Lyrics of the Middle Ages

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The literature of the Middle Ages has been unduly neglected in this century, especially in the lyric phase, by both the teacher and the reader. For the reader, let it be said that he has had scant opportunity to do otherwise than neglect, unless he sought out old books in a library. New books have offered him little more than the scattered introductory sections in anthologies of translation, and the scholarly collections of early English poetry. Two or three recent anthologies of medieval writing give so little lyric poetry that it seems to have been considered rather a necessary blemish among the pages of prose than a brilliant manifestation of the spirit of the times. This collection is intended to fill the gap in a modest way, but is not a remedy for academic deficiencies I may touch upon later. It is, I believe, the first anthology to present only medieval poetry in translation in a broader than national scope. As for those teachers whom I charge at the outset, they tend, in the main, to stress medieval historical events, social and economic revolutions, and religious thought. GREEK - NOTE 3 Palladas — Praise of Women (Dudley Fitts) 4 — O Man, Remember (D. L. Feldstone) 5 Paulus Silentiarius — Tantalos (Dudley Fitts) 5 Agathias Scholasticus — Inscription For a Smyrna Privy (Dudley Fitts) 6 LATIN - NOTE 7 Claudius Claudianus — The Old Man of Verona (Abraham Cowley) 9 Boethius — The Search for Truth (Jack Lindsay) 10 Venantius Fortunatus — Hymn to the Holy Cross (J. M. Neale and Chambers) 12 — To Queen Radigunde With Herbs and Violets (Jack Lindsay) 13 Alcuin — To a Runaway Pupil (Jack Lindsay) 14 Walafrid Strabo — To His Friend in Absence (Helen Waddell) 15 Peter Abelard — Good Friday (Jack Lindsay) 16 Attributed to Abelard — Rumor Laetalis (Kenneth Rexroth) 17 Dum Diana Vitrea (George F. Whicher) 18 The Archpoet of Cologne — The Confession of Golias (George F. Whicher) 21 Anonymous — Flora (J. A. Symonds) 27 — The Vow to Cupid (J. A. Symonds) 29 — Flowering Time (George F. Whicher) 30 — A Song of Cash (Jack Lindsay) 32 — The Sweetness of Spring (J. A. Symonds) 34 — Veni Creator Spiritus (John Dryden) 34 Thomas of Celano — Dies Irae (Algernon Charles Swinburne) . 36 PROVENÇAL - NOTE 39 Guillem IX, Count of Poitou — Poem (Hubert Creekmore) 41 Marcabrun — Pastorela (Hubert Creekmore) 44 Bernard de Ventadorn — No Marvel Is it (Harriet W. Preston) 47 — Canso (Barbara Smythe) 48 Giraut de Bornelh — Canso (Hubert Creekmore) 49 Bertrans de Born — Disavowal (Edgar Taylor) 52 Arnaut Daniel — Canso (Harriet W. Preston) 53 The Monk of Montaudon — Vexational (Hubert Creekmore) 54 Peire Cardenal — Sirventes (Hubert Creekmore) 58 FRENCH — NOTE 61 Philippe de Thaon — The Unicorn (Richard Beaumont) 63 Anonymous Chansons de Toile — Fair Erembor (W. J. Linton) 65 — Poor Me (Richard Beaumont) 67 — Three Sisters (Richard Beaumont) 68 Anonymous — Song (Claude C. Abbott) 69 — Encounter (Claude C. Abbott) 70 The Chatelain of Coucy — Chanson (Louisa S. Costello) 72 Conon de Béthune — Too Late, My Love (Claude C. Abbott) 74 Thibaut of Champagne — Chanson (Henry Adams) 76 — Chanson: Leaving on Crusade (Louisa