Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE FRIENDLIEST OF POETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE First Line: Chaucer, kind heart, who with the score and ten Last Line: Your frank and winsome rhyme! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom | ||||||||
CHAUCER, kind heart, who with the score and ten Laughed your long way through Kent's a-greening fields, So mild, my gentleman! yet your arch pen Its ancient freshness yields; Life was to you no dreary heaviness, No, nor a fretting puzzle for the mind; You saw the best and worst, and both would bless, For both were of mankind. The "smale fowles" lusty would be singing, The summoner his "stif burdoun" would bear, But in your poet-soul the music ringing Was sure the sweetest there. Maister of words, and lover of the human, Refresh us ever with your vernal prime; A tonic draught for us, or man or woman Your frank and winsome rhyme! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 5 by CONRAD AIKEN SONG: NOW THAT SHE IS HERE; FOR JOE-ANNE by HAYDEN CARRUTH WISE: HAVING THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND ADOPT THE BEST by LUCILLE CLIFTON WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS by COUNTEE CULLEN FOR RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965 by NORMAN DUBIE THE MORTAL WORDS OF ZWEIK by PHILIP LEVINE A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE |
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