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Alamanda Alfonso Alfonso II allusions Anfos Aquitaine Arnaut Daniel Autafort BARBARA SMYTHE barons Bartsch beauty Bernart of Ventadorn Bertran de Born biography brother castle Constantin Count of Périgord Count of Poitou Count of Toulouse court Crusade Dante delight desire doth e'er evil fair faith fear feminine France give grief grieved Guilhem de Cabestanh Guiraut de Bornelh hear heart hexasyllabic honour Jaufre joglar King Henry King of Aragon kiss KOLSEN lady lord lover luck Marseilles masculine lines melodies Metrical form Metrical form.-Stanzas Metrical form.-The ne'er never noble Peire Vidal Philip pleases poem poets praise Provençal Provençal literature rejoice Rime system Rossilhon Rudel sake sing Sir Ademar Sir Arnaut Sir Barral Sir Bertran Sir Richard sirventes song soon sorrow stanza STIMMING story sweet syllables Talairan tell thought took tornada translation trobadors Troubadours trouble true Viscount of Limoges wherefore words wrote Young King
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Page xv - O brother, and death, For the sweet last sound of her feet, her breath, For gifts she gave you, gracious and few, Tears and kisses, that lady of yours. Rest, and be glad of the gods; but I, How shall I praise them, or how take rest? There is not room under all the sky For me that know not of worst or best, Dream or desire of the days before, Sweet things or bitterness, any more.
Page 125 - And he sang better than any man in the world. And he was one of the maddest men who ever were, for he believed to be true whatever pleased him and whatever he wanted. And making songs came to him more easily than to any other man in the world; and it was he who made the loveliest melodies and said the craziest things concerning arms and love and slandering another.
Page 33 - It of itself made to itself a lamp, And they were two in one, and one in two; How that can be, He knows who so ordains it.
Page 24 - It is no wonder that I sing better than any other singer, for my heart draws me more toward love and I am better suited to its command.
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Page xi - Prince of Blaye. And he fell in love with the Countess of Tripoli, whom he had never seen, through the praise that he heard of her from the pilgrims who came from Antioch.
Page 90 - I'aus batr'ab ram ni ah verga, Sivals a fratt, lai on non aurai oncle, Jauzirai joi, en vergier o dim cambra. Longing that my heart doth enter Cannot uprooted be by beak or nail Of slanderer, who by lies ruins his soul. Since I dare not beat him with twig or rod, At least in secret, where I have no uncle, I will have joy in orchard or in room. And when I recall the room Where to my grief 1 know no man can enter...