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Subject: TROUBADOURS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEHOLD THE MEADS, by GUILLAUME DE POITIERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the meads are green again
Last Line: And silken robes and miniver!
Alternate Author Name(s): William Ix, Count Of Poitiers; Guilhem Ix Of Poitiers
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


DAME GUILLELMA, SEVERAL KNIGHTS TRAVELLING BY DARK, by LANFRANCS CIGALA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But, by any means available, I challenge you to conquer me
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


ELIAS CAIREL, I WANT TO KNOW, by ISABELLA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: So tell me, and don't be afraid, %that I may judge her worth and her intelligence
Subject(s): Troubadours; Unfaithfulness


FINE JOY BRINGS ME GREAT HAPPINESS, by DIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Beware, or grief will bring you low
Subject(s): Troubadours


FRIEND LANFRANCS, AS I SEE IT HE DID BEST, by GUILLELMA DE ROSERS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That with a woman's subtlety %I'll ward off the most covetous design
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


FRIEND, BECAUSE OF YOU I'M FILLED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Friend, I'd happily believe you %if you'd be forever faithful
Subject(s): Fidelity; Troubadours


FRIEND, IF YOU HAD SHOWN CONSIDERATION, by CASTELLOZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I'll be in my grave, and you'll be cruelly blamed
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


GOD KNOWS I SHOULD HAVE HAD MY FILL OF SONG, by CASTELLOZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For I live on kindness, %faith and constant courage
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Troubadours


GOOD LADY, SO DEEPLY DO I CARE FOR YOU, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And it won't change, though his love remain unpaid
Subject(s): Troubadours


GUI D'USESEL, BECAUSE OF YOU I'M QUITE DISTRAUGHT, by MARIA DE VENTADORN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Because the lover doesn't owe her anything that doesn't bear love's name
Subject(s): Love; Troubadours


I THRIVE ON YOUTH AND JOY, by DIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Please, grant me your protection
Subject(s): Love; Troubadours


I'D BE ENCOURAGED IF I LIKED WHAT I COMPOSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Alas! I can't go on with this for long
Subject(s): Troubadours


I'D LIKE TO BE A LOMBARD FOR LOMBARDA, by BARNAT ARNAUT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Don't let that good-for-nothing %break the love that binds us
Subject(s): Love; Troubadours


I'M GLAD I WASN'T CALLED BERNARDA FOR BERNART, by LOMBARDA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For it's house and hearth %are hid, and you won't tell
Subject(s): Troubadours


I'VE LATELY BEEN IN GREAT DISTRESS, by DIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That you swear to do my bidding
Subject(s): Troubadours


IF I SEEK YOUR ADVICE, PRETTY FRIEND ALAMANDA, by ALAMANDA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I'll gladly do so, but when she's given you her love again, %don't take back yours
Subject(s): Love; Troubadours


IF YOU KNEW MY MIND, SWEET HANDSOME FRIEND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And it grieves me that we've been so long apart
Subject(s): Absence; Troubadours


LADY ALASI AND LADY ISELDA, by CARENZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That when I leave he place me by your side
Subject(s): Marriage; Troubadours


LADY ALMUCS, WITH YOUR PERMISSION, by ISEUT DE CAPIO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That he'll refrain from doing further injury
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Troubadours


LADY CARENZA OF THE LOVELY, GRACIOUS BODY, by ALAIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And it's too anguishing to be a wife
Subject(s): Marriage; Troubadours


LADY ISEUT, IF HE SHOWED SOME CONTRITION, by ALMUCS DE CASTELNAU    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Still, if you can get him to repent his perfidy %you'll have no trouble in converting me
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Troubadours


LADY MARIA, IN YOUR MERIT IN DISTINCTION, by BIEIRIS DE ROMANS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For in you are gaiety and happiness, %and all good things one could ask of a woman
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Troubadours


LADY, SUCH IS LOVE'S NATURE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Lady, you shall have me faithful: %henceforth I'll think exclusively of you
Subject(s): Fidelity; Troubadours


