Round 11: Tossup 20

The speaker loses several of these objects in the waves when her dress bursts open in a poem by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (“day-BORD val-MOOR”). A line about these objects “of life” ends the 42nd of the Sonnets for Hélène (“ay-LEN”), “When You Are Old.” The speaker addresses a girl as “mignonne” (“meen-YUHN”) while describing one of these objects in Pierre de Ronsard’s “Ode to Cassandre.” Jeanne Montbason illustrated a poem in which the protagonist first sees one of these objects reflected in the (*) Spring of Narcissus. Jealousy guards one of these objects behind high walls in a poem begun by Guillaume de Lorris, whose misogynistic continuation by Jean de Meun (“duh mun”) was attacked during a later “querelle” (“ker-ELL”) by Christine de Pizan. (10[1])For 10 points, that 13th century romance is titled for what object, which Robert Herrick told virgins to gather “while ye may”? ■END■

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