Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TANDARADEI, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lindens on the heather Last Line: Trust him not to breathe a word. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Walther Von Der Vogelweide (1170-1230) | ||||||||
UNDER the lindens on the heather, There was our double resting-place, Side by side and close together Garnered blossoms, crushed, and grass Nigh a shaw in such a vale: Tandaradei, Sweetly sang the nightingale. I came a-walking through the grasses; Lo! my dear was come before. Ah! what befell thenlisten, listen, lasses Makes me glad for evermore. Kisses?thousands in good sooth: Tandaradei, See how red they've left my mouth. There had he made readyfeatly, fairly All of flow'ring herbs a yielding bed, And that place in secret still smiles rarely. If by chance your foot that path should tread, You might see the roses pressed, Tandaradei, Where e'enow my head did rest. How he lay beside me, did a soul discover (Now may God forfend such shame from me): Not a soul shall know it save my lover; Not a soul could see save I and he, And a certain small brown bird: Tandaradei, Trust him not to breathe a word. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE A DREAM OF LOVE, SELECTION by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE AWAKE! by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE LONGING FOR SPRING by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE THE ORACLE by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE TO SAMUEL COLERIDGE UPON HEARING HIS 'SOME I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS..' by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE LOST SHEEP by SARAH PRATT MCCLAIN GREENE THE WHITE CITY by CLAUDE MCKAY MISGIVINGS (1860) by HERMAN MELVILLE THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM by HENRY KIRKE WHITE |
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