# Camões's most famous lines, from The Lusiads to the sonnets

From "Arms and the heroes" to "Love is a fire that burns unseen": the lines by Luís Vaz de Camões that every Portuguese knows by heart, with the canto and stanza of The Lusiads (1572) or the sonnet they come from.

- 26 votes · 13 items
- Jul 31, 2020 · leitora_salvador
- https://even.best/en/l/5282/camoes-s-most-famous-lines-from-the-lusiads-to-the-sonnets

## Top 13

1. **Let all that the ancient Muse sings cease, / for a higher valour now arises.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 3.
2. **At sea so many storms and so much harm, / so many times death foreseen!** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 106.
3. **O glory of command! O vain greed / for this vanity we call Fame!** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Lusiads, canto IV, stanza 95, the Old Man of Restelo.
4. **I am that hidden and great Cape / that you call the Cape of Storms** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Lusiads, canto V, stanza 50, the giant Adamastor.
5. **My gentle soul, who departed / so early from this life, discontented** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Sonnet "My gentle soul, who departed".
6. **And you, my nymphs of the Tagus, since you have created / in me a new and ardent genius** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 4.
7. **Where the land ends and the sea begins** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Lusiads, canto III, stanza 20.
8. **This is my happy, beloved homeland** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Lusiads, canto III, stanza 21.
9. **You were, fair Inês, at peace, / gathering the sweet fruit of your years** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Lusiads, canto III, stanza 120, the episode of Inês de Castro.
10. **Arms and the heroes who, from the western Lusitanian shore, / by seas never sailed before, / passed even beyond Taprobana** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 1, the opening of the poem.
11. **Love is a fire that burns unseen, / a wound that hurts and is not felt** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Sonnet "Love is a fire that burns unseen".
12. **Seven years as a shepherd Jacob served / Laban, father of Rachel, the fair mountain maid** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Sonnet "Seven years Jacob served as a shepherd".
13. **Times change, wills change, / being changes, trust changes** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Sonnet "Times change, wills change".

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