The Centuries' Poetry: Chaucer to ShakespeareDenys Kilham Roberts Penguin Books, 1950 - English poetry |
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... sight of matter of your sonde . Mine eyen two , in vain with which I see , Of sorrowful tearés salt arn waxen wells ; My song , in plaint of mine adversity ; 60 My good , in harm ; mine ease eek waxen helle is . My joy , in woe ; I can ...
... sight of matter of your sonde . Mine eyen two , in vain with which I see , Of sorrowful tearés salt arn waxen wells ; My song , in plaint of mine adversity ; 60 My good , in harm ; mine ease eek waxen helle is . My joy , in woe ; I can ...
Page 166
... sight , And never hath her beauty seen But through a veil of white ; Than roses , richer to behold , That trim up lovers ' bowers , The pansy and the marigold , Though Phoebus ' paramours . " Thou well describ'st the daffodil ; It is ...
... sight , And never hath her beauty seen But through a veil of white ; Than roses , richer to behold , That trim up lovers ' bowers , The pansy and the marigold , Though Phoebus ' paramours . " Thou well describ'st the daffodil ; It is ...
Page 198
... sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet , And I myself in cramasie . But had I wist , before I kist , That love had been sae ill to win , I had lockt my heart in a case of gowd And pinn'd it with a siller pin . And , O ! if ...
... sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet , And I myself in cramasie . But had I wist , before I kist , That love had been sae ill to win , I had lockt my heart in a case of gowd And pinn'd it with a siller pin . And , O ! if ...
Contents
GEOFFREY CHAUCER | 13 |
From The Nuns Priests Tale | 33 |
Chaucers Wordes unto Adam His Own Scriveyn | 39 |
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