Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with Other Poems

Ballads, French; Folk songs, French; French poetry -- Translations into English

Transcribed from the 1872 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition by David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org





                            BALLADS AND LYRICS
                              OF OLD FRANCE:


                           _WITH OTHER POEMS_.

                                * * * * *

                                    BY

                                 A. LANG.

                                * * * * *

                                 LONDON:
                         LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
                                  1872.

                                * * * * *

                                    TO

                                 E. M. S.

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CONTENTS.



                  _TRANSLATIONS_.
                                                PAGE
List of Poets translated                           2
CHARLES D’ORLEANS:
       Spring                                      5
       Rondel                                      6
FRANÇOIS VILLON:
       Rondel                                      7
       Arbor Amoris                                8
       Ballad of the Gibbet                       11
DU BELLAY:
       Hymn to the Winds                          14
       A Vow to Heavenly Venus                    16
       To his Friend in Elysium                   17
       A Sonnet to Heavenly Beauty                18
REMY BELLEAU:
       April                                      19
RONSARD:
       Roses                                      24
       The Rose                                   25
       To the Moon                                27
       To his Young Mistress                      29
       Deadly Kisses                              30
       Of his Lady’s Old Age                      31
       On his Lady’s Waking                       32
       His Lady’s Death                           33
       His Lady’s Tomb                            34
JACQUES TAHUREAU:
       Shadows of his Lady                        35
       Moonlight                                  36
PASSERAT:
       Love in May                                37
VICTOR HUGO:
       The Grave and the Rose                     40
       The Genesis of Butterflies                 42
       More Strong than Time                      44
GÉRARD DE NERVAL:
       An Old Tune                                46
ALFRED DE MUSSET:
       Juana                                      48
HENRI MURGER:
       Spring in the Student’s Quarter            51
       Old Loves                                  53
       Musette                                    55
BALLADS:
       The Three Captains                         58
       The Bridge of Death                        63
       Le Père Sévère                             65
       The Milk White Doe                         68
       A Lady of High Degree                      72
       Lost for a Rose’s Sake                     75
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Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with Other Poems

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