Sonnets by William Shakespeare: XXXIII

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

XXXIII

 Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:  Even so my sun one early morn did shine, With all triumphant splendour on my brow; But out! alack! he was but one hour mine, The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.   Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;   Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth. 
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