Medieval Poems Ii
...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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Categories:
myn, angel, england, love, middle
Form: Rhyme
Translation: Ich Have Y-Don Al Myn Youth
...Ich have y-don al myn youth
“I have done it all my youth”
(anonymous Middle English poem)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I have done it all my youth:
Often, often, and of...
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Categories:
myn, depression, desire, longing, love,
Form: Verse
Instruction
...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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Categories:
myn, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Pastoral
Myne Desire
...To'ed true love i desire,
A willowing in the myre,
Forever a'lingure in the fire,
The fire of myn desire...
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Categories:
myn, april, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
A Knight of Memoirs
...'Sir Lancelot/To Guenevere ( My Lady of the lake)........
........Your scent took tiny step's into the room.
I stopped dead at what I was doing.
I paused a second before lifting thyn head,
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Categories:
myn, death, devotion, love, visionary,
Form: Dramatic Verse