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Sonnet No 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
10:00 AM.Read by Noelle McCarthy.Music details - Dowland: Untitled (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
10:00 AM.Read by Elizabeth Hawthorne Music details- Dowland: Fancy (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 28: How can I then return in happy plight
10:00 AM.Read by Geraldine Brophy (RNZ) Music details - Anthony Holborne: The Countess of Pembroke's Funeral (Virgin VC 7 91216) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 27: Weary with toil, I haste to my bed
10:00 AM.Read by Warwick Broadhead (RNZ) Music details - Hume: The Second part (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
10:00 AM.Read by Eva Radich (RNZ) Music details-J Johnson: Goodnight (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars
10:00 AM.Read by Tainui Tukiwaho (RNZ) Music details- J Johnson: Johnson's Jewel (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 24: Mine eye hath played the painter
10:00 AM.Read by Frank Whitten Music details-Dowland: Dr Case's Pavan (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
10:00 AM.Read by Ilona Rodgers. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse
10:00 AM.Read by Charles Pierard. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 20: A woman's face with nature's own hand
10:00 AM.This poem has been the subject of much debate as to the nature of the love the poet expresses for the "Fair Youth", the figure to whom the first 126 sonnets are dedicated. Read by Stuart Devenie. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 19: Devouring time blunt thou the lion's paws
10:00 AM.Read by Elric Hooper Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
10:00 AM.Read by Michael Hurst. Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
10:00 AM.That's the last of the "procreation sonnets", the seventeenth in the set, in which Shakespeare exhorted "the fair youth" to leave an heir. From here, the sonnets start to take a romantic hue - you'll… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way
10:00 AM.Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
10:00 AM.Read by Bryan Crump. Music details: Hume: An Answere (AliaVox AV 9837) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 13: O that you were yourself, but love you are
10:00 AM.Read by Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Gagliarda (Glossa GCD 920 109) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time
10:00 AM.Read by Hewitt Humphrey. Music details: J Johnson: La Vecchia Pavan (Naxos 8.550776) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 11: As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st
10:00 AM.Read by Tainui Tukiwaho. Music details: Dowland: The Battle Galliard (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 10: For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any
10:00 AM.Read by Sonia Yee. Music details: R Johnson: Pavan Harmonia (Mundi 907257) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 9: Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye?
10:00 AM.Read by Michael Hurst. Music details: Dowland: Pavan "Solus sine sola" (Naxos 8.570449) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
10:00 AM.Read by Warwick Broadhead. Music details: Dowland: Mrs Winter's Jump (Naxos 8.557586) Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 7: Lo in the orient when the gracious light
10:00 AM.Read by Prue Langbein. This is one of the so-called "procreation sonnets", the first seventeen in the set in which the poet urges "the fair youth" to give himself an heir. Music Details: Dowland… Read more Audio
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Sonnet No 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
10:00 AM.Read by John Callen (RNZ). Read more Audio