Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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The 154 sonnets that Shakespeare penned are some of the most famous in the world. But have you ever heard them all? This podcast series will take you through them one by one in easy 15 minute installments. The show’s two hosts, and maybe one or two special guests, will read through the sonnet and talk about what it means to them and what they feel about it.

Episode Date
Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep
Apr 22, 2014
Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep
Apr 15, 2014
Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn
Apr 10, 2014
Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is
Apr 08, 2014
Sonnet 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
Apr 03, 2014
Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not
Apr 01, 2014
Sonnet 148: O me! What eyes hath love put in my head
Mar 27, 2014
Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still
Mar 25, 2014
Sonnet 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth
Mar 20, 2014
Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make
Mar 18, 2014
Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
Mar 13, 2014
Sonnet 143: Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch
Mar 11, 2014
Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate
Mar 06, 2014
Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes
Mar 04, 2014
Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel: Do not press
Feb 27, 2014
Sonnet 139: O call not me to justify the wrong
Feb 25, 2014
Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
Feb 20, 2014
Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
Feb 18, 2014
Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
Feb 13, 2014
Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will
Feb 11, 2014
Sonnet 134: So now I have confessed that he is thine
Feb 06, 2014
Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
Feb 04, 2014
Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
Jan 30, 2014
Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art
Jan 28, 2014
Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun
Jan 23, 2014
Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Jan 21, 2014
Sonnet 128: How oft when thou, my music, music play’st
Jan 16, 2014
Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair
Jan 14, 2014
Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Jan 09, 2014
Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy
Jan 07, 2014
Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state
Jan 02, 2014
Sonnet 123: No! Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change
Dec 31, 2013
Sonnet 122: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Dec 26, 2013
Sonnet 121: ‘Tis better to be vile than vile esteem’d
Dec 24, 2013
Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now
Dec 19, 2013
Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
Dec 17, 2013
Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetites more keen
Dec 12, 2013
Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
Dec 10, 2013
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Dec 05, 2013
Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie
Dec 03, 2013
Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you
Nov 28, 2013
Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
Nov 26, 2013
Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Nov 21, 2013
Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide
Nov 19, 2013
Sonnet 110: Alas! ’tis true, I have gone here and there
Nov 14, 2013
Sonnet 109: O! never say that I was false of heart
Nov 12, 2013
Sonnet 108: What’s in the brain that ink may character
Nov 07, 2013
Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Nov 05, 2013
Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
Oct 31, 2013
Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry
Oct 29, 2013
Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old
Oct 24, 2013
Sonnet 103: Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth
Oct 22, 2013
Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming
Oct 18, 2013
Sonnet 101: O truant Muse what shall be thy amends
Oct 15, 2013
Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long
Oct 10, 2013
Sonnet 099: The forward violet thus did I chide
Oct 08, 2013
Sonnet 098: From you have I been absent in the spring
Oct 03, 2013
Sonnet 097: How like a winter hath my absence been
Oct 01, 2013
Sonnet 096: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
Sep 26, 2013
Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Sep 24, 2013
Sonnet 094: They that have power to hurt and will do none
Sep 19, 2013
Sonnet 093: So shall I live, supposing thou art true
Sep 17, 2013
Sonnet 092: But do thy worst to steal thyself away
Sep 12, 2013
Sonnet 091: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
Sep 10, 2013
Sonnet 090: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
Sep 05, 2013
Sonnet 089: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault
Sep 03, 2013
Sonnet 088: When thou shalt be disposed to set me light
Aug 29, 2013
Sonnet 087: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing
Aug 27, 2013
Sonnet 086: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse
Aug 22, 2013
Sonnet 085: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still
Aug 20, 2013
Sonnet 084: Who is it that says most, which can say more
Aug 15, 2013
Sonnet 083: I never saw that you did painting need
Aug 13, 2013
Sonnet 082: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse
Aug 08, 2013
Sonnet 081: Or I shall live your epitaph to make
Aug 06, 2013
Sonnet 080: O! how I faint when I of you do write
Aug 01, 2013
Sonnet 079: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid
Jul 30, 2013
