The Beginnings of Poetry

by Francis Barton Gummere

er stîget ûf mit grôzer kraft,

ih sih in grâwen ...

den tac ...

[427]. This may well go back to the summer songs, May-day songs, chorals, and so on, of festal crowds; so Bielschowsky, Geschichte der deutschen Dorfpoesie, Berlin, 1891, p. 13, concludes for the songs of Neidhart. So, too, with songs on the conflict of summer and winter. Latin poets of the Middle Ages led the way in regular description of nature. See Wilmanns, Walther, p. 409. For the general case, Burckhardt, Cultur d. Renaissance, II. 15; Uhland, Klein. Schrift., III. 388, 469.

[428]. Færøiske Qvaeder, p. 74.

[429]. Child, Ballads, I. 170.

[430]. Refrain or burden, not printed with the other stanzas, but sung throughout.

[431]. Maid.

[432]. Of = by.

[433]. Deprived, parted.