Philippe Desportes

thumb| 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 Category:Poets from France Category:1540s births Category:1606 deaths