Poetry
Sonnet No 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is...
Read by Michael Neill. Audio
Sonnet No 150: O, from what power hast thou this powerful might
Read by Donogh Rees. Audio
Sonnet No 149: Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not...
Read by Stuart Devenie. Audio
Sonnet No 146: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth...
Read by Raymond Hawthorne. Audio
Sonnet No 145: Those lips that Love's own hand did make...
Read by Charles Pierard. Audio
Sonnet No 142: Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate...
Read by Jennifer Ward-Lealand Music details: Dowland: What If A Day (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
Sonnet No 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes...
Read by Michael Neill. Music details: John Johnson: Passing measures Pavan (Naxos 8.550776). Audio
Sonnet No 140: Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press...
Read Elizabeth McRae. Music details: Dowland: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
Sonnet No 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong...
Read by Michael Hurst Music details: Dowland: Pavan (P16) (Naxos 8.557862). Audio
Sonnet No 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth...
Read by Elrich Hooper. Music details: John Johnson: Delight Galliard (Virgin VC 7 91216). Audio
Leonel Alvarado
Poet Leonel Alvarado was born in Honduras, lived in the US and now calls New Zealand home. He moved here more than a decade ago to lecture at Massey University in Palmerston North. Now he's published… Audio
Sonnet No 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes...
Read by Linda Cartwright . Music details: Dowland: Lachrimae (Glossa GCD 920 109). Audio
Sonnet No 136: If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near...
Read by Charles Pierard. Music details: Tobias Hume: A Souldiers Resolution (AliaVox AV 9837). Audio
Sonnet No 135: Whoever hath thy wish, thou hast thy Will...
Read by Stuart Devenie Music details: Dowland: Can She Excuse (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
Sonnet No 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine
Read by Raymond Hawthorne. Music details: Dowland: Farewell "In Nomine" (Fantasy No 4) (Naxos 8.557586) Audio
Sonnet No 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
Read George Henare. Music details: Dowland: Fortune (Glossa GCD 920 109) Audio
