“A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
The Reason of Church Government (1641), Book II, Introduction
“To this old song:
Partridge lost his quill,
there's no harm won't befall him.
Partridge, whose winged fancy
aspired to a high estate,
lost a feather in his flight
and won the pen of despondency.
He finds in the breeze no buoyancy
for his pennants to haul him:
there's no harm won't befall him.
He wished to soar to a high tower
but found his plumage clipped,
and, observing himself plucked,
pines away in despair.
If he cries out for succor,
stoke the fire to forestall him:
there's no harm won't befall him.”
<p>Perdigão perdeu a pena<br>Não há mal que lhe não venha.</p><p>Perdigão que o pensamento<br>Subiu a um alto lugar,<br>Perde a pena do voar,<br>Ganha a pena do tormento.<br>Não tem no ar nem no vento<br>Asas com que se sustenha:<br>Não há mal que lhe não venha.</p><p>Quis voar a üa alta torre,<br>Mas achou-se desasado;<br>E, vendo-se depenado,<br>De puro penado morre.<br>Se a queixumes se socorre,<br>Lança no fogo mais lenha:<br>Não há mal que lhe não venha.</p> <br class="br">"Perdigão que o pensamento", tr. Landeg White in The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (2016), p. 251 <br class="br"> Listen to the poem in Portuguese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P4_2W-ZwV8&feature=youtu.be&t=10m31s <br class="br">Lyric poetry, Songs (redondilhas)
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