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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG OF BREATH, by PEIRE VIDAL
First Line: Breathing do I draw that air to me
Last Line: Who turns the veriest sullen unto laughter.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love
First Line: Breathing do I draw that air to me
Last Line: Who turns the veriest sullen unto laughter.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love
BREATHING do I draw that air to me
Which I feel coming from Provença,
All that is thence so pleasureth me
That whenever I heard good speech of it
I listen a-laughing and straightway
Demand for each word an hundred more,
So fair to me is the hearing.
No man hath known such sweet repair
'Twixt Rhone's swift stream and Vensa,
From the shut sea to Durensa,
Nor any place with joys so rare
As among the French folk where
I left my heart a-laughing in her care,
Who turns the veriest sullen unto laughter.
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