A Ballad Sent to King Richard (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
Sometime this world was so steadfast and stable,That man's word was held obligation;And now it is so false and deceivable,That ...
Sometime this world was so steadfast and stable,That man's word was held obligation;And now it is so false and deceivable,That ...
Somtyme the world was so stedfast and stableThat mannes word was obligacioun,And now it is so fals and deceivableThat word ...
Primus PastorHaylle, comly and clene! Haylle, yong child!Haylle, maker, as I meyne, of a madn so mylde!Thou has waryd, I ...
Murmur not and say thou art in fetters holden, Murmur not that thou earth's heavy yoke must bear. Say ...
Before the throne the spirits of the slain With a loud voice importunately cried, "O Lord of Hosts, ...
From out a windy cleft there comes a gazeOf eyes unearthly, which go to and froUpon the people's tumult, for ...
My lady carries love within her eyes;All that she looks on is made pleasanter;Upon her path men turn to gaze ...
Poets ther ben in plenteous line yt take ye auncient themeOf singing to a ladye's eyen whiche maken them to ...
When priestes failen in their saws,And lordes turne Godde's lawsAgainst the right;And lechery is holden as privy solace,And robbery as ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures, to make room for more--- ...
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
When the salt wave laps on the long, dim shore, And frets the reef with its windy sallies, And the ...
Here I lean over you, small son, sleeping Warm in my arms, And I con to my heart all your ...
There would be a knock at the door And I would arise at midnight and go to the shop, Where ...
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable ...
If haply thou, O Desdemona Morn, Shouldst call along the curving sphere, "Remain, Dear Night, sweet Moor; nay, leave me ...
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