Long Lorica Poems
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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 your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
lorica, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
lorica, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations 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/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
lorica, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Gildas TranslationsGILDAS TRANSLATIONS
These are modern English translations of Latin poems by the English monk Gildas Sapiens (“Gildas the Wise”).
“Alas! The nature of my complaint is the widespread destruction of all that was good, followed by...
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Categories:
lorica, christian, england, evil, god, heaven, hero, sea,
Form:
Free verse