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Famous Leche Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Leche poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous leche poems. These examples illustrate what a famous leche poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...our dome shal bee. 
Mie sonne, mie sonne alleyn, ystorven ys; 
Here wylle I staie, and end mie lyff with thee; 
A lyff leche myne a borden ys ywis. 
Now from e'en logges fledden is selyness, 
Mynsterres alleyn can boaste the hallie Seyncte, 
Now doeth Englonde wearea a bloudie dresse 
And wyth her champyonnes gore her face depeyncte; 
Peace fledde, disorder sheweth her dark rode, 
And thorow ayre doth flie, yn garments steyned with bloude. 

Eclogue the Second 

Nygelle. 

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by Chatterton, Thomas



...res carabineros viene,
sus negras capas ce?idas
y los gorros en las sienes.

 El ingl?s da a la gitana
un vaso de tibia leche,
y una copa de ginebra
que Preciosa no se bebe.

 Y mientras cuenta, llorando
su aventura a aquella gente,
en las tejas de pizarra
el viento, furioso, muerde....Read more of this...
by García Lorca, Federico
...'And therfor wostow what I thee beseche? 
Lat be thy wo and turning to the grounde;
For who-so list have helping of his leche,
To him bihoveth first unwrye his wounde.
To Cerberus in helle ay be I bounde,
Were it for my suster, al thy sorwe, 
By my wil, she sholde al be thyn to-morwe.
'Loke up, I seye, and tel me what she is
Anoon, that I may goon aboute thy nede;
Knowe ich hir ought? For my love, tel me this;
Than wolde I hopen rather for to spede.' 
Tho gan the veyne of Tro...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...as born,
Was I so bisy no man for to preche,
Ne never was to wight so depe y-sworn, 
Or he me tolde who mighte been his leche.
But now to yow rehersen al his speche,
Or alle his woful wordes for to soune,
Ne bid me not, but ye wol see me swowne.

'But for to save his lyf, and elles nought, 
And to non harm of yow, thus am I driven;
And for the love of god that us hath wrought,
Swich chere him dooth, that he and I may liven.
Now have I plat to yow myn herte shriven;
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by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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