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When Love Speaks is a compilation album
Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter....
 that features interpretations of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's sonnets
Sonnet

The sonnet is one of the Poetry that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe.The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian language word sonetto, both meaning "little song"....
 and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics
EMI Classics

EMI Classics is a record label of EMI, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed european classical music releases....
 in April 2002.








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When Love Speaks is a compilation album
Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter....
 that features interpretations of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's sonnets
Sonnet

The sonnet is one of the Poetry that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe.The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian language word sonetto, both meaning "little song"....
 and excerpts from his plays by famous actors and musicians, released under EMI Classics
EMI Classics

EMI Classics is a record label of EMI, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed european classical music releases....
 in April 2002.

Track listing

  1. "Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises" (The Tempest
    The Tempest

    The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610?11, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. Its protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who uses his magical powers to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore....
    ), performed by Joseph Fiennes
    Joseph Fiennes

    Joseph Alberic Fiennes is a Screen Actors Guild Award award-winning English film and Theatre actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in Elizabeth , and Martin Luther in Luther ....
  2. "Live With Me and Be My Love" (from The Merry Wives of Windsor
    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597....
    ), performed by Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox

    Annie Lennox is a British musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999....
  3. "As an unperfect actor on the stage" ("Sonnet 23
    Sonnet 23

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 23 is one of the sequence addressed to a well-born young man. It is of special interest because of its use of a metaphor drawn from acting, a figure that has led to much attention for what the poem might reveal about Shakespeare's attitude towards his profession....
    "), performed by John Gielgud
    John Gielgud

    Sir Arthur John Gielgud, Order of Merit , Companion of Honour was an England actor and singer, particularly known for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Alec Guinness likened to "a silver trumpet muffled in silk"....
  4. "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" ("Sonnet 130
    Sonnet 130

    William Shakespeare Sonnet CXXX mocks the conventions of the garish and flowery courtly sonnets in its realistic portrayal of Shakespeare's sonnets#The Dark Lady....
    "), performed by Alan Rickman
    Alan Rickman

    Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman is an Emmy-, Golden Globe-, BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning England film, television and Theatre actor....
  5. "Why is my verse so barren of new pride" ("Sonnet 76
    Sonnet 76

    Sonnet 76 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Diana Rigg
    Diana Rigg

    Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg Order of the British Empire is an England actor. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Tracy Bond in the 1969 in film James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ....
  6. "Who will believe my verse in time to come" ("Sonnet 17
    Sonnet 17

    William Shakespeare Sonnet XVII, the last of his procreation sonnets, questions his own descriptions of the Shakespeare's sonnets#Fair Youth, believing that in future ages will believe them to be exaggerations if he does not make a copy of himself ....
    "), performed by Richard Attenborough
    Richard Attenborough

    Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, Order of the British Empire, is an English people actor, film director, film producer, and entrepreneur....
  7. "That you were once unkind befriends me now" ("Sonnet 120
    Sonnet 120

    Sonnet 120 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Paul Rhys
    Paul Rhys

    Paul Rhys is a British television, film and theatre actor known for his intense and often volatile work .Rhys was born in Neath and studied at RADA....
  8. "How oft, when thou, my music" ("Sonnet 128
    Sonnet 128

    SynopsisSonnet 128 is the 128th of Shakespeare's sonnets, and the second of two musical sonnets. Its number suggests, like Sonnet 8, the octave of the Musical scale as well as the 12 notes on the Musical keyboard inside each octave....
    "), performed by Juliet Stevenson
    Juliet Stevenson

    Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson Order of the British Empire is an England actress of theatre and film....
  9. "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" ("Sonnet 29
    Sonnet 29

    Sonnet 29 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Rufus Wainwright
    Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
  10. "Being your slave, what should I do but tend" ("Sonnet 57
    Sonnet 57

    Sonnet 57 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Janet McTeer
    Janet McTeer

    Janet McTeer, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning United Kingdom actress.Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, McTeer attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating....
  11. "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry" ("Sonnet 66
    Sonnet 66

    Sonnet 66 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Alan Bates
    Alan Bates

    Sir Alan Arthur Bates Order of British Empire was a United Kingdom actor of stage, screen and television....
  12. "When I consider everything that grows" ("Sonnet 15
    Sonnet 15

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, a procreation sonnets, is a reflection on the destruction of Time and Decay, and its effect on the Shakespeare's sonnets#Fair Youth to whom the sonnet is addressed....
    "), performed by Marianne Jean-Baptiste
    Marianne Jean-Baptiste

    Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated English people actress.She became a star overnight following the international success of the social drama Secrets & Lies in 1996 receiving an Academy Award nomination....
  13. "Let those who are in favour with their stars" ("Sonnet 25
    Sonnet 25

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 25 is among the first of the sequence to deal explicitly with the difference in class between Shakespeare and the subject of the poems....
    "), performed by David Warner
    David Warner (actor)

    David Warner is an Emmy Award-winning List of English people actor, who is known for playing sinister or villainous characters.Biography...
  14. "They that have power to hurt and will do none" ("Sonnet 94
    Sonnet 94

    Sonnet 94 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Siān Phillips
    Siān Phillips

    Si?n Phillips, Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people actress....
  15. "Those lips that Love's own hand did make" ("Sonnet 145
    Sonnet 145

    SynopsisThe poet's lover seems to be about say she hates him despite his devotion to her. But as soon as she saw how sad he was, she repented, and changed the phrase "I hate" into "I hate not you"...
    "), performed by John Hurt
    John Hurt

    'John Vincent Hurt', Order of the British Empire is an England actor. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons , and has since retained a career as a leading actor and supporting actor of many popular motion pictures, including: Watership Down , Midnight Exp...
  16. "Come again sweet love" performed by John Potter
    John Potter (musician)

    John Potter is an England tenor and academic....
     (John Dowland
    John Dowland

    John Dowland was an England composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholia songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come Again ", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has been a source of repertoire for classical guitarists...
    )
  17. "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" ("Sonnet 129
    Sonnet 129

    AnalysisShakespeare's 129th sonnet describes the mental conflict one often undergoes after having acted out desire. This may be guilt and shame felt by the young man, a reccurring character in Shakespeare's sonnets, for lusting after the dark lady ....
    "), performed by Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Fiennes

    Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an England actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show , The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon , The Constant Gardener , Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the Harry Potter , and In Bruges....
  18. "Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me" ("Sonnet 132
    Sonnet 132

    Sonnet 132 is written by William Shakespeare....
    "), performed by Matthew Rhys
    Matthew Rhys

    Matthew Rhys Evans and known professionally as Matthew Rhys, is a Wales actor, best-known as Kevin Walker , the gay lawyer brother on the United States American Broadcasting Company family drama Brothers & Sisters ....
  19. "I never saw that you did painting need" ("Sonnet 83
    Sonnet 83

    Sonnet 83 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Imelda Staunton
    Imelda Staunton

    Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton, Order of the British Empire, is an Academy Award-nominated England actor best known for her performances in the United Kingdom comedy television series Up the Garden Path and the films Harry Potter and Vera Drake....
  20. "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought" ("Sonnet 30
    Sonnet 30

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 30, one of his most famous, is a reflection on sad memories reconciled by the realization of the gift he has in his Shakespeare's sonnets#Fair Youth....
    "), performed by Kenneth Branagh
    Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Charles Branagh is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director from Northern Ireland....
  21. "It is thy will thy image should keep open", performed by Fiona Shaw
    Fiona Shaw

    Fiona Shaw, Order of the British Empire is a leading Ireland actor and theatre director. Although to international audiences she is probably most familiar for her minor role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films, she is regarded as one of the finest classical actresses of her generation....
  22. "Mine eye and heart are at mortal war", performed by Henry Goodman
    Henry Goodman

    Henry Goodman is a British theatre actor. He trained at RADA in London alongside Jonathan Pryce.In 1988, he played George Green's Brother-in-law Cyril in London's Burning....
  23. "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done" ("Sonnet 35
    Sonnet 35

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 is part of the sonnet sequence commonly agreed to be addressed to a young man; more narrowly, it is part of a sequence running from Sonnet 33 to Sonnet 42, in which the speaker considers a sin committed against him by the young man, which the speaker struggles to forgive....
    "), performed by Keb' Mo'
    Keb' Mo'

    Keb' Mo is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter....
  24. "O never say that I was false of heart" ("Sonnet 109
    Sonnet 109

    Sonnet 109 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Susannah York
    Susannah York

    Susannah York is an Academy Award-nominated England film and television actor....
  25. "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest" ("Sonnet 3
    Sonnet 3

    Sonnet 3 by William Shakespeare is one of the 17 procreation sonnets urging the man to whom he is writing to his beauty by not having children. The intended recipient of this and other sonnets is a subject of scholarly debate, with some believing it to be Henry Wriothesley....
    "), performed by Timothy Spall
    Timothy Spall

    Timothy Leonard Spall Order of the British Empire is a BAFTA award-nominated English people actor....
  26. "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill" ("Sonnet 91
    Sonnet 91

