Sonnets and other poems / Luís de Camões ; translated by Richard Zenith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camões, Luís de, 1524?-1580, author.

Contributor:

Zenith, Richard, translator.

Series:

Adamastor book series ; 3.

Adamastor ; 3

Language:

English

Portuguese

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Dartmouth, MA. : Tagus Pres. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, [2026]

Language Note:

Poems presented in facing page translation with Portugeuse on the verso and English on the rectos.

Contents:

Sonnets

Enquanto quis Fortuna que tivesse

As long as Fortune wanted me

Eu cantarei de amor tao docemente

So sweetly will I sing of love

Amor e um fogo que arde sem se ver

Love is a fire that burns unseen

Tanto de meu estado me acho incerto

The state I'm in is so unsteady

Transforma-se o amador na cousa amada

The lover becomes the thing he loves

Um mover d'olhos, brando e piadoso

Eyes that flash with gentle pity

Pois meus olhos nao cansam de chorar

Since my eyes don't tire of weeping

Erros meus, ma fortuna, amor ardente

My errors, cruel fortune and ardent love

Oh! como se me alonga, de ano em ano

Oh how long, year after year

No mundo poucos anos, e cansados

Few and wearisome years I lived

Correm turvas as aguas deste rio

Muddy waters flow in this river

O tempo acaba o ano, o mes e a hora

Time swallows the year, the month, the hour

Busque Amor novas artes, novo engenho

Let Love devise new ways, new wiles

Alegres campos, verdes arvoredos

O happy fields and green woods

Sete anos de pastor Jacob servia

For seven years as a shepherd Jacob

Alma minha gentil, que te partiste

O most gentle soul who left

Males, que contra mim vos conjurastes

Afflictions that conspired against me

Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades

Times change, desires change

Por sua Ninfa, Cefalo deixava

Although she ushers in the day

Ditoso seja aquele que somente

Happy the man who only complains

Em prisoes baixas fui um tempo atado

Bound for a time in deep prisons

Que poderei do mundo ja querer?

What can I want from the world now?

Despois que quis Amor que eu so passasse

After Love made me suffer, alone

O raio cristalino s'estendia

The crystalline ray of dappled Dawn

Com grandes esperancas ja cantei

Once I sang with hopes so strong

Eu cantei ja, e agora vou chorando

I used to sing and now I weep

No tempo que de amor viver soia

Back in the days when I lived for Love

Verdade, Amor, Razao, Merecimento

Truth, Love, Reason and Virtue

Na ribeira do Eufrates assentado

Sitting beside the Euphrates River

Ca nesta Babiblonia, donde mana

Here in this Babylon flowing with gold

Doces lembrancas da passada gloria

O sweet memories of my past glory

Quando de minhas magoas a comprida

When endless dwelling on my sorrows

Lembrancas que lembrais meu bem passado

O memories that deepen my present sorrow

Como fizeste, Porcia, tal ferida?

"How did you suffer such injury, Portia?"

Aquela triste e leda madrugada

Oh let that sad and joyful dawn

Aqueles claros olhos que, chorando

Those pale eyes that kept on crying

Dai-meu.

Notes:

"Luso-American Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781951470227

1951470222

OCLC:

1535771310

Publisher Number:

90104761840