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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (1342-1400) Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read, before my eyelids dropt [or, dropped] their shade Last Line: Faints, faded by its heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Sea; Sleep; Women; Ocean A WISH, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of two things one: with chaucer let me ride Last Line: Ring endless changes on the bells of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Petrarch (1304-1374); Wishes; Francesco Petrarca AFTER MANY YEARS, GRISELDA LOSES PATIENCE, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: Tonight, I saw him watching her again Last Line: What I've made of him Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights APRILLY, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whan that aprille with his shoures soote Last Line: Somme forty mile, and dam neere lyke to friz Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) CHAUCER, by BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are the sensuous stars, and manifold Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) CHAUCER, by MARY MCLEAN CHASE Poem Text First Line: A stately lady's fair-haired little page Last Line: That blooms in sunshine after april rain. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Wellesley College CHAUCER, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whan that aprille with his shoures soote' Last Line: And had to go back into oblivion Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963) CHAUCER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Into that society geoffrey chaucer was born and he died Last Line: The peasants, so I escaped not knowing you, etc. Etc Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) CHAUCER AND WINDSOR, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long shalt thou flourish, windsor! Bodying forth Last Line: Fresh beings fraught with truth's imperishable hue. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Windsor Castle CHAUCER: THE WOGAN'S TALE, by STANLEY J. SHARPLESS Poem Text First Line: A chatte-show host came with us, yclept wogan Last Line: He was a verray parfit tv type. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) CHAUCER; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man in a lodge within a park Last Line: Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead. Variant Title(s): Chaucer Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) CHAUCERS WORDES UNTO ADAM, HIS OWN SCRIVEYN, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam scriveyn, if ever it thee bifalle Last Line: And al is thurgh thy necligence and rape. Variant Title(s): To His Scribe Adam Subject(s): Books; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Reading ERLE ROBERT'S MICE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tway mice, full blythe and amicable Last Line: Full merveillous, I wote, were swilk denyal. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Mice FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue FALL OF PRINCES, SELS., by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sith of our language he was the lode-star Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry And Poets FOR MAISTER GEOFFREY CHAUCER, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard there was, and that a worthy wight Last Line: God send us such another in our time! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets HYD, ABSOLON, THY GILTE TRESSES CLERE, by DUNSTAN THOMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes like islands lure the wanderer now Last Line: Where war unwinds you like a clock--but my age,%o myrmidon of doom, shall see you seventeen Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) IMITATION OF CHAUCER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women ben full of ragerie Last Line: Then trust on mon, whose yerde can talke.' Variant Title(s): Chaucer Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) INSCRIPTIONS: 2. FOR A STATUE OF CHAUCER AT WOODSTOCK, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such was old chaucer: such the placid Last Line: To tame the rudeness of his native land. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Statues LAMENT FOR CHAUCER, by THOMAS HOCCLEVE Poem Text 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) NESSMUK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hail thee, nessmuk, for the lofty Last Line: To hail thee first and greet thee, as they should. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Robin Hood PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 1, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old there lived, of mighty fame Last Line: And theseus for his vertues held him dear. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Mythology; Theseus; War; Allegories PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 3, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day approached when fortune should decide Last Line: And all true lovers find the same success. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Death; Fables; Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Allegories REGEMENT OF PRINCES: ON CHAUCER, by THOMAS HOCCLEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: O maister deere and fadir reverent Alternate Author Name(s): Occleve, Thomas Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) ROBERT BROWNING, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blind the toil that burrows like the mole Last Line: The tragic mask of wise euripides. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, William (1816-1819) SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ruin'd relique of the ancient pile Last Line: As fancy paints the pomp that once adorn'd thy wall. Subject(s): Bards; Castles; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET WRITTEN AT THE END OF THE FLOURE AND THE LEFE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This pleasant tale is like a little copse Last Line: Were heard of none beside the mournful robins. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) TALES. AN ANSWER TO THE SOMPNER'S PROLOGUE TO CHAUCER, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sompner leudly hath his prologue told Last Line: Were there no freers, the devil mought keep in hell. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) THE CHARACTER OF A GOOD PARSON, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A parish priest was of the pilgrim train Last Line: He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper light. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Character Of A Good Parson, Imitated Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Clergy; Fables; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Allegories THE COCK AND THE FOX, OR THE TALE OF THE NUN'S PRIEST, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived, as authors tell, in days of yore Last Line: So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Cock And The Fox Subject(s): Animals; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Widows & Widowers; Allegories THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE GOLDEN TARGE, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright as the stern of day begouth to shine Last Line: The skyes rang for schoutyng of the larkis. Variant Title(s): Mirth Of May Subject(s): Birds; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) THE POETRY OF CHAUCER, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey with all honours of age! But fresh-featured and ruddy Last Line: Here beats true english blood richest joyance on sweet english ground. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets THE WIFE OF BATH HER TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old, when arthur filled the throne Last Line: Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Wife Of Bath Her Tale Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Rape; Women; Arthur, King; Allegories THE WIFE OF BRITTANY (SUGGESTED BY THE FRANKELEINE'S TALE OF CHAUCER), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truth wed to beauty in an antique tale Last Line: Touching with golden haze the quaint old-world romance. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Legends TO CHAUCER, by THOMAS HOCCLEVE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: But well away, so is mine heart woe Alternate Author Name(s): Occleve, Thomas Variant Title(s): Lament For Chauce Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) TO THE DUCHESS OF ORMOND, WITH THE POEM 'PALAMON AND ARCITE', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / the bard who first adorned our native tongue Last Line: And wear the garter of his mother's race. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: To Her Grace The Duchess Of Ormonde Subject(s): Beauty; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Somerset, Mary. Duchess Of Ormond; Thebes, Greece; Allegories TO THE FRIENDLIEST OF POETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text 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 WORD-PORTRAITS: THE DESCRIPTION OF SIR GEOFFREY CHAUCER, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His stature was not very tall Last Line: Thus did this ancient poet look. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets |
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