Camoens - The Lyrics part 1 - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)

SONNETS.Being in Earth-Life unto Heaven I fly :Find in one hour one thousand years, nathelessIn thousand years I find no hour to claim.If any ask me wherefore so fare I ;My answer is Iknow not, yet I guessTis but because I saw your sight,Madame ITransforma se o amador na coma amada^(He corrects a carnal thought. Cf. Sonnet 31, Canz. I. 3).Becomes the Lover to the Loved transmewed,By thoughts and reveries the Fancy fire :Then have I nothing left me to desire,For the Desired is in me endued.If my transmewed soul in her be viewed,What can my formal body look for higher ?retire,Only in self for Rest it canSince that same Spirit hath my form imbrued.But this half-goddess with fair purity fraught,As Subject dwells in Accident inlaid,So to this Soul of mine shows self conform ;E'en as Idea fares she in my Thought ;AVhile the pure lively Love whereof I'm made,Like unto simple Matter seeks its Form.