“O, how I choke in uttering my disgrace!
Thinking I her embraced whom I did seek,
A mountain hard I found I did embrace.
Overgrown with trees and bushes nothing sleek.
Thus (grappling with a mountain face to face,
Which I stood pressing for her angel's cheek)
I was no man: no but a stupid block
And grew unto a rock another rock.”

— Luís de Camões

Stanza 56 (tr. Richard Fanshawe); spoken by Adamastor.
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto V

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Ó que não sei de nojo como o conte! Que, crendo ter nos braços quem amava, Abraçado me achei com um duro monte De áspero mato e de espessura brava. Estando com um penedo fronte a fronte, Que eu pelo rosto angélico apertava Não fiquei homem não, mas mudo e quedo, E junto dum penedo outro penedo.

Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto V

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Portuguese poet 1524–1580

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