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The Oxford book of Portuguese verse

Chapter 110: D. AFONSO SANCHEZ
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This anthology gathers Portuguese verse from the twelfth through the twentieth century, presenting medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric—dance and pilgrimage songs—alongside troubadour-influenced courtly love poems, satirical pieces, and later lyric developments. An extended introduction situates the poems in early national formation, foreign contacts, and manuscript songbooks, and highlights forms such as cantigas de amigo, cantigas de amor, serranilhas, barcarolas, and other folk and court genres. Selections stress the music and dance origins of many texts and trace a continuity between popular village songs and cultivated court poetry, offering a historical and formal panorama of Portuguese poetic tradition.

D. AFONSO SANCHEZ

c. 1285-1329.

80. Cossante

Dizia la fremosinha,
ai Deus val!
com’ estou d’ amor ferida!
ai Deus val!
Dizia la ben talhada,
ai Deus val!
com’ estou d’ amor coitada!
ai Deus val!
Com’ estou d’ amor ferida,
ai Deus val!
non ven o que ben queria!
ai Deus val!
Com’ estou d’ amor coitada,
ai Deus val!
non ven o que muit’ amava!
ai Deus val!