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Secular or Eclectic : Troubadour
11th Century

About Guilhem IX of Poitou

Timeline (1071 - 1126)

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English version by
J. Lindsay

Original Language
Provencal
Joyous in love, I make my aim

Themes
  Bliss
  Fire
  Freedom
  Garden
  Lover and Beloved

 

Joyous in love, I make my aim
forever deeper in Joy to be.
The perfect Joy's the goal for me:
so the most perfect lady I claim.
I've caught her eyes. All must exclaim:
the loveliest heard or seen is she.

You know I'd never base my fame
on brags. If ever we're to see
a flowering Joy, this Joy, burst free,
should bear such fruit no man can name,
lifting among the others a flame
that brightens in obscurity.

 

 

 

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