Camões's most famous lines, from The Lusiads to the sonnets
The top 3 according to 26 votes from people: Let all that the ancient Muse sings cease, / for a higher valour now arises. · At sea so many storms and so much harm, / so many times death foreseen! · O glory of command! O vain greed / for this vanity we call Fame!. (Updated Jul 31, 2020.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Português). See the original
Top 13
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Let all that the ancient Muse sings cease, / for a higher valour now arises.
The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 3.
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2
At sea so many storms and so much harm, / so many times death foreseen!
The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 106.
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O glory of command! O vain greed / for this vanity we call Fame!
The Lusiads, canto IV, stanza 95, the Old Man of Restelo.
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4
I am that hidden and great Cape / that you call the Cape of Storms
The Lusiads, canto V, stanza 50, the giant Adamastor.
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5
My gentle soul, who departed / so early from this life, discontented
Sonnet "My gentle soul, who departed".
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6
And you, my nymphs of the Tagus, since you have created / in me a new and ardent genius
The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 4.
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7
Where the land ends and the sea begins
The Lusiads, canto III, stanza 20.
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8
This is my happy, beloved homeland
The Lusiads, canto III, stanza 21.
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9
You were, fair Inês, at peace, / gathering the sweet fruit of your years
The Lusiads, canto III, stanza 120, the episode of Inês de Castro.
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10
Arms and the heroes who, from the western Lusitanian shore, / by seas never sailed before, / passed even beyond Taprobana
The Lusiads, canto I, stanza 1, the opening of the poem.
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Love is a fire that burns unseen, / a wound that hurts and is not felt
Sonnet "Love is a fire that burns unseen".
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12
Seven years as a shepherd Jacob served / Laban, father of Rachel, the fair mountain maid
Sonnet "Seven years Jacob served as a shepherd".
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13
Times change, wills change, / being changes, trust changes
Sonnet "Times change, wills change".
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