Bernard

This poem by Bernard de Ventadour is a good example of the verse of the troubadours. The lady whose praises it sings may well have been Eleanor of Aquitaine, because Bernard was a poet at her court.

Lady, I'm yours and yours will stay,
Pledged to your service, come what may.
This oath I take is full and free,
The kind of vow that will hold sure:
Of all my joys you are the first
And of them all you'll be the last,
As long as my life endures.

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Created Dec 8 1994 by Aaron Rice (jar22@email.byu.edu)
a Timpview High School student
in partnership with the
David O. McKay School of Education
Brigham Young University