Philippe Desportes

Philippe Desportes or Desports (1546 – 5 October 1606) was a French poet.

Quotes

• Icare est chut ici, le jeune audacieux,
  Qui pour voler au ciel eut assez de courage:
  Ici tomba son corps dégarni de plumage,
  Laissant tous braves cœurs de sa chute envieux.
  • Here fell Icarus, that with daring glee
      Launched his frail body thro' the airy deep;
      Here his unfledgèd corse flung down the steep,
    Making all brave hearts wish to fall as he.
  • Les Amours d'Hippolyte (1573), sonnet 1, ll. 1–4 (Tr. Wilfrid Thorley)

• Il mourut poursuivant une haute aventure;
  Le ciel fut son désir, la mer sa sépulture:
  Est-il plus beau dessein, ou plus riche tombeau?
  • Les Amours d'Hippolyte (1573), sonnet 1, ll. 12–14

External links

• Henry Francis Cary, "The Early French Poets. Philippe Desportes", in The London Magazine, vol. 6 (September 1822), p. 205; reprinted in The Early French Poets (Henry G. Bohn, 1846), p. 136

• Samuel Waddington, Collected Poems (London: George Bell and Sons, 1902), p. 225

• Wilfred Thorley, A Bouquet from France (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926), p. 75

• Clara Longworth de Chambrun, Playing with Souls (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922), ch. 10, p. 199