{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/arthur/art086.htm","path":"neu/arthur/art086.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/arthur/art086.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends/Sagas\u00a0\n England\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n An Arthurian Miscellany\n LAUNCELOT AND GAWAINE\n by\n RICHARD HOVEY\n \n \n Two women loved a poet. One was dark,\n Luxuriant with the beauty of the south,\n A heart of fire--and this one he forsook.\n The other slender, tall, with wide gray eyes,\n Who loved him with a still intensity\n That made her heart a shrine--to her he clave,\n And he was faithful to her to the end.\n And when the poet died, a song was found\n Which he had writ, of Launcelot and Gawaine;\n And when the women read it, one cried out:\n \"Where got he Launcelot? Gawaine I know--\n He drew that picture from a looking-glass--\n Sleek, lying, treacherous, golden-tongued Gawaine!\"\n The other, smiling, murmured \"Launcelot!\"\n \n \n \n Next: The Quest of Merlin, by Richard Hovey [1891]","title":"Arthurian Miscellany: Launcelot and Gawaine, by Richard Hovey [1888]","type":"page"}