The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men-- For skimming in the ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard, And happy units of a numerous herd Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings, ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Walk here among the walking scepters. Learn inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave to bone this tightly if their hearts ...
You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, Across the moon the clouds fly fast, The house is smitten as with a ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall. In every touch ...
Swings the way still by hollow and hill, And all the world's a song; "She's far," it sings me, "but ...
(Sung, on one night, in the cities, in the darkness.) Come away! Come away! Ye are sober and dull through ...
In darkness the loud sea makes moan; And earth is shaken, and all evils creep About her ways. Oh, now ...
So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone, And the way was laid so certainly, that, ...
Warm perfumes like a breath from vine and tree Drift down the darkness. Plangent, hidden from eyes Somewhere an `eukaleli' ...
I came back late and tired last night Into my little room, To the long chair and the firelight And ...
Voices out of the shade that cried, And long noon in the hot calm places, And children's play by the ...
Because God put His adamantine fate Between my sullen heart and its desire, I swore that I would burst the ...
In darkness the loud sea makes moan; And earth is shaken, and all evils creep About her ways. Oh, now ...
When you were there, and you, and you, Happiness crowned the night; I too, Laughing and looking, one of all, ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
(France -- Ancient Regime.) I. Go away! Go away; I will not confess to you! His black biretta clings like ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Foes I sniff, when I have less to shout or murmur. Pals alone enormous sounds downward & up bring real. ...
The surly cop looked out at me in sleep insect-like. Guess, who was the insect. I'd asked him in my ...
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