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Sonnet 23

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

• Gutenberg e-text #1041
• Wikipedia - William Shakespeare
• LibriVox’s Sonnet 23 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (4.8 MB)
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mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 - 00:01:27
  [mp3@64kbps - 698.3KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:01:12
  [mp3@64kbps - 582.3KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.0MB]
  Read by: Cori Samuel
• Version 3 - 00:01:38
  [mp3@64kbps - 788.0KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Gord MacKenzie
• Version 4 - 00:01:38
  [mp3@64kbps - 785.9KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.5MB]
  Read by: Hugh McGuire
• Version 5 - 00:00:50
  [mp3@64kbps - 402.0KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 803.4KB]
  [ogg vorbis - 699.5KB]
  Read by: Kristen McQuillin
• Version 6 - 00:01:11
  [mp3@64kbps - 568.6KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 945.2KB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• Version 7 - 00:01:15
  [mp3@64kbps - 601.4KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.2MB]
  Read by: mtl3p
• Version 8 - 00:00:48
  [mp3@64kbps - 392.2KB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 782.9KB]
  [ogg vorbis - 781.6KB]
  Read by: Scott Munro