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Title: Personae
Language: English
OF
LONDON
MCMIX
MARY MOORE
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CONTENTS
PERSONAE
As drops that dream and gleam and falling catch the sun,
Evan'scent mirrors every opal one
Of such his splendour as their compass is,
So, bold My Songs, seek ye such death as this.
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La Fraisne[1]
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Cino
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Na Audiart
NOTE: Any one who has read anything of the troubadours knows well
the tale of Bertran of Born and My Lady Maent of Montaignac, and
knows also the song he made when she would none of him, the song
wherein he, seeking to find or make her equal, begs of each
preeminent lady of Langue d'Oc some trait or some fair semblance:
thus of Cembelins her "esgart amoros" to wit, her love-lit glance, of
Aelis her speech free-running, of the Vicomptess of Chales her throat
and her two hands, at Roacoart of Anhes her hair golden as Iseult's;
and even in this fashion of Lady Audiart "although she would that ill
come unto him" he sought and praised the lineaments of the torse.
And all this to make "Una dompna soiseubuda" a borrowed lady or as
the Italians translated it "Una donna ideale."
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Audiart, Audiart,
Where thy bodice laces start
As ivy fingers clutching through
Its crevices,
Audiart, Audiart,
Stately, tall and lovely tender
Who shall render
Audiart, Audiart
Praises meet unto thy fashion?
Here a word kiss!
Pass I on
Unto Lady "Miels-de-Ben,"
Having praised thy girdle's scope
How the stays ply back from it;
I breathe no hope
That thou shouldst....
Nay no whit
Bespeak thyself for anything.
Just a word in thy praise, girl,
Just for the swirl
Thy satins make upon the stair,
'Cause never a flaw was there
Where thy torse and limbs are met:
Though thou hate me, read it set
In rose and gold.[2]
Or when the minstrel, tale half told,
Shall burst to lilting at the phrase
"Audiart, Audiart"....
Bertrans, master of his lays,
Bertrans of Aultaforte thy praise
Sets forth, and though thou hate me well,
Yea though thou wish me ill
Audiart, Audiart.
Thy loveliness is here writ till,
Audiart,
Oh, till thou come again. [3]
And being bent and wrinkled, in a form
That hath no perfect limning, when the warm
Youth dew is cold
Upon thy hands, and thy old soul
Scorning a new, wry'd casement
Churlish at seemed misplacement
Finds the earth as bitter
As now seems it sweet,
Being so young and fair
As then only in dreams,
Being then young and wry'd,
Broken of ancient pride,
Thou shalt then soften,
Knowing I know not how
Thou wert once she
Audiart, Audiart
For whose fairness one forgave
Audiart, Audiart
Que be-m vols mal.
I.e. in illumed manuscript.
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Reincarnate.
A Villonaud
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Mesmerism
Fifine Answers
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In Tempore Senectutis
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Your songs?
Oh! The little mothers
Will sing them in the twilight,
And when the night
Shrinketh the kiss of the dawn
That loves and kills,
What time the swallow fills
Her note, the little rabbit folk
That some call children,
Such as are up and wide
Will laugh your verses to each other,
Pulling on their shoes for the day's business,
Serious child business that the world
Laughs at, and grows stale;
Such is the tale
—Part of it—of thy song-life
Mine?
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Scriptor Ignotus
Ferrara 1715
To K.R.H.
"When I see thee as some poor song-bird
Battering its wings, against this cage we
Today,
Then would I speak comfort unto thee,
From out the heights I dwell in, when
That great sense of power is upon me
And I see my greater soul-self bending
Sibylwise with that great forty year epic
That you know of, yet unwrit
But as some child's toy 'tween my fingers,
And see the sculptors of new ages carve me thus,
And model with the music of my couplets in their hearts:
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Praise of Ysolt
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ENVOI
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Camaraderie
Masks
Tally-O
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For E. Mc C
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ENVOI
A.D. 751
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Xenia
And
Unto thine eyes my heart
Sendeth old dreams of the spring-time,
Yea of wood-ways my rime
Found thee and flowers in and of all streams
That sang low burthen, and of roses,
That lost their dew-bowed petals for the dreams
We scattered o'er them passing by.
Occidit
Search
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II
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III
SONG.
Oimè, Oimè!
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In Durance
But for all that, I am home sick after mine own kind
And would meet kindred e'en as I am,
Flesh-shrouded bearing the secret.
"All they that with strange sadness"
Have the earth in mock'ry, and are kind to all,
My fellows, aye I know the glory
Of th' unbounded ones, but ye, that hide
As I hide most the while
And burst forth to the windows only whiles or whiles
For love, or hope, or beauty or for power,
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A Vision of Italy
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Alba Belingalis
Ref
Ref
Ref.
From Syria
The song of Peire Bremon "Lo Tort" that he made for his Lady in Provença: he being in
Syria a crusader.
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ENVOI
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D'AUBIGNE TO DIANE
Marvoil
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Revolt
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Piccadilly
NOTES
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