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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
    Here is another version of this poem in Norman-French Anglo-Saxon form!

    Les nouns de un levre en Englais

    The mon that the hare i-met
    Ne shal him nevere be the bet,
    Bot if he lei down on londe
    That he bereth in his honde.
    (Be hit staf, be hit bouwe),
    And blesce him with his helbowe.
    And mid wel goed devosioun
    He shall saien on oreisoun
    In the worshipe of the hare
    Thenne mai he wel fare.

    "The hare, the scotart,
    The bigge, the bouchart,
    The scotewine, the skikart,
    The turpin, the tirart,
    The wei-betere, the ballart,
    The go-bi-dich, the soillart,
    The wimount, the babbart,
    The stele-awai, the momelart,
    The evil-i-met, the babbart,
    The scot, the deubert,
    The gras-bitere, the goibert,
    The late-at-hom, the swikebert,
    The frendlese, the wodecat,
    The brodlokere, the bromcat,
    The purblinde, the fursecat,
    The louting, the westlokere,
    The waldenlie, the sid-lokere,
    And eke the roulekere;
    The stobhert, the long-here,
    The strau-der, the lekere,
    The wilde der, the lepere,
    The shorte der, the lorkere,
    The wint-swift, the sculkere,
    The hare serd, the heg-roukere,
    The deudinge, the deu-hoppere,
    The sittere, the gras-hoppere,
    The fitelfot, the foldsittere,
    The cawel-hert, the wortcroppere,
    The go-bi-ground, the sitte-stille,
    The pintail, toure-tohulle;
    The cove-arise,
    The make-agrise,
    The wite-wombe,
    The go-mit-lombe,
    The choumbe, the chaulart,
    The chiche, the couart,
    The make-fare, the breke-forwart,
    The fnattart, the pollart,
    (His hei nome is srewart);
    The hert with the letherene hornes,
    The der that woneth in the cornes,
    The der that alle men scornes,
    The der that no-mon ne-dar nemmen."
    When thou havest al this i-said,
    Thenne is the hare migtt alaid.
    Thenne migtt thou wenden forth,
    Est and west, and south and north,
    Wedrewardes so mon wile,
    The man that con ani skile.
    Have nou godne dai, sire hare!
    God the lete so wel fare,
    That thou come to me ded,
    Other in cive, other in bred! Amen!
    I love it when you show off X Runner..it makes me smile which is much needed tonight

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
    Here is another version of this poem in Norman-French Anglo-Saxon form!

    Les nouns de un levre en Englais

    The mon that the hare i-met
    Ne shal him nevere be the bet,
    Bot if he lei down on londe
    That he bereth in his honde.
    (Be hit staf, be hit bouwe),
    And blesce him with his helbowe.
    And mid wel goed devosioun
    He shall saien on oreisoun
    In the worshipe of the hare
    Thenne mai he wel fare.

