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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALLAD, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me where, in what country, where Last Line: But where are snows of a bygone year? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De | |||
Tell me where, in what country, where Is bounteous Flora, Roman belle? Archipiade? Thaïs? a pair Cousins in beauty, stories tell. Does Echo's musical answer swell #NAME? Her charm more binding than mortal spell #NAME? Where's Héloise? wise as debonaire, Whom, unstrung and made monk as well, Abélard loved so; poor Pierre, Love's reward was a eunuch's cell. Where is that dawdling dowsabel, Queen who had bagged and flung, we fear, Buridan into the Seine p·le-m·le? #NAME? Where is Queen Lily White who'd snare Men with her siren song? Or Swell-Foot Bertha? or Beatrice? quick to flare, Maine's Erambour? Or that nonpareil, Good Joanne of Arc, her fiery knell Rung at Rouen, as the English jeer? Where now, Virgin and Queen, pray tell? #NAME? Prince, though for weeks now you compel Reply, or the whole year long, you'll hear One and the same refrain, note well: #NAME? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLAD MADE AT THE REQUEST OF HIS MOTHER .. PRAY TO OUR LADY by FRANCOIS VILLON BALLAD OF THE GIBBET by FRANCOIS VILLON BALLAD OF THE LORDS OF OLD TIME by FRANCOIS VILLON BALLADE AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF FRANCE by FRANCOIS VILLON BALLADE MADE FOR HIS MOTHER THAT SHE MIGHTE PRAYE by FRANCOIS VILLON BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES by FRANCOIS VILLON BALLADE OF WENCHES by FRANCOIS VILLON EPISTLE IN FORM OF A BALLAD TO HIS FRIENDS by FRANCOIS VILLON EPITAPH IN BALLADE FORM by FRANCOIS VILLON FRAGMENT ON DEATH by FRANCOIS VILLON FROM THE GREATER TESTAMENT (XXII, XXIII, AND XXVI) by FRANCOIS VILLON |
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