| Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888. | | | | Corydon and Tityrus | | By Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580) |
| | Translated by J. J. Aubertin
BENEATH a green and lofty oak reclined, | |
| Corydon o’er the scale his ringer threw | |
| In ivy’s shade, whose clinging tendrils grew | |
| Among the trees, and round the branches twined. | |
| Of Amaryllis, nymph for whom he pined, | 5 |
| He sang the loves, love’s moving power he knew; | |
| The birds among the branches listening flew, | |
| And lower down did stream of crystal wind. | |
| To him comes Tityrus, who idly roved, | |
| Driving his meagre cattle o’er the plain; | 10 |
| Tityrus was friend of Corydon best loved. | |
| He tells him all his torment and his pain; | |
| By other’s speech the embittered is not moved, | |
| Nor grief makes sorrowful the heart that’s fain. | | | | |
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