Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAMENT FOR CHAUCER, by THOMAS HOCCLEVE Poet Analysis First Line: Allas! My worthi maister honorable Last Line: O maister, maister, god thi soule reste! Alternate Author Name(s): Occleve, Thomas Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) | ||||||||
ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable, This landes verray tresor and richesse! Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparable Unto us doon: hir vengeable duresse Despoiled hath this land of the swetnesse Of rethorik; for unto Tullius Was never man so lyk amonges us. Also who was hier in philosophie To Aristotle in our tonge but thou? The steppes of Virgile in poesie Thou folwedist eeke, men wot wel ynow. Thou combre-worlde that the my maister slow -- Wolde I slayn were! -- Deth, was to hastyf To renne on thee and reve the thi lyf... She myghte han taried hir vengeance a while Til that sum man had egal to the be; Nay, lat be that! sche knew wel that this y1e May never man forth brynge lyk to the, And hir office needes do mot she: God bad hir so, I truste as for the beste; O maister, maister, God thi soule reste! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAUCERS WORDES UNTO ADAM, HIS OWN SCRIVEYN by GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON by GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST by GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE GOLDEN TARGE by WILLIAM DUNBAR WORD-PORTRAITS: THE DESCRIPTION OF SIR GEOFFREY CHAUCER by ROBERT GREENE CHAUCER; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IMITATION OF CHAUCER by ALEXANDER POPE A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN by ALFRED TENNYSON INSCRIPTIONS: 2. FOR A STATUE OF CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK by MARK AKENSIDE BALADE AND ROUNDEL TO MASTER SOMER by THOMAS HOCCLEVE HOCCLEVE'S HUMOROUS PRAISE OF HIS LADY by THOMAS HOCCLEVE THE REGEMENT OF PRINCES [DE REGIMINE PRINCIPUM]: PROEM by THOMAS HOCCLEVE |
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