A Jongleur Strayed / Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane

The collection gathers lyric poems that probe diverse moods of love—playful gallantry, tender devotion, quarrelsome jealousy, and elegiac loss—often rendered as short songs, ballades, and occasional monologues. Many pieces rely on nature and classical allusion—springs, roses, woods, and ancient poets—to shape emotion and memory. The volume is arranged in distinct sections that alternate intimate love-lyrics, nature meditations, tributes and dramatic addresses, and a concluding group of miscellaneous and sometimes political or moral poems. The tone shifts between urbane wit and wistful meditation, repeatedly returning to motifs of music, beauty, transience, and the small ceremonies of affection.