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Translation Trashbin - 36. Amor é um fogo

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Amor é um fogo

by Luís de Camões

 

 

Amor é um fogo que arde sem se ver;

É ferida que dói, e não se sente;

É um contentamento descontente;

É dor que desatina sem doer.

 

É um não querer mais que bem querer;

É solitário andar por entre a gente;

É um não contentar-se de contente;

É cuidar que se ganha em se perder.

 

É um estar-se preso por vontade;

É servir a quem vence o vencedor;

É um ter com quem nos mata lealdade.

 

Mas como causar póde o seu favor

Nos mortaes corações conformidade,

Sendo a si tão contrário o mesmo amor? [i]

 

 

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Love's a fire whose burning is never seen;

He's a wound that hurts, but is never quite felt;

He's a raging discontented contentment;

He's a pain that eats away without throbbing.

 

He's pure wanting, whose want is to be desired;

He's loneliness amongst the crowds of people;

He's not satisfied with mere complacency;

He's the caring that's achieved through surrender.

 

He's the desire playing captive to the will;

He serves the man who vanquishes the victor;

He's fealty to the one who'd still slay us.

 

But how to bring his favor to mortal hearts,

So seemingly dead in their conformity,

When the same love acts contrary to himself?

 

 

 

 

 

 


[i] “Amor é um fogo” Luís de Camões, reprinted in Joaquim Nabuco Camoens — The Lyric Poet: Address at Vassar College on April 21, 1909 (Poughkeepsie 1909), ps. 11-12

https://www.epedagogia.com.br/materialbibliotecaonine/1827Camoens-the-lyric-poet.pdf

 

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This is a poem to be savored. The first stanza is immortal; the final sestet cries out to be re-read over and again. Thank you for bringing this poem to everyone. 

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22 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

This is a poem to be savored. The first stanza is immortal; the final sestet cries out to be re-read over and again. Thank you for bringing this poem to everyone. 

I may be late to the Camões bandwagon, but it's not for nothing he's considered one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

Thank you, my dear friend

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20 minutes ago, Tonyr said:

Muito bem. Maravilhoso. Obrigado @AC Benus

Thank you for reading, Tonyr, and for your awesome feedback :)

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