    "The hare, the scotart,
    The bigge, the bouchart,
    The scotewine, the skikart,
    The turpin, the tirart,
    The wei-betere, the ballart,
    The go-bi-dich, the soillart,
    The wimount, the babbart,
    The stele-awai, the momelart,
    The evil-i-met, the babbart,
    The scot, the deubert,
    The gras-bitere, the goibert,
    The late-at-hom, the swikebert,
    The frendlese, the wodecat,
    The brodlokere, the bromcat,
    The purblinde, the fursecat,
    The louting, the westlokere,
    The waldenlie, the sid-lokere,
    And eke the roulekere;
    The stobhert, the long-here,
    The strau-der, the lekere,
    The wilde der, the lepere,
    The shorte der, the lorkere,
    The wint-swift, the sculkere,
    The hare serd, the heg-roukere,
    The deudinge, the deu-hoppere,
    The sittere, the gras-hoppere,
    The fitelfot, the foldsittere,
    The cawel-hert, the wortcroppere,
    The go-bi-ground, the sitte-stille,
    The pintail, toure-tohulle;
    The cove-arise,
    The make-agrise,
    The wite-wombe,
    The go-mit-lombe,
    The choumbe, the chaulart,
    The chiche, the couart,
    The make-fare, the breke-forwart,
    The fnattart, the pollart,
    (His hei nome is srewart);
    The hert with the letherene hornes,
    The der that woneth in the cornes,
    The der that alle men scornes,
    The der that no-mon ne-dar nemmen."
    When thou havest al this i-said,
    Thenne is the hare migtt alaid.
    Thenne migtt thou wenden forth,
    Est and west, and south and north,
    Wedrewardes so mon wile,
    The man that con ani skile.
    Have nou godne dai, sire hare!
    God the lete so wel fare,
    That thou come to me ded,
    Other in cive, other in bred! Amen!
    I'm so glad that you posted that as I was considering typing it all out. I have a copy of it in a book called The Leaping Hare. A very interesting read.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    I'm so glad that you posted that as I was considering typing it all out. I have a copy of it in a book called The Leaping Hare. A very interesting read.
    I am trying to find the etymology of the scotart. A minor problem of going through all 15 volumes of the Middle English Dictionary! Thank goodness we have the internet now

    The orginal version of this poem was written in the reign of Edward I., and is
    preserved in MS. Digby 86, Bodleian Library, 4to. vellum, fol. 168.
    Last edited by XRunner; 30-11-2009 at 01:23 AM.

  4. #1904

    Re: Today's poet

    lightness
    meg bateman

    It was your lightness that drew me,
    the lightness of your talk and your laughter,
    the lightness of your cheek in my hands,
    your sweet gentle modest lightness;
    and it is the lightness of your kiss
    that is starving my mouth,
    and the lightness of your embrace
    that will let me go adrift.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
    I am trying to find the etymology of the scotart. A minor problem of going through all 15 volumes of the Middle English Dictionary! Thank goodness we have the internet now

    The orginal version of this poem was written in the reign of Edward I., and is
    preserved in MS. Digby 86, Bodleian Library, 4to. vellum, fol. 168.
    That's good...I had actually been trying to get a definition of scotart by putting 'what is a scotart' into google and got lots of paintings by scottish artists. Your research skills are infinitely superior.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    lightness
    meg bateman

    It was your lightness that drew me,
    the lightness of your talk and your laughter,
    the lightness of your cheek in my hands,
    your sweet gentle modest lightness;
    and it is the lightness of your kiss
    that is starving my mouth,
    and the lightness of your embrace
    that will let me go adrift.
    Gosh Freckle...I love this. Uh-oh...think I'm about to have to dig out all my love poetry and have a wallow.

  7. #1907

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Gosh Freckle...I love this. Uh-oh...think I'm about to have to dig out all my love poetry and have a wallow.
    Go for it..it is sunday after all...classic night for love poetry/melancolia and the such like! (its another one from staying alive the anthology)....oh gawd, suppose i had better go soon...in denial about work tomorrow x

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    Re: Today's poet

    Touch

    My hands
    Open the curtains of your being
    Clothe you in a further nudity
    Uncover the bodies of your body
    My hands
    Invent another body for your body.

    Octavio Paz

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    Go for it..it is sunday after all...classic night for love poetry/melancolia and the such like! (its another one from staying alive the anthology)....oh gawd, suppose i had better go soon...in denial about work tomorrow x
    Me too...I was going to be so good and get an early night so I could get started early tomorrow but here I am and already I see the day shifting and another evening of work tomorrow. Oh well...

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Touch

    My hands
    Open the curtains of your being
    Clothe you in a further nudity
    Uncover the bodies of your body
    My hands
    Invent another body for your body.

    Octavio Paz
    this is music to my ears....i love it...i was feeling the usual nameless dread i get with sunday evenings...nowt like a bit of love/raunch to lighten the mood!!!! this has cheered me, thanks Hes

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