The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Of Queen Annelida and false Arcite. The complaint of the Black Knight. A praise of women. The house of fame. The complaint of Mars and Venus. Of the cuckow and the nightingale. The court of love. Chaucer's dream. The flower and the leaf. Minor poems

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W. Pickering, 1845

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Pàgina 69 - cast up thyne eye, See yonder lo, the galaxie, The which men clepe the milky way, For it is white : and some parfay Callen it Watling streete...
Pàgina 248 - That was right goodly and pleasuant to sight, I sie where there came singing lustily A world of ladies...
Pàgina 247 - Where she sat in a fresh grene laurer tree, On the further side even right by me, That gave so passing a delicious smell, According to the eglentere full well. Whereof I had so inly great pleasure, That, as me thought, I surely ravished was Into Paradise, where my desire Was for to be...
Pàgina 248 - Paradise, where my desire Was for to be, and no ferther passe, As for that day, and on the sote grasse I sat me downe, for as for mine entent, The...
Pàgina 255 - With great reverence, and that full humbly ; And at the last there began anone A lady for to sing right womanly A bargaret in praising the daisie ; For as me thought among her notes swete, She said
Pàgina 248 - I sat the birds harkening thus, Me thought that I heard voices sodainly, The most sweetest and most delicious That ever any wight I trow truly Heard in their life, for the armony And sweet accord was in so good musike, That the voice to angels most was like.
Pàgina 260 - It is witnesse of their deeds mightily. " Eke there be knightes old of the garter, That in hir time did right worthily, And the honour they did to the laurer, Is for by it they have their laud wholly...
Pàgina 126 - You recollect, perhaps, the dispute that follows between the cuckoo and the nightingale, and the promise which the sweet singer makes to Chaucer for rescuing her. " And then came the Nightingale to me And said Friend, forsooth I thanke thee That thou hast liked me to rescue, And one avow to Love make I now That all this May, I will thy singer be. I thanked her, and was right well apaied, Yea, quoth she, and be not thou dismaied, Tho...
Pàgina 122 - Full little joy have I now of thy cry." And as I with the cuckow thus gan chide, I heard, in the next bush beside, A nightingale so lustely sing, That her clere voice she made ring Thurgh all the greene wood wide. "Ah, good nightingale...
Pàgina 257 - To an hegge, where they anon right, To make their justs they would not spare Boughes to hew down, and eke trees square, Wherwith they made hem stately fires great, To dry their clothes that were wringing weat.

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