<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538017" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love In The Age Of Chivalry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FROM PEYRE VIDAL, THE TROUBADOUR.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The earth was sown with early flowers,<br>The heavens were blue and bright--<br>I met a youthful cavalier<br>As lovely as the light.<br>I knew him not--but in my heart<br>His graceful image lies,<br>And well I marked his open brow,<br>His sweet and tender eyes,<br>His ruddy lips that ever smiled,<br>His glittering teeth betwixt,<br>And flowing robe embroidered o'er,<br>With leaves and blossoms mixed.<br>He wore a chaplet of the rose;<br>His palfrey, white and sleek,<br>Was marked with many an ebon spot,<br>And many a purple streak;<br>Of jasper was his saddle-bow,<br>His housings sapphire stone,<br>And brightly in his stirrup glanced<br>The purple calcedon.<br>Fast rode the gallant cavalier,<br>As youthful horsemen ride;<br>'Peyre Vidal! know that I am Love,'<br>The blooming stranger cried;<br>'And this is Mercy by my side,<br>A dame of high degree;<br>This maid is Chastity,' he said,<br>'This squire is Loyalty.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cullen+Bryant">William Cullen Bryant</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=538017" data-title="Love In The Age Of Chivalry de William Cullen Bryant" data-description="FROM PEYRE VIDAL, THE TROUBADOUR. The earth was sown with early flowers, The heavens were blue and bright-- I met a youthful cavalier As lovely as the light. I knew him not--but in my heart His graceful image lies, And well I marked his open bro..."></div> </div> </div>

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