by.

1 From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase
2 When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
3 Look in Thy Glass and Tell the Face Thou Viewest
4 Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
5 Those Hours That With Gentle Work Did Frame
6 Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface
7 Lo! In the Orient, When the Gracious Light
8 Music to Hear, Why Hearst Thou Music Sadly?
9 Is it for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye
10 For Shame Deny That Thou Bearst Love to Any
11 As Fast as Though Shalt Wane, so Fast Thou Growst
12 When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time
13 O That You Were Yourself, But Love, You Are
14 Not From the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck
15 When I Consider Everything That Grows
16 But Wherefore Do Not You a Mightier Way
17 Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come
18 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
19 Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws
20 A Woman's Face, With Nature's Own Hand Painted
21 So Is it Not With Me as With That Muse
22 My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
23 As an Unperfect Actor on the Stage
24 Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Stelled
25 Let Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars
26 Lord of My Love, to Whom in Vassalage
27 Weary With Toil, I Haste Me to My Bed
28 How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight
29 When in Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes
30 When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
31 Thy Bosom Is Endeared with All Hearts
32 If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
33 Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen
34 Why Didst Thou Promise Such a Beauteous Day
35 No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast Done
36 Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain
37 As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight
38 How Can My Muse Want Subject to Invent
39 O How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing
40 Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All
41 Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits
42 That Thou Hast Her, it Is Not All My Grief
43 When Most I Wink Then Do Mine Eyes Best See
44 If the Dull Substance of My Flesh Were Thought
45 The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging Fire
46 Mine Eye and Heart Are at a Mortal War
47 Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League Is Took
48 How Careful Was I When I Took My Way
49 Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come
50 How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way
51 Thus Can My Love Excuse the Dull Offence
52 So Am I as the Rich, Whose Blessed Key
53 What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
54 O How Much More Does Beauty Beauteous Seem
55 Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments
56 Sweet Love, Renew Thyself, Be it Not Said
57 Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend
58 That God Forbid That Made Me First Your Slave
59 If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is
60 Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore

A Woman's Face, With Nature's Own Hand Painted 20
Against That Time, if Ever That Time Come 49
As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight 37
As an Unperfect Actor on the Stage 23
As Fast as Thou Shalt Wane, so Fast Thou Growst 11
Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend 57
Betwixt Mine Eye and Heart a League Is Took 47
But Wherefore Do Not You a Mightier Way 16
Devouring Time, Blunt Thou the Lion's Paws 19
For Shame Deny That Thou Bearst Love to Any 10
From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase 1
Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen 33
How Can I Then Return in Happy Plight 28
How Can My Muse Want Subject to Invent 38
How Careful Was I When I Took My Way 48
How Heavy Do I Journey on the Way 50
If the Dull Substance of My Flesh Were Thought 44
If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is 59
If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day 32
Is it for Fear to Wet a Widow's Eye 9
Let Me Confess That We Two Must Be Twain 36
Let Those Who Are in Favour With Their Stars 25
Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore 60
Lo! In the Orient, When the Gracious Light 7
Look in Thy Glass and Tell the Face Thou Viewest 3
Lord of My Love, to Whom in Vassalage 26M
Mine Eye Hath Played the Painter and Hath Stelled 24
Mine Eye and Heart Are at a Mortal War 46
Music to Hear, Why Hearst Thou Music Sadly? 8
My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old 22
No More Be Grieved at That Which Thou Hast Done 35
Not From the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck 14
Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments of Princes 55
O How Much More Does Beauty Beauteous Seem 54
O How Thy Worth With Manners May I Sing 39
O That You Were Yourself, But Love, You Are 13
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 18
So Am I as the Rich, Whose Blessed Key 52
So Is it Not With Me as With That Muse 21
Sweet Love, Renew Thyself, Be it Not Said 56
Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All 40
That God Forbid That Made Me First Your Slave 58
That Thou Hast Her, it Is Not All My Grief 42
The Other Two, Slight Air and Purging Fire 45
Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface 6
Those Hours That With Gentle Work Did Frame 5
Those Pretty Wrongs That Liberty Commits 41
Thus Can My Love Excuse the Slow Offence 51
Thy Bosom Is Endeared With All Hearts 31
Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend 4
Weary With Toil, I Haste Me to My Bed 27
What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made 53
When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow 2
When I Consider Everything That Grows 15
When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time 12
When in Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eye 29
When Most I Wink Then Do Mine Eyes Best See 43
When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought 30
Who Will Believe My Verse in Time To Come 17
Why Didst Thou Promise Such a Beauteous Day 34