Sonnet XXXIII: Full many a Glorious Morning have I Seen

Shakespeare, William (1564 - 1616)

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.

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. Back to Line

7] forlorn: stressed on the first syllable. Back to Line

8] to west: westward. Back to Line

12] region cloud: cloud in the upper air. Back to Line

14] stain: grow dim, be obscured. Back to Line

Publication Start Year

1609

RPO poem Editors

F. D. Hoeniger

RPO Edition

3RP 1.139-40.

Rhyme

ababcdcdefefgg

Form

sonnet