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Avitus [Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus], Bishop of Vienne
F. J. E. Raby (ed.), The Oxford Book of Medieval Latin Verse
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- 1 Acrostich on the Last Judgment
- 2 The Resurrection
- 3 From her Virgilian cento: the Creation
- 4 The Resurrection
- 5 Hymn
- 6 The Life of Christ
- 7 The Epitaph he composed for himself
- 8 Epitaph for St. Tiburtius, Martyr
- 9 Hymn at Cockcrow
- 10 Hymn at Dawn
- 11 Hymn at the lighting of the Lamps
- 12 Hymn for Christmas Eve
- 13 The Last Judgement
- 14 Te Deum laudamus
- 15 Preface to the Cathemerinon
- 16 Hymn at Cock-crow
- 17 Hymn before Sleep
- 18 The Innocents
- 19 Hymn for the Burial of the Dead
- 20 Hymn for Every Hour
- 21 S. Eulalia's Tomb at Merida
- 22 Julian the Apostate
- 23 From his Psalm against the Donatists
- 24 His Affection for Ausonius
- 25 The Feast of St. Felix is his Springtime
- 26 The Nightingale
- 27 Epithalamium for Iulianius and Titia
- 28 Hymn on St. Patrick
- 29 In Time of Drought
- 30 A solis ortus cardine
- 31 Prayer at the beginning of his Epic
- 32 Rhythmical Iambics to Count Arbogast
- 33 In Time of Invasion
- 34 The Earthly Paradise
- 35 The Six Ages of Man
- 36 Hymn for Compline
- 37 Hymn for Vespers
- 38 Easter Hymn
- 39 Hymn for Compline
- 40 Hymn for Vespers at Easter
- 41 Hymn for Prime
- 42 Iesu, nostra redemptio
- 43 Rhetoric Rules the World
- 44 The Garden of Eden
- 45 St. Paul to the Elders of Ephesus
- 46 From the Lorica
- 47 Hisperica Famina: Sunrise
- 48 Altus Prosator
- 49 Noli, Pater
- 50 Versiculi familiae Benchuir
- 51 Hymn at the Communion of Priests
- 52 In Natalae Martyrum
- 53 A Storm in Devon
- 54 Hymn to the Holy Cross (1)
- 55 Hymn to the Holy Cross (2)
- 56 Crux benedicta nitet
- 57 Verses on the Resurrection
- 58 The Poet sends Violets to St. Radegund
- 59 Hymn to the Virgin Mary
- 60 Epistle to Fedolius in Adonics
- 61 The Geography of Asia
- 62 The Nightingale
- 63 Hymn for the Dedication of a Church
- 64 The Monastic Church at Malmesbury
- 65 Hymn to St. Etheldreda
- 66 Hymn to St. John the Baptist
- 67 Aachen, the Second Rome
- 68 The Swan Sequence
- 69 Beatu tu, Virgo Maria
- 70 Hymn for the Saturday before Saptuagesima
- 71 Ave maris stella
- 72 The Abbot of Angers
- 73 Sancte sator, suffragator
- 74 The Love of Ireland
- 75 Contention of Winter and Spring
- 76 Hymn for a Synod at Friuli
- 77 On the Festival of St. Peter and St. Paul
- 78 He laments his Lost Nightingale
- 79 Too Quick Despairer, wherefore wilt thou go?
- 80 On his Cell
- 81 For the Palm Sunday Procession
- 82 The Thrush Charms away his Toothache
- 83 The Battle of Fontenoy
- 84 The Rose and the Lily
- 85 The Publican in the Temple
- 86 The Nightingale
- 87 Ireland
- 88 Veni, creator spiritus
- 89 A Prayer to God
- 90 Prayer to Christ
- 91 Penitential Prayer
- 92 O cur iubes canere?
- 93 The beginning of the Eclogue of Theodulus
- 94 His Manner of Life
- 95 Walther's Battle with Gunther and Hagen
- 96 The Day of Judgement
- 97 Sequence for the First Sunday in Advent
- 98 The Song of the Return of the Alleluia
- 99 Quem quaeritis in sepulchro?
- 100 'Anacreontic' Song
- 101 O Roma nobilis
- 102 Watching Song
- 103 O admirabile Veneris idolum
- 104 Prologue to a Panegyrical Poem on the Emperor Berengar: Dialogue between the Author and his Book
- 105 Sequence for the Resurrection
- 106 The Oriole, a Visitor to the Monastery
- 107 The Alleluiatic Sequence
- 108 Sequence for the Dedication of a Church
- 109 Rachel Mourning for a Martyr
- 110 Ecbasis Captivi: the Blackbird and the Nightingale sing of Christ's Passion
- 111 God Manifest in his Works
- 112 Within emerges from the Whale's Belly
- 113 Sequence for Christmas
- 114 Alma Redemptoris Mater
- 115 Quis est hic?
