Best Chaucer Poems
Below are the all-time best Chaucer poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chaucer poems written by PoetrySoup members
Chaucer translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart...
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Categories:
chaucer, beauty, heart, relationship, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Chaucer and a Cup and SaucerChaucer and a Cup and Saucer
I just had been reading some Chaucer
When I picked up a cup from its saucer
Looked below and by chance saw...
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Categories:
chaucer, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Chaucer translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds...
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Categories:
chaucer, beauty, french, heart, innocence,
Form:
Roundel
The Call of the Alpha MaleRobin Hood, man in tights
Julius Caesar, might makes right
Alexander, called "the Great"
Sitting Bull, righteous hate
Robert the Bruce, Attila the Hun
Charlemagne, Napoleon
Hear the call of the...
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Categories:
chaucer, funny, hero, humorous, men,
Form:
Light Verse
Solitude in AcademiaHomer, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Goethe, and Crane;
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Whitman, and Twain;
Whose imagination and toil helped to unfold
Stories, philosophies, and lessons to be told.
The...
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Categories:
chaucer, books, deep, happiness, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
ShakespeareaholicHe didn’t care for Wilde,
And Chaucer was ‘alright,’
But quoted from The Bard
At morning, noon and night.
He loved the characters,
The funny and bizarre -
And fat old...
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Categories:
chaucer, devotion
Form:
Verse
Tide and TimeIcy shards reflect what is seen
but not what is meant to be
I will wait not on tomorrow
as the temples...
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Categories:
chaucer, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
So Many ChoicesHarvard, Princeton or Yale?
I'll take some courses by mail
Engineering or Mathematics?
I'm majoring in Acrobatics
Piano, Violin, Flute or Clarinet?
...
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Categories:
chaucer, growth, judgement, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The DreamerI wrote this 50 years ago, yup, been dipping the brain in ink for a few years now.
What do you do on a rainy day...
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Categories:
chaucer, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...
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Categories:
chaucer, character, desire, devotion, flower,
Form:
Sonnet
EULOGY FOR FRANKMy father died prematurely while away on
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart
I never doubted he loved me,...
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Categories:
chaucer, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
In Miami
I went to Miami to find the beach
The beach was sandy and warm
It tasted like rye whiskey
Smooth and hard to forget
I went to New York...
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Categories:
chaucer, allegory, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Strangers Warning, this poem is dark. It is inspired by the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Gather around and hear of the strange day,
When three...
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Categories:
chaucer, dark,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Ancestry: BardsHomer,Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, Eliot
Soyinka, Okigbo, Osundare
Now me, recycling human ideas...
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Categories:
chaucer, history
Form:
Haiku
Wonderland I: The Hatter's Tale
Morning
Impaired by his tremors
And a troublesome cough,
He turned fur into felt
Before cooling things off.
He drooled once or twice
And grew cold in his bones,
But he shaped...
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Categories:
chaucer, drink, fantasy, imagery, literature,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable quotes: Poets - XXXVIUnquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI
For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965...
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Categories:
chaucer, creation, poetry, poets, word
Form:
Epigram
Robotic Ascension - Part 1It was a grey day more or less on planet earth,
But earth’s robots hardly noticed at all
Robot logic so tuned into ones and zeros,
On and...
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Categories:
chaucer, life, planet,
Form:
Blank verse
A Word with you, TSA moment of your time TS Eliot
as I shall praise you with glory.
You are a genius,
an American now an English Gentleman
went to Harvard,
went to London,
Married...
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Categories:
chaucer, beautiful, beauty, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderland III: The Hairdresser's Tale
Morning
She would chat and then nod as she washed
And laugh as she dried and then curled
But behind all the smiles that were wide, fixed and...
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Categories:
chaucer, abuse, dark, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
The Bucket ListThe Bucket List
Imagine if you will, a scene unlike any other,
Sipping Espresso daybreak, foothills of snow that smother.
Pavement Café in Zermatt, first patron of the...
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Categories:
chaucer, holiday, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Burnel or Brunellus the Ass
If two heads are better than one
How much better is three.
For the time has come
When Translators cannot agree.
Nigel wrote the words in Latin script
And...
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Categories:
chaucer, animal, political,
Form:
Light Verse
Wonderland II: The Watchmaker's Tale
Morning
Having sighed a great sigh
He perused all his tools
From the mainsprings and tweezers
To the wheels and the jewels.
He removed the large case latch
From the pocket...
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Categories:
chaucer, betrayal, business, fantasy, literature,
Form:
Narrative
Wonderland IV: The Chef's Tale
Morning
The Innkeeper checked his watch once again
Hoping the chef's feelings weren't hurt.
The last time they were, he arrived two hours late
And then left, serving...
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Categories:
chaucer, betrayal, conflict, drink, food,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
chaucer, england, history,
Form:
Free verse
Brexit Is Icumen In, May's Gone CuckooBrexit Is Icumenn In, May's gone cuckoo!
No shame is poverty, if the heart by gay !
As Chaucer's Wife of Bath was wont to say;
Is this the...
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Categories:
chaucer, political,
Form:
Political Verse