Sonnet · Nature
Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
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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- Poem
- Sonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen
- Poet
- William Shakespeare
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Sonnet
- Themes
- Nature, Love, Peace
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- 14 lines · one 14-line stanza
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- Author record
- William Shakespeare1564–1616
- Source record
- PoetryDBSonnet 33: Full many a glorious morning have I seen by william-shakespeare, PoetryDB transcription
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- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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