- 116 Sequence for St. Nicholas
- 117 Verbum bonum et suave
- 118 Sequence on the Virgin Mary
- Close sectionFrom The 'Cambridge Songs'
- 125 Autobiographical Verses
- 126 The Nightingale in Springtime
- 127 Verses in a Horatian Measure
- 128 Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
- 129 The Tale of Abbot John
- 130 The nouveau riche
- 131 Ruodlieb plays Chess with the King
- 132 Epitaph for his Mother
- 133 Easter Sequence
- 134 De die mortis
- 135 The Glories of Paradise
- 136 Two Epigrams on Archdeacon Hildebrand
- 137 Lament for Troy
- 138 Invitatio
- 139 Ode to Archdeacon Hildebrand
- 140 An Ode to his young Friend Transmundus
- 141 Salve, regina
- 142 A Poet's Lament
- 143 On the Death of his Little Dog
- 144 The Fall of Troy
- 145 Malchus Prays to his Guardian Angel
- 146 De quot quot et tot tot
- 147 Sequence for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
- 148 Virginalis sancta frequentia
- 149 The Praise of Flanders
- 150 Prayer to the Virgin Mary
- 151 Prayer to God
- 152 Hymn on St. Mary Magdalene
- 153 The Pleasures of Country Life
- 154 To Emma, a Nun: Country Pleasures and the Rustic Muse
- 155 To Adela, Countess of Blois: from a Description of her Chamber and its Tapestries
- 156 The Metamorphosis of Golias: The poet's vision of the cosmos
- 157 On his Exile
- 158 His Two Roman Elegies
- 159 The Heavenly City
- 160 The Joys of Heaven
- 161 From the Mariale
- 162 Sequence for St. Stephen's Day
- 163 Sequence for the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
- 164 Easter Sequence
- 165 St. John the Evangelist
- 166 The Ilias
- 167 The Wrath of Achilles
- 168 On his master Abelard to induce him to relent
- 169 Saturday at Vespers
- 170 Candlemas
- 171 In Parasceve Domini
- 172 The Lament of David for Saul and Jonathan
- 173 The Lament of the Virgins of Israel for Jephthah's Daughter
- 174 From Ysengrimus: the Fox steals the Parson's Fowl on Sunday
- 175 His Bitter Complaint
- 176 Primas and his Cloak
- 177 His Lament for Flora who has left him
- 178 Durham Castle
- 179 Hymn for the Nativity
- 180 Poem for the Feast of the Staff
- 181 Ladon et Cidnus Pastores
- 182 A Woodland Adventure
- 183 His Confession, to the Arch-chancellor, Rainald of Dassel
- 184 He Begs for Warm Clothing
- 185 He Cannot write of the Deeds of Barbarossa
- 186 Under the Figure of Jonah he asks his Patron for Forgiveness
- 187 Give to him that asketh
- 188 The Beauty of Helen
- 189 A Circle of Death
- 190 Ad iuvenem et puellam affectuosius se invicem intuentes
- 191 The Glory of Alexander
- 192 The Poet has a Daughter born to him
- 193 The Lover in Winter
- 194 Pastourelles (a) Declinante frigore
- 195 Pastourelles (a) Sole regente
- 196 Pericula Romanae Curiae
- 197 De Clericis
- 198 Satire against the Curia
- 199 His Song of Repentance
- 200 His Song in his Last Sickness
- 201 Call to Crusaders
- 202 Love in Summer
- 203 Apocalypse of Golias: the Vision of Pythagoras
- 204 Love in Winter
- 205 The Nun's Lament
- 206 The Prose of the Ass
- 207 Song for the Feast of Fools
- 208 A Mystic Pastourelle
- 209 Altercatio Phyllidis et Florae
- 210 Contest of the Rose and the Violet
- 211 Cur suspectum me tenet domina?
- 212 Spring Song
- 213 Si linguis angelicis
- 214 O comes amores, dolor
- 215 Sic mea fata canendo solor
- 216 Dum Dianae vitrea
- 217 A Pastoral Adventure
- 218 Another Pastoral Adventure
- 219 Stetit puella
- 220 Pastourelle
- 221 Ubi amor, ibi miseria
- 222 The Faithless Woman
- 223 Betrayed
- Close sectionPoems from the Ripoll Collection
- Close sectionPoems from the Arundel Collection
- 233 Dulcis Iesu memoria
- 234 Love in Winter
- 235 Two 'Dido' Laments (a) O decus, O Libyae
- 236 Two 'Dido' Laments (b) Anna soror ut quid mori
- 237 Nunc est bibendum
- 238 'Some Secrets may the Poet Tell'
- 239 His Farewell to the World
- 240 Lady Nature's Garden
- 241 Ode to Nature
- 242 Omnis caro fenum
- 243 The Ass who wanted a Longer Tail
- 244 The Hermaphrodite
- 245 How to describe Feminine Beauty
- 246 De Bello Troiano: The Death of Protesilaus
- 247 'What a Piece of Work is a Man!'
- 248 De subito amore
- 249 Veni, sancte spiritus
- 250 Song for a Bishop
- 251 For Vespers
- 252 For the Nocturn
- 253 For Lauds
- 254 On the Roman Curia
- 255 Planctus Christi de malis praesulibus
- 256 The Virgin's Complaint to the Cross
- 257 Altercatio cordis et oculi
- 258 Repent!
- 259 Dies irae, dies illa
- 260 From the Office of the Holy Cross
- 261 From the Laudismus de Sancta Cruce
- 262 Sequence for Corpus Christi
- 263 Hymn for Vespers (Corpus Christi)
- 264 Hymn for Lauds (Corpus Christi)
- 265 Meditation on the Blessed Sacrament
- 266 From his Philomena
- 267 From the Quindecim Gaudia
- 268 The end of his Quinquaginta Cantica
- 269 From the Cythara, on the Passion of Christ
- 270 From the Quinquaginta Salutationes
- 271 From the Viola
- 272 The Last Supper
- 273 The first part of his Philomena
- 274 Hymn on the Trinity
- 275 Easter Song
- 276 Spring Song
- 277 Exhortatio ad poenitentiam
- 278 Cum animadverterem
- 279 Pugna contra Venerem
- 280 Transit Hebraeus libere
- 281 Song on the Power of Money
- 282 Beati mundo corde
- 283 The Lament of Samson
- 284 Vanitas vanitatum
- 285 Stabat mater
- 286 Why there is a Weather-cock on the Church Tower
- 287 Ave, verum corpus
- 288 New Year's Day
- 289 The Assumption
- 290 Canticum Amoris de Beata Virgine
- Close section End Matter
