Tom Hiddleston reads Shakespeare’s Sonnets

I found a lovely reading of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets read by Tom Hiddleston. I thought it was a perfect addition to the video from our spring travels. We found amazing yellow rapeseed flower fields in Germany. The fields seem to go on forever, and they are wonderful to explore! Springtime in Germany is Tom Hiddleston’s voice is always enchanting :) ____________________________________________________________________ Sonnet 98 (From you have I been absent in the spring) by William Shakespeare From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer’s story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away, As with your shadow I with these did play: • ────────────────────────────────── • Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds) by William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov’d, I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d. • ────────────────────────────────── • Music: Birdsong from BurghRecords Piano Music from Argsound Background Music You can find more of Tom Hiddleston reading Shakespeare and other poems from the Love Book App (available on the app store) or check out their YouTube channel here ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow me on Instagram I upload new photos every day: Blog: Follow me on Pinterest I post travel ideas from everywhere in the world! Follow me on Facebook: