"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew, Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate; No beggar thou that thou for al…"

"In the ancient land of vintage and dance and sun-burnt mirth, there resounded during the Middle Ages a sweet chorus o…"

"The poetry of the troubadours was essentially social in character. Unlike Goethe's minstrel, who sang as the bird amo…"

"In the eleventh century the nobility, which had previously been terribly rough and barbarous, began to grow more refi…"