<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350861" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When Nightingales Their Lulling Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When nightingales their lulling song<br>For me have breathed the whole night long,<br>Thus soothed, I sleep; - yet, when awake,<br>Again will joy my heart forsake,<br>Pensive in love, in sorrow pining <br>All other fellowship declining:<br>Not such was once my blest employ,<br>When all my heart, my song, was joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And none who knew that joy, but well<br>Could tell how bright, unspeakable,<br>How far above all common bliss,<br>Was then my heart's pure happiness;<br>How lightly on my fancy ranged,<br>Gay tale and pleasant jest exchanged,<br>Dreaming such joy must ever be<br>In love like that I bore for thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They that behold me little dream<br>How wide my spirit soars from them,<br>And, borne on fancy's pinion, roves<br>To seek the beauteous form it loves:<br>Know, that a faithful herald flies<br>To bear her image to my eyes,<br>My constant thought, for ever telling<br>How fair she is, all else excelling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know not when we meet again,<br>For grief hath rent my heart in twain:<br>For thee the royal court I fled,--<br>But guard me from the ills I dread,<br>And quick I'll join the bright array<br>Of courteous knights and ladies gay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ugonet, faithful messenger!<br>This to the Norman queen go bear,<br>And sing it softly to her ear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bernard+de+Ventadorn">Bernard de Ventadorn</a><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=350861" data-title="When Nightingales Their Lulling Song de Bernard de Ventadorn" data-description="When nightingales their lulling song For me have breathed the whole night long, Thus soothed, I sleep; - yet, when awake, Again will joy my heart forsake, Pensive in love, in sorrow pining All other fellowship declining: Not such was once my bles..."></div> </div> </div>

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