Geoffrey Poems - Poems about Geoffrey

These are modern English translations of poems written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer translation by Michael R. Burch When April with her sweet showers has pierced the drought of March...Read the rest...

"Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde" by Petrarch translation by Geoffrey Chaucer modernization by Michael R. Burch If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low? And if love is, what thing, and which, is he? If love is good,...Read the rest...

These are modern English translations of love poems by Geoffrey Chaucer. These are poems of love, longing, passion and desire. To Rosemounde: A Ballade by Geoffrey Chaucer translation by Michael R. Burch Madame, you’re a shrine to loveliness And as...Read the rest...

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Escape rondel/roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer translation by Michael R. Burch Since I’m escaped from Love and yet still fat, I never plan to be in his prison lean; Since I am free, I count it not a bean. He may question...Read the rest...

Three Roundels by Geoffrey Chaucer I. Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty") by Geoffrey Chaucer translation by Michael R. Burch Your eyes slay me suddenly; their beauty I cannot sustain, they wound me so, through my heart keen. Unless your words heal me hastily, my...Read the rest...

Your yen two wol slee me sodenly Surrounded by warm sand Black pools deep as the Cold in your face Your hand With emollient grace Will cut the wire Carved then polished Hair that twists as In a Spring flood Your two eyes will slay...Read the rest...

He was a marvelous British actor but his life was something he would lose. He starred in an episode of Doctor Who and his name was Geoffrey Hughes. He starred in Keeping Up Appearances as Onslow. Millions of...Read the rest...