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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... shining blade , Nor rests unknown how Lusus ' heroes stood When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood ; What glorious laurels Viriatus1 gain'd , How oft his sword with Roman gore was stain'd ; 1 This brave Lusitanian , who was first ...
... shining blade , Nor rests unknown how Lusus ' heroes stood When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood ; What glorious laurels Viriatus1 gain'd , How oft his sword with Roman gore was stain'd ; 1 This brave Lusitanian , who was first ...
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... shining armour , and our arms of fire ; For who has once in friendly peace beheld , Will dread to meet them on the battle field . " Straight as he spoke the warlike stores display'd Their glorious show , where , tire on tire inlaid , 1 ...
... shining armour , and our arms of fire ; For who has once in friendly peace beheld , Will dread to meet them on the battle field . " Straight as he spoke the warlike stores display'd Their glorious show , where , tire on tire inlaid , 1 ...
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... shining wave the god of day Retiring , left the evening shades to spread ; And to the fleet the joyful herald sped : To find such friends each breast with rapture glows , The feast is kindled , and the goblet flows ; The trembling ...
... shining wave the god of day Retiring , left the evening shades to spread ; And to the fleet the joyful herald sped : To find such friends each breast with rapture glows , The feast is kindled , and the goblet flows ; The trembling ...
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... shining point of many a Lusian spear ; The mailcoats , hauberks , and the harness steel'd , Bruis'd , hack'd , and torn , lie scatter'd o'er the field ; Beneath the Lusian sweepy force o'erthrown , Crush'd by their batter'd mails the ...
... shining point of many a Lusian spear ; The mailcoats , hauberks , and the harness steel'd , Bruis'd , hack'd , and torn , lie scatter'd o'er the field ; Beneath the Lusian sweepy force o'erthrown , Crush'd by their batter'd mails the ...
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... shining waters run . Evora's frowning walls now shake with fear , And yield , obedient to Giraldo's spear . Nor rests the monarch while his servants toil , Around him still increasing trophies smile , And deathless fame repays the ...
... shining waters run . Evora's frowning walls now shake with fear , And yield , obedient to Giraldo's spear . Nor rests the monarch while his servants toil , Around him still increasing trophies smile , And deathless fame repays the ...
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