Troubadours and Trouvères: New and OldRoberts, 1876 - 280 pages |
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afar Arnaut Arnaut Daniel Arthur Aubanel beauty Behold birds brave Calendau called canto castle court cried dawn dead death dost doth dream eyes fair felibre fell flowers Françonette Frédéric Mistral French Gareth Gascon grace Guinevere Guiraut de Bornelh hast hath heard heart heaven Holy honor Isolt JACQUES JASMIN Jasmin king King Arthur kiss lady living lord lovers Malory Marcel Merlin Mirèio Mistral mother never night o'er once Pascal Peire Vidal poem poet poetry pray prayer Provençal Provençal literature queen Raimbaut Raymond Raynouard rhymes romance Roquefort Rossillon seems Severan shine sing Sir Launcelot Sir Pelleas song sorrow soul story strange sweet tale Tennyson thee Theodore Aubanel thine thou art told Toulouse Tristram troubadour TROUVÈRES turned unto Uther Pendragon verse weeping Wherefore wife William of Cabestaing William of Poitiers wilt wonder wrought
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Page 254 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him; and to every seed his own body.
Page 275 - ... and thou were the truest lover, of a sinful man, that ever loved woman; and thou wert the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou wert the meekest man, and the gentlest, that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou wert the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.
Page 271 - Through this man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world ; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
Page 234 - Rather than that gray king, whose name, a ghost, Streams like a cloud, man-shaped, from mountain peak, And cleaves to cairn and cromlech still; or him Of Geoffrey's book, or him of Malleor's...
Page 269 - Perchance, because we see not to the close; — For I, being simple, thought to work His will, And have but stricken with the sword in vain; And all whereon I lean'd in wife and friend Is traitor to my peace, and all my realm Reels back into the beast, and is no more. My God, thou hast forgotten me in my death : Nay — God my Christ — I pass but shall not die.
Page 269 - O me! for why is all around us here As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would, Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful?
Page 266 - Launcelot du Lake. Sir, said he, then be ye welcome, for ye were the beginner of me in this world. Ah, said he, are ye Galahad ? Yea, forsooth, said he ; and so he kneeled down and asked him his blessing, and after took off his helm and kissed him. And there was great joy between them, for there is no tongue can tell the joy that they made either of other, and many a friendly word spoken between, as kin would, the which is no need here to be rehearsed.
Page 272 - Now, sweet madam, said Sir Launcelot, would ye that I should now return again unto my country, and there to wed a lady? Nay, madam, wit you well that shall I never do, for I shall never be so false to you of that I have promised; but the same destiny that ye have taken you to, I will take me unto, for to please Jesu, and ever for you I cast me specially to pray.
Page 274 - Launcelot had been priest near a twelvemonth: "And hither he cometh as fast as he may to fetch my corpse: and beside my lord King Arthur he shall bury me.
Page 273 - that shall I never do, but abstain you from such works.' And they departed. But there was never so hard an hearted man but he would have wept to see the dolour that they made; for there was lamentation as they had been stungen with spears; and many times they swooned, and the ladies bare the queen to her chamber.