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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 178, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poet's Biography First Line: Oft have I sung and mourned the bitter woes Last Line: For ever hushed, shall slumber in your fane. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Love – Complaints | |||
OFT have I sung and mourned the bitter woes, Which Love for years hath mingled with my fate, While he the tale forbade me to disclose, That taught his votaries their deluded state. Nymphs! who dispense Castalia's living stream, Ye, who from Death oblivion's mantle steal, Grant me a strain in powerful tone supreme, Each grief by love inflicted to reveal: That those whose ardent hearts adore his sway, May hear experience breathe a warning lay, How false his smiles, his promises how vain Then, if ye deign this effort to inspire, When the sad task is o'er, my plaintive lyre, For ever hushed, shall slumber in your fane. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TRIESTE - CIAO TO ITALY by SANDRA CISNEROS NAMING PARTS by CAROL ANN DUFFY UNHAPPY LOVE POEM by EDWARD HIRSCH LOVE IS HIS NEMESIS: IT FOLLOWS HIM INTO SLEEP by DAVID IGNATOW |
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