Monday, April 12, 2010

The Troubadour. Canto 3 Comments

Rating: 3.0

LAND of the olive and the vine,
The saint and soldier, sword and shrine!
How glorious to young RAYMOND'S eye
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Peter Bolton 26 June 2015

Note that Letitia continues to play upon her own baby daughter's name (Ella) . Here we have Leila and Elvira. Even Adeline is not so far away.

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Peter Bolton 25 June 2015

True this is a long poem of varying quality but it is worth a 10 for those wonderful passages alone.

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Peter Bolton 25 June 2015

Amirald grief over the body of Eva's mother is amongst the most heart-rending ever penned.

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