Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales translation
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 to the root,
bathing the vines’ veins in such nectar
that even sweeter flowers are engendered;
and when the West Wind with his
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Categories:
geoffrey, april, bird, flower, life,
Form: Rhyme
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch
"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, whence comes my dismal woe?
If wicked, love’s a wonder unto me,
When every torment and adversity
That comes from him, persuades me
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Categories:
geoffrey, death, drink, earth, god,
Form: Rhyme
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 1 by Michael R Burch
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 world-encircling as trade’s duties.
For your eyes shine like glorious crystals
And your round cheeks like rubies.
Therefore you’re so merry and so
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Categories:
geoffrey, beauty, dance, desire, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
geoffrey, fish, food, joy, pets,
Form: Tanka
Chaucer Translation: Escape
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 me and counter this and that;
I care not: I will answer just as I mean.
Since I’m escaped from Love and
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Categories:
geoffrey, books, freedom, love, prison,
Form: Roundel
Geoffrey Chaucer Translations
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 heart's wound will remain green;
for your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain.
By all truth, I tell you faithfully
that
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Categories:
geoffrey, beauty, death, england, heart,
Form: Roundel
After a Line By Geoffrey Chaucer
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 me suddenly
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Categories:
geoffrey, body,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Geoffrey
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 people were sorry to see this man go.
From 1974 to 1983, he starred in Coronation Street.
And from 2001 to 2005,
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Categories:
geoffrey, death, dedication,
Form: Rhyme