When Love Speaks - The Sonnets

1. 1
   Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises (The Tempest, Act III, Scene II)
   0:47
2. 2
   Live with me and be my love (from Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music)
   2:18
3. 3
   As an unperfect actor on the stage
   0:54
4. 4
   My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
   1:26
5. 5
   Why is my verse so barren of new pride
   0:55
6. 6
   Who will believe my verse in time to come
   1:04
7. 7
   That you were once unkind befriends me now
   1:03
8. 8
   How oft, when thou, my music
   0:57
9. 9
   When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
   3:00
10. 10
    Being your slave, what should I do but tend
    0:48
11. 11
    Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
    1:10
12. 12
    When I consider everything that grows
    0:52
13. 13
    Let those who are in favour with their stars
    0:52
14. 14
    They that have power to hurt and will do none
    0:53
15. 15
    Those lips that Love's own hand did make
    0:46
16. 16
    Come again, sweet love doth now invite
    4:42
17. 17
    Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
    0:57
18. 18
    Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
    0:53
19. 19
    I never saw that you did painting need
    0:58
20. 20
    When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
    1:05
21. 21
    Is it thy will thy image should keep open
    1:18
22. 22
    Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
    0:54
23. 23
    No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
    3:25
24. 24
    O never say that I was false of heart
    0:57
25. 25
    Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
    0:57
26. 26
    Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
    1:08
27. 27
    How heavy do I journey on the way
    0:56
28. 28
    Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
    1:06
29. 29
    Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
    0:53
30. 30
    The quality of mercy is not strained (Portia - The Merchant of Venice)
    3:20
31. 31
    Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
    1:05
32. 32
    SInce I left you, mine eye is in my mind
    1:02
33. 33
    Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
    1:13
34. 34
    Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
    0:55
35. 35
    So is it not with me as with that Muse
    1:03
36. 36
    Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
    0:51
37. 37
    The Willow Song (Desdemona - Othello)
    3:14
38. 38
    When my love swears that she is made of truth
    1:03
39. 39
    When I do count the clock that tells the time
    0:50
40. 40
    What potions have I drunk of siren tears
    1:04
41. 41
    Not marble nor the gilded monuments
    0:45
42. 42
    Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
    0:52
43. 43
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    0:46
44. 44
    Music to hear, why hears't thou music sadly
    3:26
45. 45
    When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
    0:56
46. 46
    No longer mourn for me when I am dead
    0:46
47. 47
    In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
    1:12
48. 48
    Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
    1:00
49. 49
    Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
    0:48
50. 50
    My love is as a fever, longing still
    1:04
51. 51
    The little Love-God lying once asleep
    0:54
52. 52
    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
    2:50
53. 53
    Our revels now are ended (The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I)
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