    Sonnet 91 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Peter Barkworth
    Peter Barkworth

    Peter Wynn Barkworth was an England actor.Peter Barkworth was born at Margate, Kent. Soon after, the family moved to Bramhall in Cheshire and Barkworth was educated at Stockport School....
  27. "How heavy do I journey on the way" ("Sonnet 50
    Sonnet 50

    Sonnet 50 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Gemma Jones
    Gemma Jones

    Gemma Jones is an English character actor on both stage and screen.Jones was born Jennifer Jones in London, England, the daughter of Irene and Griffith Jones , an actor....
  28. "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea" ("Sonnet 65
    Sonnet 65

    Sonnet 65 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Jonathan Pryce
    Jonathan Pryce

    Jonathan Pryce is a Wales award-winning theatre and film actor/singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and marrying Irish actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s....
  29. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore" ("Sonnet 60
    Sonnet 60

    Sonnet 60 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Richard Wilson
  30. "The quality of mercy is not strained" (from The Merchant of Venice
    The Merchant of Venice

    The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a Shakespearean comedies in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedy, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for...
     - Act 4, scene 1), performed by Des'ree
    Des'ree

    Des'ree is a United Kingdom pop music/soul music singer who was popular during the 1990s, mostly remembered for her hit record "Feel So High", "You Gotta Be", "Kissing You ", and "Life"....
  31. "Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said" ("Sonnet 56
    Sonnet 56

    Sonnet 56 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Tom Courtnay
  32. "Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind" ("Sonnet 113
    Sonnet 113

    Sonnet 113 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Zoe Waites
  33. "Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press" ("Sonnet 140
    Sonnet 140

    Interpretations*Edward Fox , for the 2002 compilation album, When Love Speaks External links...
    "), performed by Edward Fox
    Edward Fox (actor)

    Edward Charles Morrice Fox, Order of British Empire is an England stage, film and television actor. He is generally associated with the role of an upper-class Englishman....
  34. "It is for fear to wet a widow's eye", performed by Trevor Eve
    Trevor Eve

    Trevor John Eve is a United Kingdom film and television actor. In 1979 he gained fame as the eponymous lead in the detective series Shoestring , and is currently best known for his role as Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in BBC television drama Waking the Dead ....
  35. "So it is not with me as with that Muse" ("Sonnet 21
    Sonnet 21

    Sonnet 21 was written by William Shakespeare. Like Sonnet 130, it addresses the issue of truth in love, as the speaker frankly admits that his lines, while less extravagant than those of other poets, are more truthful....
    "), performed by Imogen Stubbs
    Imogen Stubbs

    Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn, , is a United Kingdom actress who was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. She is married to Sir Trevor Nunn and they have two children together: a son called Jesse and a daughter called Ellie....
  36. "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws" ("Sonnet 19
    Sonnet 19

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 19, sometimes considered the last of the opening group of sonnets, treats the theme of redemption of time through art....
    "), performed by David Harewood
    David Harewood

    David Harewood is an actor.Harewood began a career in 1990 and appeared in The Hawk , Great Moments in Aviation, Harnessing Peacocks, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Macbeth on the Estate, and Strings ....
  37. "The Willow Song", performed by Barbara Bonney
    Barbara Bonney

    Barbara Bonney is an United States soprano.Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist....
  38. "When my love swears that she is made of truth" ("Sonnet 138
    Sonnet 138

    Sonnet 138 is one of the most famous of Shakespeare sonnets. Making use of frequent puns , it shows an understanding of the nature of truth and flattery in romantic relationships....
    "), performed by Richard Johnson
    Richard Johnson (actor)

    Richard Johnson is an England actor, writer and producer, who starred in several British films of the 1960s and has also had a distinguished stage career....
  39. "When I do count the clock that tells the time" ("Sonnet 12
    Sonnet 12

    Sonnet 12 is another of William Shakespeare procreation sonnets. The poet goes through a series of images of mortality, such as a clock, a withering flower, a barren tree and autumn, etc....
    "), performed by Martin Jarvis
  40. "What potions have I drunk of siren tears" ("Sonnet 119
    Sonnet 119

    Sonnet 119 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Roger Hammond
    Roger Hammond (actor)

    Roger Hammond is an English character actor who has appeared in many films and television series.Hammond attended Cambridge University, and appeared extensively in their drama program, alongside actors such as Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, and John Wood ....
  41. "Not marble nor the gilded monuments" ("Sonnet 55
    Sonnet 55

    Sonnet 55 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Richard Briers
    Richard Briers

