Shakespeare Sonnets Vol. 2

Shakespeare's Sonnets Introduction

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

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,

Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open

Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Version 1)

Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now,

Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced

Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea

Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,

Sonnet 67: Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,

Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,

Sonnet 69:Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view

Sonnet 70:That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,

Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite

Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold

Sonnet 74: But be contented: when that fell arrest

Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Version 2)

Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride,

Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,

Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse

Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,

Sonnet 80: O, how I faint when I of you do write

Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make,

Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse

Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need

Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most? which can say more

Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,

Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,

Sonnet 87: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,

Sonnet 88: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Version 3)

Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,

Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;

Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,

Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away,

Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true,

Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none,

Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame

Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;

Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been

Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring,

Sonnet 99: The forward violet thus did I chide

Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long

Music Interlude ~ Greenleaves (Long Version)