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William Shakespeare (ca. 1564-1616)

Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen

1Full many a glorious morning have I seen

2Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,

3Kissing with golden face the meadows green,

4Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;

5Anon permit the basest clouds to ride

6With ugly rack on his celestial face

7And from the forlorn world his visage hide,

8Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.

9Even so my sun one early morn did shine

10With all-triumphant splendour on my brow;

11But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;

12The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.

13Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;

14Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.

Notes

5] permit: i.e., have I seen the morning permit.

7] forlorn: stressed on the first syllable.

8] to west: westward.

12] region cloud: cloud in the upper air.

14] stain: grow dim, be obscured.

Online text copyright © 2012, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: William Shakespeare, Shake-speares sonnets (London: G. Eld for T. T., 1609). STC 22353. Facs. edn.: London: J. Cape, 1925. PR 2750 B48 1609b ROBA.
First publication date: 1609
RPO poem editor: F. D. Hoeniger
RP edition: 3RP 1.139-40.
Recent editing: 2:2002/3/28

Form: sonnet
Rhyme: ababcdcdefefgg

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