Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
... Ceux dont la Fantaisie
Sera religieuse et dévote envers Dieu
Tousjours achèveront quelque grant Poésie,
Et dessus leur renom la Parque n'aura lieu.
LONDON DUCKWORTH AND CO. 3, HENRIETTA STREET, COVE NT GARDEN, W.C.
1904
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
Part of this book originally appeared
in The Pilot, and is here reprinted
by kind permission of the Editor.
MY DEAR ECCLES,
Hilaire Belloc
AVRIL
BEING
H. BELLOC
CONTENTS
CHARLES OF ORLEANS.
THE COMPLAINT.
THE TWO ROUNDELS OF SPRING.
HIS LOVE AT MORNING.
THE FAREWELL.
VILLON.
THE DEAD LADIES.
AN EXCERPT FROM THE GRANT TESTAMENT.
THE BALLADE OF OUR LADY.
THE DEAD LORDS.
THE DIRGE.
CLEMENT MAROT.
OF COURTING LONG AGO.
NOËL.
TWO EPIGRAMS.
TO HIS LADY IN SICKNESS.
THE VINEYARD SONG.
RONSARD.
DIALOGUE WITH THE NINE SISTERS.
THE EPITAPH ON RABELAIS.
"MIGNONNE ALLONS VOIR SI LA ROSE."
THE "SONNETS FOR HÉLÈNE"
JOACHIM DU BELLAY.
EXTRACTS FROM THE "ANTIQUITEZ DE ROME."
THE SONNET OF EXILE.
THE SONNET "HEUREUX QUI COMME ULYSSE."
THE WINNOWER'S HYMN TO THE WINDS.
THE FUNERAL ODES OF THE DOG AND THE CAT.
MALHERBE.
EXTRACTS.
EXTRACTS FROM THE "CONSOLATION OF DU PERRIER."
NOTES.