History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2)

Note 321 — CHAP. III. HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, FROM THE LATTER YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY UNTIL TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH.

Thomasina Ross translation

The following sonnet on the catholic worship of the cross may serve as a specimen:—

Se em golfo de sereas proceloso, Empenho repetido do cuidado, O sabio Grego, ao duro Mastro, atado âs Sereas escapa cauteloso. Eu, no mar deste mundo tormentoso De Sirtes et Sereas povoado, â vossa Cruz, Senhor, sempre abraçado Os perigos escape venturoso. Oh livraime, meu Deos, de tanto astuto Laberintho, de tanto cego encanto, Para que colha desta planta o fruto; Que he justo, doce Amor, em risco tanto, Se salva a Ulisses hum madeiro bruto, Que a mim me salve este madeiro Santo.

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