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Medieval lyric : Middle English lyrics, ballads, and carols /

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Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional Britis...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hirsh, John C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
English, Middle (1100-1500)
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Subjects:
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Modernized versions.
Ballads, English > England > Texts.
Carols, English > England > Texts.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1 O Glorius God, redemer of mankynde
  • 2 Mirie it is while sumer i-last
  • 3 Now goth sonne vnder wod
  • 4 If man him bithocte
  • 5 Wen the turuf is thi tuur
  • 6 As I went in a mery mornyng
  • 7 Thegh thou habbe casteles and toures
  • 8 Svmer is i-cumen in
  • 9 Adam lay i-bowndyn
  • 10 My gostly fadir, Y me confesse
  • 11 Lett no man cum into this hall
  • 12 Witte bath wondir that resoun ne telle kan
  • 13 I syng of a mayden
  • 14 Of on that is so fayr and brigt
  • 15 Haill, Quene of Hevin and Steren of Blis
  • 16 I saw a fayr mayden
  • 17 In the vaile of restles mynd
  • 18 Alas, alas, and alas, why
  • 19 I wolde witen of sum wys wiht
  • 20 Maiden in the mor lay
  • 21 Foweles in the frith
  • 22 Ich am of Irlaunde
  • 23 I seche a youthe that eldyth noght
  • 24 He bare hym vp, he bare hym down
  • 25 A child is boren amonges man
  • 26 Al other loue is lych the mone
  • ^
  • Note continued: 50 As the holly grouth grene
  • A1 Truth
  • A2 The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse
  • A3 To Rosamounde
  • A4 Lak of Stedfastnesse
  • A5 Embedded Lyric A
  • A6 Embedded Lyric B
  • A7 To Adam, My Scribe
  • B1 Alma Redemptoris Mater (Holy Moder, that here Cryst)
  • B2 Jesus our Ransom (Iesu our raunsoun)
  • Richard Rolle
  • B3 A Song of Love-Longing to Jesus (Ihesu, God sone, Lord of Mageste)
  • B4 A Prose Lyric: Spiritual Joy in Jesus (Gastly gladnes in Ihesu)
  • B5 Embedded Lyric A (Ihesu, be thou my ioy)
  • B6 Embedded Lyric B (A, Lord, kyng of myght)
  • B7 Embedded Lyric C (To loue the)
  • John Audelay
  • B8 Of the Love of God (I haue a loue is heuen kyng)
  • B9 Of Our King, Henry VI (A! Perles Pryns to the we pray)
  • C1 Where Y haue chosyn, stedefast woll Y be
  • C2 Whatso men seyn
  • C3 Continvaunce.