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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poet's Biography First Line: How strange a fate in love is mine! Last Line: It is what none on earth must know. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Pain; Love – Unrequited | |||
HOW strange a fate in love is mine! How dearly prized the pains I feel! Pangs, that to rend my soul combine, With avarice I conceal: For did the world the tale divine, My lot would then be deeper woe, And mine is grief, that none must know. To mortal ears I may not dare Unfold the cause, the pain I prove; 'Twould plunge in ruin and despair Or me, or her I love. My soul delights alone to bear Her silent, unsuspected woe, And none shall pity, none shall know. Thus buried in my bosom's urn, Thus in my inmost heart concealed. Let me alone the secret mourn, In pangs unsoothed and unrevealed, For whether happiness or woe, Or life or death its power bestow, It is what none on earth must know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA PALMA by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA BEAUTY SHOPPE by MARILYN NELSON EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, IN ANSWER TO SOME LINES TO BE CHEERFUL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25 by THOMAS CAMPION A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 33 by THOMAS CAMPION A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 37 by THOMAS CAMPION SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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