    Richard David Briers, Order of the British Empire is an English people actor whose career has encompassed the theatre, television, film and radio....
  42. "Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye" ("Sonnet 62
    Sonnet 62

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 62 is one of the poems in his sonnet sequence addressed to the young man with whom Shakespeare shares an intimate but tormented connection....
    "), performed by John Sessions
    John Sessions

    John Gibb Marshall , better known by the stage name John Sessions, is a Scotland actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?; as a panelist on QI and as a character actor in numerous films, both in Britain and Hollywood....
  43. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" ("Sonnet 116
    Sonnet 116

    Shakespeare's sonnet 116, first published in 1609. One of Shakespeare's most romantic works; often quotes at weddings....
    "), performed by Thelma Holt
    Thelma Holt

    Thelma Holt is a retired actress, and producer for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art....
  44. "Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly" ("Sonnet 8
    Sonnet 8

    Sonnet 8 is another procreation sonnets, urging the Shakespeare's sonnets#Fair Youth to whom it is addressed to marry and have children. A comparison is made between the harmony of different instruments in an orchestra and a harmonious relationship between a family....
    "), performed by Ladysmith Black Mambazo
    Ladysmith Black Mambazo

    Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a male choral group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of isicathamiya and mbube . They rose to worldwide prominence as a result of singing with Paul Simon on his album, Graceland and have won #Awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards....
  45. "When forty winters shall besiege thy brow" ("Sonnet 2
    Sonnet 2

    William Shakespeare 2nd sonnet is another procreation sonnet and inquiry into Time's destruction of Beauty, urging the Shakespeare's sonnets#Fair Youth of the sonnet to have a child....
    "), performed by Caroline Blakiston
    Caroline Blakiston

    Caroline Blakiston is an England actress who has appeared predominantly in television roles, notably in the series Brass . She also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....
  46. "No longer mourn for me when I am dead" ("Sonnet 71
    Sonnet 71

    Sonnet 71 is one of The Sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the The Sonnets#Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man....
    "), performed by Peter Bowles
    Peter Bowles

    Peter Bowles is an England actor.Bowles was born in London, England, the son of SarahJane and Herbert Reginald Bowles. He became famous in the late 1970s and 1980s for portraying upper class characters typically caught in hilarious situations....
  47. "Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate" ("Sonnet 142
    Sonnet 142

    Interpretations*Sylvia Syms, for the 2002 compilation album, When Love Speaks External links...
    "), performed by Sylvia Syms
    Sylvia Syms

    Sylvia Syms Order of the British Empire is an Ondas Awards England actor. She is probably best known for her roles in the films The Tamarind Seed, Ice Cold in Alex, No Trees in the Street and Woman in a Dressing Gown....
  48. "Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day" ("Sonnet 34
    Sonnet 34

    Shakespeare's Sonnet 34 is the second of the sequence, running until Sonnet 36, concerned with an unspecified sin committed against the speaker by a person the speaker loves....
    "), performed by Robert Lindsay
    Robert Lindsay (actor)

    Robert Lindsay is an award-winning English people actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles in Citizen Smith, My Family, and Hornblower ....
  49. "Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck" ("Sonnet 14
    Sonnet 14

    Shakespeare Sonnet 14 is another of his procreation sonnets, this one featuring the speaker declaring that he has the power to predict the future, but he does not do so by reading the stars or anything of the like, and he does not predict disasters or how well a prince will rule....
    "), performed by Ioan Gruffudd
    Ioan Gruffudd

    Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh people actor.Educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt....
  50. "My love is as a fever, longing still" ("Sonnet 147
    Sonnet 147

    SynopsisThe poet describes his love for the addressee of the sonnet as a 'fever'. His reason and lust have been at war, but lust has ignored all advice and now all is lost....
    "), performed by John Hurt
  51. "The little Love-God lying once asleep" ("Sonnet 154
    Sonnet 154

    Sonnet 153 and Sonnet 154 are based upon a poem attributed to the Greeks poet Marcianus Scholasticus. The poem describes how Cupid has his love brand stolen by nymphs....
    "), performed by Bohdan Poraj
  52. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" ("Sonnet 18
    Sonnet 18

    Sonnet 18, often alternately titled Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, is one of the best-known of Shakespeare's sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare....
    "), performed by Bryan Ferry
    Bryan Ferry

    Bryan Ferry is an English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor famed for his suave visual and vocal style. Ferry came to public prominence in the 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Roxy Music, which enjoyed a highly successful career with three albums and ten single s entering the Top 40 charts in the United Ki...
  53. "Our revels are now ended" (from The Tempest), performed by Joseph Fiennes