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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 33. TO A LADY WHO DIED AT SEA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou to whose power my hopes, my joys, I give
Last Line: While time, and love, and memory shall endure,
Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean
First Line: Thou to whose power my hopes, my joys, I give
Last Line: While time, and love, and memory shall endure,
Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De
Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean
THOU to whose power my hopes, my joys, I give,
O fondly loved! my bosom's dearest care!
Earth, which denied to lend thy form a grave,
Yields not one spell to soothe my deep despair!
Yes! the wild seas entomb those charms divine,
Dark o'er thy head th' eternal billows roll;
But while one ray of life or thought is mine,
Still shalt thou live, the inmate of my soul.
And if the tones of my uncultured song
Have power the sad remembrance to prolong,
Of love so ardent, and of faith so pure;
Still shall my verse thine epitaph remain,
Still shall thy charms be deathless in my strain,
While Time, and Love, and Memory shall endure,
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