Peirol

thumb| Peirol or Peiròl (born c. 1160, fl. 1188–1222/1225, died in the 1220s) was an Auvergnat troubadour who wrote mostly cansos of courtly love in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thirty-four surviving poems written in Occitan have been attributed to him; of these, seventeen (sixteen of them love songs) have surviving melodies. He is sometimes called Peirol d'Auvergne or Peiròl d'Auvèrnha, and erroneously Pierol. Quotes Gran talen ai qu'un baisarLi pogues tolre o emblar;É si pueis s'en iraissia,Volentiers lo li rendria. I'm pining, from that lady gayA kiss to take or steal away;And should the deed her coyness pain,I'd freely give it back again. Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 268, note Cp. Catullus 5, l. 7, and Raoul de Soissons, from the Anthologie Françoise: How does my spirit eager pine,But once to press those lips of thine;— [...]And if the theft  Thine ire awake,A hundred fold  I'd give it back. External links Category:Poets from France