Fowles Poems - Poems about Fowles

...Translations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD loose translation/interp......

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...Medieval Poems Wulf and Eadwacer (Old English circa 990 AD) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My people pursue him like crippled prey. They'll rip him apart if he appr......

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...I Have Labored Sore anonymous medieval lyric (circa the fifteenth century) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I have labored sore / and suffered death, so now I rest / and ca......

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...Poems about the Coronavirus II This World's Joy (anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Winter awakens all my care......

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...For the benefit of any non-Middle-English speakers, a literal, word-for-word translation has been provided beneath each line of the original: Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote! When w......

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...Instruction by Michael R. Burch Toss this poem aside to the filigreed and the wild tide of sunset. Strike my name, and still it is all the same. The onset of night is in the despairing ......

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...Does it taste like real turtle? Lewis Carroll’s a mad Alice’s Adventure Is Mock turtle soup made from Mock Turtle? Maybe but English through and through! There an imitation of proper green ......

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