Sonnet 33

Lyrics

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 splendor 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