NAPOMO Day 11: Now goth sonnë under wode

[tree_and_leaf]

I was going to post Quia Amore Langueo, a wonderful and rather hallucinatory piece of fifteenth(?) century bridal/ passion mysticism, with Christ as both lover and mother of the human soul, but it's extremely long, so I shall merely link to it instead.

Have a short, subdued one instead (I think the restraint is more appropriate for Easter Eve, anyway)

Now goth sonnë under wode,
Me reweth, Marie, thi fairë rode*
Now goth sonnë under tre,
Me reweth, Marie, thi sone and thee.

*face

(MS Oxford, Bodl. Arch. Selden, supra 74, but found in other mss. Following T Duncan (ed) Medieval English Lyrics 1200-1400)


In other news, I have a reading list for Dreamwidth (open id only, as yet). Anyone else about there? I've found oursin, emily_shore, and wychwood already...

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[owl]

Me! http://owl.dreamwidth.org

[tree_and_leaf]

Got you! I knew you had to be on there somewhere....