RPO -- William Shakespeare : Shakespeare's Sonnets: Full many a glorious morning have I seen

William Shakespeare (ca. 1564-1616)

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Sonnet 33

1Full many a glorious morning have I seen

2Flatter the mountain tops with sov'reign eye,

3Kissing with golden face the meadows green;

4Gilding pale streams with heav'nly 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:

9Ev'n so my sun one early morn did shine

10With all triumphant splendor on my brow,

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

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

13 Yet him for this, my love no whit disdain'th,

14 Suns of the world may stain, when heav'n's sun stain'th.

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Notes

1] An extrametrical line.

2] sov'reign] soueraine Q.

4] heav'nly] heauenly Q.

5] Anon permit] Soon [have I seen] permit. basest] lowest.

6] rack] mass.

8] to west] westward.

9] Ev'n] Euen Q.

12] region] high.

13] disdain'th] disdaineth Q.

14] stain] lose lustre, be stained. heav'n's] heauens Q. stain'th] stainteh Q.

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: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): c3v.
First publication date: 1609
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2008
Recent editing: 1:2008/8/23

Form: sonnet
Rhyme: ababcdcdefefgg

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