...BALLADS FROM FRANCOIS VILLON THREE TRANSLATIONS BY DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI I THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES ELL me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman? Where 's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman? Where is Echo, beheld of...

...an, Car ce refrain le vous remaine : Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan ! ' THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES. ' Tell me now, in what hidden way is Lady Flora, the...and mere, — She whose beauty was more than human T . . . But where are the snows of yester-year 1 • Where's Heloise, the learned nun, For whose sake...

...poet! Harrison Robertson [1856— THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES* FROM THE FRENCH OF FRAN£OIS VILLON 1450 TELL me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely...where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman? * For the original of this poem see page 3837. Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on river...

...Car ce refrain le vous remaine : Mais où sont les neiges d'antan ! ' THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES. ' Tell me now, in what hidden way is Lady Flora, the lovely Roman ? Where's Hipparchia, and where1 is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman ? Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on...

...a refrain which fused the dead list into one of the most haunting symbols of human transitoriness: Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely...human? . . . But where are the snows of yester-year ? Sainte-Beuve long ago pointed out that Villon's poignant refrain — his "Mais ou sont les neiges...

...Romaine ? Archipiade, ne Thais, Qui fut sa cousine germaine ? And here is Rossetti's jaunty English :— Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora, the...and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman ? One sees how Rossetti is inclined to romanticize that which is already romantic beyond one's dreams...

...not. Until the squeezer nips your scrag, Booze and the blowens cop the lot. The Ballad of Dead Ladies TELL me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely...human? . . . But where are the snows of yester-year? Where's Heloise, the learned nun, For whose sake Abeillard, I ween, Lost manhood and put priesthood...

...is trivial and choppy when compared with "But where are the snows of yesteryear." Then in Rossetti's "Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman" we have a splendidly suggestive interpretation of Villon's "Archipiada, ne Thais Qui fut sa cousine...

...is trivial and choppy when compared with "But where are the snows of yesteryear." Then in Rossetti's "Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman" we have a splendidly suggestive interpretation of Villon's "Archipiada, ne Thais Qui fut sa cousine...

...French poets, chiefly. Such is the wonderful rendering of Villon's "Ballad of Dead Ladies," beginning Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora, the...human? — But where are the snows of yester-year? Even Swinburne, when making his splendid translations from Villon, refrained from attempting to translate...