Sonnet 078: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
Jul 25, 2013
Sonnet 077: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
Jul 23, 2013
Sonnet 076: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
Jul 18, 2013
Sonnet 075: So are you to my thoughts as food to life
Jul 16, 2013
Sonnet 074: But be contented when that fell arrest
Jul 11, 2013
Sonnet 073: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Jul 09, 2013
Sonnet 072: O! lest the world should task you to recite
Jul 04, 2013
Sonnet 071: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Jul 02, 2013
Sonnet 070: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect
Jun 27, 2013
Sonnet 069: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view
Jun 25, 2013
Sonnet 068: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
Jun 20, 2013
Sonnet 067: Ah! wherefore with infection should he live
Jun 18, 2013
Sonnet 066: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
Jun 13, 2013
Sonnet 065: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
Jun 11, 2013
Sonnet 064: When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced
Jun 06, 2013
Sonnet 063: Against my love shall be, as I am now
Jun 04, 2013
Sonnet 062: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
May 30, 2013
Sonnet 061: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
May 28, 2013
Sonnet 060: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
May 23, 2013
Sonnet 059: If there be nothing new, but that which is
May 21, 2013
Sonnet 058: That god forbid, that made me first your slave
May 16, 2013
Sonnet 057: Being your slave what should I do but tend
May 14, 2013
Sonnet 056: Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
May 09, 2013
Sonnet 055: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
May 07, 2013
Sonnet 054: O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
May 02, 2013
Sonnet 053: What is your substance, whereof are you made
Apr 30, 2013
Sonnet 052: So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Apr 25, 2013
Sonnet 051: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Apr 23, 2013
Sonnet 050: How heavy do I journey on the way
Apr 18, 2013
Sonnet 049: Against that time, if ever that time come
Apr 16, 2013
Sonnet 048: How careful was I when I took my way
Apr 11, 2013
Sonnet 047: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
Apr 09, 2013
Sonnet 046: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
Apr 04, 2013
Sonnet 045: The other two, slight air, and purging fire
Apr 02, 2013
Sonnet 044: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought
Mar 28, 2013
Sonnet 043: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
Mar 26, 2013
Sonnet 042: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
Mar 21, 2013
Sonnet 041: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
Mar 19, 2013
Sonnet 040: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
Mar 14, 2013
Sonnet 039: O! how thy worth with manners may I sing
Mar 12, 2013
Sonnet 038: How can my muse want subject to invent
Mar 07, 2013
Sonnet 037: As a decrepit father takes delight
Mar 05, 2013
Sonnet 036: Let me confess that we two must be twain
Feb 28, 2013
Sonnet 035: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
Feb 26, 2013
Sonnet 034: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
Feb 21, 2013
Sonnet 033: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Feb 19, 2013
Sonnet 032: If thou survive my well-contented day
Feb 14, 2013
Sonnet 031: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
Feb 12, 2013
Sonnet 030: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
Feb 07, 2013
Sonnet 029: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
Feb 05, 2013
Sonnet 028: How can I then return in happy plight
Jan 31, 2013
Sonnet 027: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
Jan 29, 2013
Sonnet 026: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Jan 24, 2013
Sonnet 025: Let those who are in favour with their stars
Jan 22, 2013
Sonnet 024: Mine eye hath play’d the painter and hath steel’d
Jan 17, 2013
Sonnet 023: As an unperfect actor on the stage
Jan 15, 2013
Sonnet 022: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
Jan 10, 2013
Sonnet 021: So is it not with me as with that Muse
Jan 08, 2013
Sonnet 020: A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted
Jan 03, 2013
Sonnet 019: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws
Jan 01, 2013
Sonnet 018: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Dec 27, 2012
Sonnet 017: Who will believe my verse in time to come
Dec 25, 2012
Sonnet 016: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Dec 20, 2012
Sonnet 015: When I consider every thing that grows
Dec 18, 2012
Sonnet 014: Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck
Dec 13, 2012
Sonnet 013: O! that you were your self; but, love, you are
Dec 11, 2012
Sonnet 012: When I do count the clock that tells the time
Dec 06, 2012
Sonnet 011: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest
Dec 04, 2012
Sonnet 010: For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any
Nov 29, 2012
Sonnet 009: Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye
Nov 27, 2012
Sonnet 008: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?
Nov 22, 2012
Sonnet 007: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Nov 20, 2012
Sonnet 006: Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface
Nov 15, 2012
Sonnet 005: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
Nov 13, 2012
Sonnet 004: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Nov 08, 2012
Sonnet 003: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Nov 06, 2012
Sonnet 002: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Nov 01, 2012
Sonnet 001: From fairest creatures we desire increase
Oct 30, 2012
Sonnet 000: Introduction
Oct 21, 2012