When Love Speaks - The Sonnets

1

Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises (The Tempest, Act III, Scene II)
William Shakespeare, Joseph Fiennes

92 bpm

A min

00:47

2

Live with me and be my love (from Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music)
William Shakespeare, Annie Lennox

118 bpm

C Maj

02:18

3

As an unperfect actor on the stage
William Shakespeare, Sir John Gielgud

69 bpm

G# Maj

00:54

4

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
William Shakespeare, Alan Rickman

104 bpm

A Maj

01:26

5

Why is my verse so barren of new pride
William Shakespeare, Diana Rigg

94 bpm

G min

00:55

6

Who will believe my verse in time to come
William Shakespeare, Richard Attenborough

116 bpm

G# Maj

01:04

7

That you were once unkind befriends me now
William Shakespeare, Paul Rhys

121 bpm

F Maj

01:03

8

How oft, when thou, my music
William Shakespeare, Juliet Stevenson

62 bpm

G Maj

00:57

9

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
William Shakespeare, Rufus Wainwright

161 bpm

D Maj

03:00

10

Being your slave, what should I do but tend
William Shakespeare, Janet McTeer

127 bpm

C# Maj

00:48

11

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
William Shakespeare, Alan Bates

112 bpm

G Maj

01:10

12

When I consider everything that grows
William Shakespeare, Marianne Jean Baptiste

66 bpm

C min

00:52

13

Let those who are in favour with their stars
William Shakespeare, David Warner

108 bpm

F Maj

00:52

14

They that have power to hurt and will do none
William Shakespeare, Siân Philips

81 bpm

F Maj

00:53

15

Those lips that Love's own hand did make
William Shakespeare, John Hurt

71 bpm

A# min

00:46

16

Come again, sweet love doth now invite
John Dowland, John Potter

103 bpm

G Maj

04:42

17

Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
William Shakespeare, Ralph Fiennes

81 bpm

C Maj

00:57

18

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me
William Shakespeare, Matthew Rhys

100 bpm

C# Maj

00:53

19

I never saw that you did painting need
William Shakespeare, Imelda Staunton

62 bpm

F Maj

00:58

20

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh

100 bpm

C# Maj

01:05

21

Is it thy will thy image should keep open
William Shakespeare, Fiona Shaw

52 bpm

D min

01:18

22

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war
William Shakespeare, Henry Goodman

126 bpm

C Maj

00:54

23

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
William Shakespeare, Keb' Mo'

90 bpm

F Maj

03:25

24

O never say that I was false of heart
William Shakespeare, Susannah York

119 bpm

A min

00:57

25

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
William Shakespeare, Timothy Spall

149 bpm

D# Maj

00:57

26

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
William Shakespeare, Peter Barkworth

132 bpm

A# Maj

01:08

27

How heavy do I journey on the way
William Shakespeare, Gemma Jones

88 bpm

C# Maj

00:56

28

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Pryce

140 bpm

G min

01:06

29

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
William Shakespeare, Richard Wilson

83 bpm

D min

00:53

30

The quality of mercy is not strained (Portia - The Merchant of Venice)
William Shakespeare, Des'ree

118 bpm

C# Maj

03:20

31

Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
William Shakespeare, Tom Courtenay

189 bpm

C Maj

01:05

32

SInce I left you, mine eye is in my mind
William Shakespeare, Zoe Waites

103 bpm

G min

01:02

33

Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
William Shakespeare, Edward Fox

170 bpm

G# Maj

01:13

34

Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
William Shakespeare, Trevor Eve

101 bpm

A# Maj

00:55

35

So is it not with me as with that Muse
William Shakespeare, Imogen Stubbs

101 bpm

C Maj

01:03

36

Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws
William Shakespeare, David Harewood

102 bpm

G# Maj

00:51

37

The Willow Song (Desdemona - Othello)
William Shakespeare, Barbara Bonney

77 bpm

G# min

03:14

38

When my love swears that she is made of truth
William Shakespeare, Richard Johnson

83 bpm

E min

01:03

39

When I do count the clock that tells the time
William Shakespeare, martin jarvis

116 bpm

F# Maj

00:50

40

What potions have I drunk of siren tears
William Shakespeare, Roger Hammond

106 bpm

F Maj

01:04

41

Not marble nor the gilded monuments
William Shakespeare, Richard Briers

86 bpm

A# Maj

00:45

42

Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
William Shakespeare, John Sessions

72 bpm

A# Maj

00:52

43

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
William Shakespeare, Thelma Holt

103 bpm

D# min

00:46

44

Music to hear, why hears't thou music sadly
William Shakespeare, Ladysmith Black Mambazo

89 bpm

D Maj

03:26

45

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
William Shakespeare, Caroline Blakiston

145 bpm

A# Maj

00:56

46

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
William Shakespeare, Peter Bowles

117 bpm

D min

00:46

47

In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
William Shakespeare, Sylvia Syms

91 bpm

F Maj

01:12

48

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day
William Shakespeare, Robert Lindsay

119 bpm

A# min

01:00

49

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck
William Shakespeare, Ioan Gruffudd

115 bpm

G min

00:48

50

My love is as a fever, longing still
William Shakespeare, John Hurt

128 bpm

F min

01:04