LAUZENGIERS AND THE DECEITFUL SPIES, by CLARA D'ANDUZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I weep and I sigh; and I can't make music %with the strophes that my heart will not supply
Subject(s): Courtship; Troubadours


MADRIGAL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The troubadours sing merrily
Last Line: Will dolly, in her gingham gown!
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Troubadours; Male-female Relations; Minnesingers


MAIDEN, I HAVE EVERY REASON TO BE CRUEL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Let you be the guardian between us two %and stay beside whichever goes astray
Subject(s): Troubadours


NO MARVEL IS IT, by BERNART DE VENTADORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No marvel it is if I sing
Last Line: "but fear is his undoing"
Alternate Author Name(s): Bernard De Ventadour
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


NOW WE ARE COME TO THE COLD TIME, by AZALAI DE PORCAIRAGES    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Whose guides are youth and joy
Subject(s): Troubadours


OF THINGS I'D RATHER KEEP IN SILENCE I MUST SING, by DIA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: But above all, messenger, make him comprehend %that too much pride has undone many men
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Troubadours


REPLY TO GARSENDA DE FORCALQUIER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good lady, it's your rank that makes me shudder
Last Line: For noble deeds, as much as words, deserve your grace
Subject(s): Love; Troubadours


REPLY TO ISABELLA, by ELIAS CAIREL    Poem Source                    
First Line: My lady isabella, in those days
Last Line: Therefore, I don't dare speak of my desire
Subject(s): Troubadours


RESPONSE TO DOMNA H., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lady, the one who disobeyed %his lady was a fool
Last Line: Has sent lady cupidity away
Subject(s): Troubadours


ROSIN, TELL ME FROM THE HEART, by DOMNA H.    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A crime, and let my lady %agnesina say what she may
Subject(s): Troubadours


RUDEL TO THE LADY OF TRIPOLI, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a mount, the gracious sun perceives
Last Line: Pilgrim dear!
Subject(s): Infatuation; Troubadours; Minnesingers


SORDELLO: BOOK 1, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will, may hear sordello's story told
Last Line: The veritable business of mankind.
Subject(s): Italy; Troubadours; Italians; Minnesingers


SORDELLO: BOOK 2, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods were long austere with snow: at last
Last Line: And nodded that the bull-bait might begin.
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


SORDELLO: BOOK 3, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the font took them: let our laurels lie!
Last Line: And you shall hear sordello's story told.
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


SORDELLO: BOOK 4, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Meantime ferrara lay in rueful case
Last Line: Finish the dream grown from the archer's tale.
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


SORDELLO: BOOK 5, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it the same sordello in the dusk
Last Line: No longer: these in compass, forward fate!
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


SORDELLO: BOOK 6, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thought of eglamor's least like a thought
Last Line: Who would has heard sordello's story told.
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


SWEET HANDSOME FRIEND, I CAN TELL YOU TRULY, by TIBORS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That I felt joy until you had come back; %nor -
Subject(s): Desire; Troubadours


THE DEATH OF GEOFFREY RUDEL, THE TROUBADOUR, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her wandering pilgrims, from the syrian shore
Last Line: Bore his chaste spirit to the realms above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Troubadours; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Minnesingers


THE MINNESINGERS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the minstrels' strife engaging
Last Line: From fair lips the praise most blest.
Subject(s): Minstrels; Praise; Troubadours; Minnesingers


THE ROLL OF THE ROSES, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We called the roll of the roses
Last Line: With a troubadour tolling a bell.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Troubadours; Minnesingers


THE TROUBADOUR'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a gallant troubadour
Last Line: Unstained by woman's tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Troubadours; Minnesingers


YOU STAYED A LONG TIME, FRIEND, by CASTELLOZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You'll find a fine reception
Subject(s): Love; Troubadours


YOU'RE SO WELL SUITED AS A LOVER, by GARSENDA DE FORCALQUIER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: For a lady doesn't dare uncover %her true will, lest those around her think her base
Subject(s): Love; Troubadours