Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 58, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poet's Biography First Line: Should love, the tyrant of my suffering heart Last Line: Find amplest vengeance for my former pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Love – Complaints; Vengeance | ||||||||
SHOULD Love, the tyrant of my suffering heart, Yet long enough protract his votary's days, To see the lustre from those eyes depart, The lode-stars now that fascinate my gaze; To see rude Time the living roses blight, That o'er thy cheek their loveliness unfold, And, all unpitying, change thy tresses bright, To silvery whiteness, from their native gold; Oh! then thy heart an equal change will prove, And mourn the coldness that repelled my love, When tears and penitence will all be vain; And I shall see thee weep for days gone by, And in thy deep regret aud fruitless sigh, Find amplest vengeance for my former pain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT THE FALL OF AN AGE by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE STORY OF URIAH by RUDYARD KIPLING THE FAMINE YEAR by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE THE MAID'S TRAGEDY by FRANCIS BEAUMONT PRAYER FOR STRENGTH by MARGARET E. BRUNER VENGEANCE IS MINE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON WARNEFORD, V.C. by HENRY CHAPPELL |
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