The Lusiad, Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem, Translated from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoëns, with a Life of the PoetThis poem, written in Homeric style, focuses on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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... bend the suppliant knee : Beneath the morn , ' dread king , thine empire lies , When midnight veils thy Lusitanian skies ; at Venice , who called himself Sebastian , King of Portugal , whom he so perfectly resembled , that the ...
... bend the suppliant knee : Beneath the morn , ' dread king , thine empire lies , When midnight veils thy Lusitanian skies ; at Venice , who called himself Sebastian , King of Portugal , whom he so perfectly resembled , that the ...
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... bends , Another ocean to their view extends , Where black - topp'd islands , to their longing eyes , Lav'd by the gentle waves , * in prospect rise . 1 Mercury , the messenger of the gods.-Ed. 2 And pastoral Madagascar . - Called by the ...
... bends , Another ocean to their view extends , Where black - topp'd islands , to their longing eyes , Lav'd by the gentle waves , * in prospect rise . 1 Mercury , the messenger of the gods.-Ed. 2 And pastoral Madagascar . - Called by the ...
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... bend ; And now their bowsprits pointing to the shore , ( A safe moon'd bay ) , with slacken'd sails they bore : With cheerful shouts they furl the gather'd sail That less and less flaps quiv'ring on the gale ; The prows , their speed ...
... bend ; And now their bowsprits pointing to the shore , ( A safe moon'd bay ) , with slacken'd sails they bore : With cheerful shouts they furl the gather'd sail That less and less flaps quiv'ring on the gale ; The prows , their speed ...
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... bends , And through the town the glad applause attends . But he whose cheeks with youth immortal shone , The god whose wondrous birth two mothers ' own , Whose rage had still the wand'ring fleet annoy'd , Now in the town his guileful ...
... bends , And through the town the glad applause attends . But he whose cheeks with youth immortal shone , The god whose wondrous birth two mothers ' own , Whose rage had still the wand'ring fleet annoy'd , Now in the town his guileful ...
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... bend the suppliant knee , And Indian monarchs , now secure and free , Beneath thy potent monarch's yoke shall bend , And thy just laws wide o'er the East extend . 1 Ulysses , king of Ithaka . - Ed . or creek 2 i.e. , the slave of ...
... bend the suppliant knee , And Indian monarchs , now secure and free , Beneath thy potent monarch's yoke shall bend , And thy just laws wide o'er the East extend . 1 Ulysses , king of Ithaka . - Ed . or creek 2 i.e. , the slave of ...
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