Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904. | | | | I. Disappointment in Love | | Blighted Love | | Luís de Camões (c. 1524–1580) |
| | From the Portuguese by Lord Strangford |
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FLOWERS are fresh, and bushes green, | |
| Cheerily the linnets sing; | |
| Winds are soft, and skies serene; | |
| Time, however, soon shall throw | |
| Winter’s snow | 5 |
| O’er the buxom breast of Spring! | |
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| Hope, that buds in lover’s heart, | |
| Lives not through the scorn of years; | |
| Time makes love itself depart; | |
| Time and scorn congeal the mind,— | 10 |
| Looks unkind | |
| Freeze affection’s warmest tears. | |
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| Time shall make the bushes green; | |
| Time dissolve the winter snow; | |
| Winds be soft, and skies serene; | 15 |
| Linnets sing their wonted strain: | |
| But again | |
| Blighted love shall never blow! | | | |
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