Luís de Camões quotes - page 3

I was long ago undeceived that protesting could bring redress. But whoever suffers is bound to complain if the pain is great. So I did! But the cry that could offer relief is itself feeble and exhausted, and it is not through weeping that pain abates. (Luís de Camões)
O glory of commanding! O vain thirst Of that same empty nothing we call fame! View quote
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For, though in science much contained be, In special cases practice more doth see. View quote
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Go, gentle spirit! now supremely blest, From scenes of pain and struggling virtue go: From thy immortal seat of heavenly rest Behold us lingering in a world of woe! View quote
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Better deserve them, and to go without; Than have them undeserved. View quote
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I spoke, when rising through the darkened air, Appalled, we saw a hideous phantom glare. View quote
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Now let the judging reader mark what rex The idol gold (which all the world adoreth) Plays both in poor and rich: by money's thurst All laws and ties (divine, and human) burst. View quote
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O what devouring kisses (multiplied) What pretty whimperings, did the grove repeat! What flattering force! What anger which did chide Itself, and laughed when it began to threat! What more than this the blushing Morning spied, And Venus (adding hers to the Noon's heat) Is better tried, than guessed, I must confess: But those who cannot try it, let them guess. View quote
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Ah, Dinamene, Thou hast forsaken him Whose love for thee has never ceased, And no more will he behold thee on this earth! How early didst thou deem life of little worth! I found thee - Alas, to lose thee all too soon! How strong, how cruel the waves! Thou canst not ever know My longing and my grief! Did cold death still thy voice Or didst thou of thyself Draw the sable veil before thy lovely face? O sea, O sky, O fate obscure! To live without thee, Dinamene, avails me not. View quote
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I speak it to our shame; the cause no grand Poets adorn our country, is the small Encouragement to such: for how can he esteem, that understands not poetry? View quote
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He spoke, and deep a lengthened sigh he drew, A doleful sound, and vanished from the view: The frightened billows gave a rolling swell, And, distant far, prolonged the dismal yell; Faint and more faint the howling echoes die, And the black cloud dispersing leaves the sky. (Luís de Camões)
O, how I choke in uttering my disgrace! Thinking I her embraced whom I did seek, A mountain hard I found I did embrace. Overgrown with trees and bushes nothing sleek. Thus (grappling with a mountain face to face, Which I stood pressing for her angel's cheek) I was no man: no but a stupid block And grew unto a rock another rock. View quote
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My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself have all conspired against me. View quote
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A scene so solemn, and the tender woe Of parting friends, constrained my tears to flow. To weigh our anchors from our native shore- To dare new oceans never dared before- Perhaps to see my native coast no more- Forgive, O king, if as a man I feel, I bear no bosom of obdurate steel. (The godlike hero here suppressed the sigh, And wiped the tear-drop from his manly eye... View quote
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The moon, full orbed, forsakes her watery cave, And lifts her lovely head above the wave... View quote
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Proud over the rest, with splendid wealth arrayed, As crown to this wide empire, Europe's head, Fair Lusitania smiles, the western bound, Whose verdant breast the rolling waves surround. View quote
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Just like Love is yonder rose. View quote
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What care, what wisdom, is of suffisance The stroke of secret mischief to prevent, Unless the Sovereign Guardian from on high Supply the strength of frail Humanity? View quote
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As long as Fortune wanted me to keep on hoping for happiness I took pleasure in amorous thoughts and wrote down how they made me feel. But Love, afraid that what I write might serve free hearts as a warning, clouded my inspiration with torment to keep his deceits from coming to light. O you whom Love has made the slaves of various passions! When you read in one small book such varied cases know that they're pure truths, not tales, and that your own experience in love will lead you through my verses' meaning. View quote
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I, then inspired, the wondering world should see Great Ammon's warlike son revived in thee; Revived unenvious of the Muse's flame That over the world resounds Pelides' name. View quote
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Sonnet in full:. (Luís de Camões)
Dear gentle soul, you that departed this life so soon and reluctantly, rest in heaven eternally while I remain here, broken-hearted. View quote
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