<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=123782" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad of Dead Ladies (Ballade des dames du temps jadis)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell me now in what hidden way is <br>Lady Flora the lovely Roman? <br>Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, <br>Neither of them the fairer woman? <br>Where is Echo, beheld of no man, <br>Only heard on river and mere-- <br>She whose beauty was more than human?-- <br>But where are the snows of yester-year? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where's Heloise, the learned nun, <br>For whose sake Abeillard, I ween, <br>Lost manhood and put priesthood on? <br>(From Love he won such dule and teen!) <br>And where, I pray you, is the Queen <br>Who willed that Buridan should steer <br>Sewed in a sack's mouth down the Seine?-- <br>But where are the snows of yester-year? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">White Queen Blanche, like a queen of lilies, <br>With a voice like any mermaiden-- <br>Bertha Broadfoot, Beatrice, Alice, <br>And Ermengarde the lady of Maine-- <br>And that good Joan whom Englishmen <br>At Rouen doomed and burned her there-- <br>Mother of God, where are they then?-- <br>But where are the snows of yester-year? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, never ask this week, fair lord, <br>Where they are gone, nor yet this year, <br>Save with thus much for an overword-- <br>But where are the snows of yester-year?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Fran%C3%A7ois+Villon">François Villon</a> from <i>The Testament</i>, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=123782" data-title="The Ballad of Dead Ladies (Ballade des dames du temps jadis) de François Villon" data-description="Tell me now in what hidden way is /Lady Flora the lovely Roman? /Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, /Neither of them the fairer woman? /Where is Echo, beheld of no man, /Only heard on river and mere-- /She whose beauty was more than human?-- ..."></div> </div> </div>

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