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.

A. LANG.

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1872.

E. M. S.

CONTENTS.

TRANSLATIONS.
		PAGE
List of Poets translated		[2]
CharlesD’Orleans:
	Spring	[5]
	Rondel	[6]
FrançoisVillon:
	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]
JacquesTahureau:
	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 deNerval:
	An Old Tune	[46]
Alfred deMusset:
	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]
	LePère Sévère	[65]
	The Milk White Doe	[68]
	A Lady of High Degree	[72]
	Lost for a Rose’s Sake	[75]
Ballads of ModernGreece:
	The Brigand’s Grave	[77]
	The Sudden Bridal	[79]
Greek FolkSongs:
	Iannoula	[85]
	The Tell-Tales	[87]
AVE.
Twilight on Tweed		[91]
One Flower		[93]
Metempsychosis		[94]
Lost in Hades		[95]
A Star in the Night		[96]
A Sunset on Yarrow		[97]
HESPEROTHEN.
The Seekers for Phæacia		[101]
A Song of Phæacia		[104]
The Departure from Phæacia		[107]
A Ballad of Departure		[110]
They hear the Sirens for the Second Time		[111]
Circe’s Isle revisited		[114]
The Limit of Lands		[116]
VERSES ONPICTURES.
Colinette		[121]
A Sunset of Watteau		[124]
A Nativity of Sandro Botticelli		[127]
SONGS ANDSONNETS.
Two Homes		[131]
Summer’s Ending		[133]
Nightingale Weather		[134]
Love and Wisdom		[136]
Good-bye		[138]
An Old Prayer		[140]
Love’s Miracle		[141]
Dreams		[142]
Fairy Land		[143]
Two Sonnets of the Sirens		[146]
À la Belle Hélène		[148]
Sylvie et Aurélie		[150]
A Lost Path		[152]
The Shade of Helen		[154]
SONNETS TOPOETS.
Jacques Tahureau		[159]
François Villon		[160]
Pierre Ronsard		[161]
Gérard de Nerval		[162]
The Death of Mirandola		[163]

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