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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (13)
2023-12-06ROSES. RONSARD I SEND you here a wreath of blossoms blown, And woven flowers at sunset gathered, Another dawn had seen them ruined, and shed Loose lea...
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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (12)
2023-12-06APRIL. REMY BELLEAU APRIL, pride of woodland ways, Of glad days, April, bringing hope of prime, To the young flowers that beneath Their bud sheath Are...
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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (11)
2023-12-06A SONNET TO HEAVENLY BEAUTY. DU BELLAY IF this our little life is but a day In the Eternal, - if the years in vain Toil after hours that never come ag...
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2023-12-06TO HIS FRIEND IN ELYSIUM. DU BELLAY, . SO long you wandered on the dusky plain, Where flit the shadows with their endless cry, You reach the shore whe...
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2023-12-06A VOW TO HEAVENLY VENUS. DU BELLAY, WE that with like hearts love, we lovers twain, New wedded in the village by thy fane, Lady of all chaste love, to...
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2023-12-06HYMN TO THE WINDS. DUBELLAY To you, troop so fleet, That with winged wandering feet, Through the wide world pass, And with soft murmuring Toss the gre...
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2023-12-06BALLAD OF THE GIBBET. [An epitaph in the form of a ballad that Francois Villon wrote of himself and his company, they expecting shortly to be hanged.]...
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2023-12-06L'ENVOY. Princess, by whom my hope is fed, My heart thee prays in lowlihead To prune the ill boughs overgrown, Nor slay Love's tree, nor plant...
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2023-12-06ARBOR AMORIS. FRANCOIS VILLON, I HAVE a tree, a graft of Love, That in my heart has taken root; Sad are the buds and blooms thereof, And bitter sorrow...
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2023-12-06RONDEL. FRANCOIS VILLON,GOODBYE! the tears are in my eyes; Farewell, farewell, my prettiest; Farewell, of women born the best; Good-bye! the saddest o...