STAY, shade of my shy treasure!
STAY, shade of my shy treasure! Oh, remain, 1.
Thou image of the charmer I love best
Fair dream, for which I die with joyful breast. 3.
Illusion sweet, for which I live in pain!
Thy winning graces all my heart enchain; 5.
It follows as the steel the magnet’s test;
But wherefore gain my love and make me blest 7.
If thou must mock me, fading soon again?
Yet canst thou never boast, with fullest pride, 9.
Triumphant o’er me is thy tyranny;
For though thou from the Glose embrace dost glide 11.
That held thy visionary form to me,
No matter! In my arms thou wilt not bide,
But fancy builds a prison still for thee!
trans. Alice Stone Blackwell
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This text was first published in1692in Madrid.
The text of the document was initially prepared from and proofed against Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, "Sonnet" in Some Spanish-American Poets. Ed. Isaac Goldberg; trans. Alice Stone Blackwell. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1937, 148. All preliminaries have been omitted except those for which the author is responsible and those in which editorial notes indicate significant textual variations. Line and paragraph numbers contained in the source text have been retained. In cases where the source text displays no numbers, numbers are automatically generated. In the header, personal names have been regularized according to the Library of Congress authority files as "Last Name, First Name" for the REG attribute and "First Name Last Name" for the element value. Names have not been regularized in the body of the text.