S. Costello) 77 Colin Muset — Complaint of the Minstrel’s Life (J. G. Legge) 78 Marie de France — Song from Chartivel (Arthur O’Shaughnessy) 80 Rutebeuf — The Poet’s Poverty (J. G. Legge) 82 Jean Froissart — Virelay (Louisa S. Costello) 84 Christine de Pisan — If Frequently to Mass (J. G. Legge) 85 Charles d’Orléans — Rondel to His Mistress (Andrew Lang) 86 — Rondeau of Spring (W. E. Henley) 86 — Rondeau: The Well (Barbara Howes) 87 — Ballade Written During Captivity in England (Alan Conder) 87 — Ballade: The Hostelry of Thought (Barbara Howes) 89 François Villon — His Mother’s Service to Our Lady (D. G. Rossetti) 90 — Epistle in Form of a Ballad to His Friends (Algernon Charles Swinburne) 91 — Ballade of the Hanged Men (Robert Fitzgerald) 92 — Lament of the Lovely Helmet-Dealer (Hubert Creekmore) 94 PORTUGUESE (GALICIAN) — NOTE 97 Joan Zorro — Barcarola (Seth G. Thornton) 99 Martin Codax — Cantiga de Amigo (Seth G. Thornton) 100 Nuno Fernandes Tornoel — Alvorada (Seth G. Thornton) 101 Pero Meogo — Cantiga de Amigo (Seth G. Thornton) 102 — Cossante (Seth G. Thornton) 103 Roy Fernandez — Barcarola (Seth G. Thornton) 104 Airas Nunez — Balaida (Seth G. Thornton) 105 King Alfonso X — Cantiga de Santa Maria (Seth G. Thornton) 106 King Dinis — Cossante (Seth G. Thornton) 108 — Cantiga de Amor (Seth G. Thornton) 109 — Alvorada (Seth G. Thornton) 110 Gil Vincente — Cantiga (Seth G. Thornton) 111 — Esparsa (Seth G. Thornton) 111 SPANISH (CASTILIAN)- NOTE 113 Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita — Mountain Song (Hubert Creekmore) 115 — Street Song (Hubert Creekmore) 118 Anonymous Romances — Mudarra and Rodrigo (James Y. Gibson) 119 — The Moorish King Who Lost Alhama (Lord Byron) 121 — Montesinos and Durandarte (Thomas Rodd) 123 — Count Arnaldos (Richard Beaumont) 124 Anonymous — Two Songs (Richard Beaumont) 125 — Four Songs (Seth G. Thornton) 126 Marqués de Santillana — Villancico For His Three Daughters (Richard Beaumont) 128 Jorge Manrique — Coplas on the Death of His Father (H. W. Longfellow) 129 ITALIAN — NOTE 145 Jacopo da Lentino — Canzonetta (D. G. Rossetti) 147 Jacopone da Todi — Dialogue of the Body with the Soul (Hubert Creekmore) 149 Guido Guinicelli — Canzone of the Gentle Heart (D. G. Rossetti) 151 Rustico di Filippo — Sonnet (D. G. Rossetti) 153 Guido Cavalcanti — Sonnet (Ezra Pound) 154 — To Dante (Percy Bysshe Shelley) 154 — Ballata (Hubert Creekmore) 155 Cecco Angiolieri — Sonnet (D. G. Rossetti) 156 Dante Alighieri — Canzone (D. G. Rossetti) 157 — Sonnet (D. G. Rossetti) 159 — To Guido Cavalcanti (Percy Bysshe Shelley) 160 — Canzone (D. G. Rossetti) 160 — The Banquet: Dissertation 2, Canzone 1 (Howard Nemerov) 163 — All Ye That Pass (D. G. Rossetti) 165 — Sonnet to the Lady Pietra (D. G. Rossetti) 166 Cino da Pistoia — Desperate (L. R. Lind) 166 Folgore da San Geminiano — March (D. G. Rossetti) 167 — May (D. G. Rossetti) 167 Francesco Petrarch — Against the Court of Rome (Sir Thomas Wyatt) 168 — Canzone (Morris Bishop) 169 — Complaint of a Lover Rebuked (Earl of Surrey) 172 — The Nightingale (Thomas LeMesurier) 172 Giovanni Boccaccio — Apology For Love (John Dryden) 172 Sonnet (T. G. Bergin) 174 WELSH - NOTE 175 Aneirin — Of Manly Disposition (D. S. Evans) 177 — The Lost Legion (D. S. Evans) 178 Taliesin — Dialogue Between Poet and Patron (D. S. Evans) 179 Anonymous — For Little Dinogad (H. Idris Bell) 180 Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd — A Love Poem (H. Idris Bell) 181 Gruffudd ab yr Ynad Coch — The Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (Gwyn Williams) 182 Dafydd ap Gwilym — To the Nun (H. Idris Bell) 185 — A Snowy Day (H. Idris Bell) 186 — The Seagull (David Bell) 188 — He Desires Her Husband’s Death (David Bell) 189 Lewis Glyn Cothi — On the Death of His Son (Gwyn Williams) 190 IRISH - NOTE 193 Anonymous — In Praise of Aed (Robin Flower) 195 — Four Short Poems (Owen Masters) 196 — Summer is Gone (Sean O’Faolain) 197 — Pangur Ban (Robin Flower) 198 — Fand Yields Cuchulain to Emer (Sean O’Faolain) 199 — May (Frank O’Connor) 200 — Man and Bird and God (Owen Masters) 201 — A Storm at Sea (Robin Flower) 202 — Good Old Finn (Owen Masters) 204 — Crazy Sweeney’s Song of the Woods (Owen Masters) 204 Donnachadh mor O’Dala — At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory (Sean O’Faolain) 209 OLD NORSE — NOTE 211 Anonymous — The Beginning and the End (Henry Adams Bellows) 212 Cormac Ogmundarson — Three Songs to Steingerd (W. G. Collingwood and Jon Stefansson) 219 Eyvindr Finsson — Death Song of Haakon the Good (O. L. Oliver) 220 DANISH — NOTE 223 Anonymous Ballads — The Elected Knight (H. W. Longfellow) 224 The Avenging Daughters (E. M. Smith-Dampier) 226 — The Maiden Hind (E. M. Smith-Dampier) 227 — Aager and Eliza (Anonymous Translator) 229 DUTCH — NOTE 233 Hadewijch — The Eighteenth Song (A. J. Barnouw) 234 — The Nineteenth Song (A. J. Barnouw) 235 GERMAN — NOTE 239 Anonymous — Reward of Service (F. C. Nicholson) 240 Dietmar von Aist — The Linden Tree (Edgar Taylor) 241 — Dawn Song (O. L. Oliver) 242 The Knight of Kürenberg — The Falcon (Margarete Münsterberg) 243 — Star (Margaret R. Richey) 243 Friedrich von Hausen — Civil War (F. C. Nicholson) 244 Hartmann von Aue — The Scales of Love (Jethro Bithell) 245 Heinrich von Morungen — Two Remember Dawn (Margaret R. Richey) 246 — Song (Edgar Taylor) 248 — Dream and Image (Jethro Bithell) 249 Reinmar von Hagenau — Deduction (Margaret R. Richey) 250 — A Meadow and My Lady (F. C. Nicholson) 250 Wolfram von Eschenbach — Hope for Miracles (Jethro Bithell) 252 Walther von der Vogelweide — Blessed Be the Hour (Margarete Münsterberg) 253 — The Oracle (Margarete Münsterberg) 254 — For One of Low Degree (Margaret R. Richey) 255 — Under the Linden (O. L. Oliver) 256 Reinmar von Sweter — Fortitude (Jethro Bithell) 257 Neidhart von Reuenthal — On the Mountain (Jethro Bithell) 258 Anonymous — Westphalian Song (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) 258 ANGLO-SAXON AND MIDDLE ENGLISH — NOTE 259 Anonymous — The Wife’s Lament (Charles W. Kennedy) 260 — The Seafarer (Ezra Pound) 262 — The Grave (Charles W. Kennedy) 265 — Summer 266 Robert Mannyng of Brunne—Woman’s Love 267 Anonymous — Spring Song 267 — Song of Ploughing 269 — Adam Lay Bound 270 — The Lytyll Prety Nyghtyngale 271 Geoffrey Chaucer — Ballade: Hyde, Absalon 272 — Rondel: Now Welcome, Somer 273 — The Complaint Unto Pity 274 The Bill of Complaint 276 Anonymous — Song 278