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

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

Sonnet 33

Original Text
SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): c3v.
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.

Notes

1] An extrametrical line. Back to Line
2] sov'reign] soueraine Q. Back to Line
4] heav'nly] heauenly Q. Back to Line
5] Anon permit] Soon [have I seen] permit. basest] lowest. Back to Line
6] rack] mass. Back to Line
8] to west] westward. Back to Line
9] Ev'n] Euen Q. Back to Line
12] region] high. Back to Line
13] disdain'th] disdaineth Q. Back to Line
14] stain] lose lustre, be stained. heav'n's] heauens Q. stain'th] stainteh Q. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1609
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2008
Rhyme
ababcdcdefefgg
Form
sonnet