Abelard Poems - Poems about Abelard

...Her fair-skinned form is more than I deserve; because her skin is light, and mine is dark, like Tristan and Yseult's love which King Mark forbade, we're banned from passion's sweet prese......

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... Like moon on nights of skies unstarred she lived without her Abelard. A parched, still plain was Heloise - like moon on nights of skies unstarred. In death she would not lose regard for him wh......

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...A Capulet named Juliette Exclaimed to her ardent beau, "You're not to blame Montagu's your name. By its nature a rose's aroma is sweet, Though in nomenclature it be not so neat, But wherefore ar......

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...IF LOVERS WE (To Julia) `` If lovers we, you and I, who would we be? W0uld we be William Powell and Myrna Loy, sophisticates, trading alcoholic quips across the dining room? Would we be Abe......

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...A legendary tale of love I know about two very brilliant people who were soul mates living centuries ago. They shared much hardship but their love stayed true. Truth seeker Heloise sought Abelard......

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...The Poets Duel I consider myself the poet Of historic love affairs Not the Romeo and Juliette’s we all know The ones mirrored in lesser history of lore Like Heloise and Abelard I was the ki......

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...La dernière valse From the skies Clouds fall upon my dreams I am up high, away from it all I am far, but my tears still fall I stand up and shout to Paris ( Pareee) You left me, you left me h......

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...These barren walls Keep me chaste Vows of silence Diminish nothing of wanton passions of the past Days in silence, looking upwards to God Thoughts linger, to where true love lies I toil in Go......

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..."Then there is no more left but this, that in our doom the sorrow yet to come shall be no less than the love we two have already known" (Words of Heloise to Abelard after her pregnancy) Li......

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... You have been influential company since you came from your town in Brittany. You possess prowess in philosophy, and are next to none in theology. Your presence is a formidable stance as you ......

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...As though she were a moon in sky of nights unstarred; as though a silent, untouched plain was Heloise when parted from the one who'd been her rain and breeze. She lived her life, but lived without he......

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...Ice covered ponds and snow covered beaches Lost memories of Clemintine, Rush back to me at once As I listen to this tape... Rewind, and listen again It seems that she forgot me, And I forgot he......

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