Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
...An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
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Categories:
palfrey, allegory, christian, england, faith,
Form: Ballad
By Weh
...PERCHANCE, pure ignorance led me to thine fate,
this insensitive cast of shadowed ills,
master of melancholy,
captain of misery,
pukes wormed to,
fester my sole.
WROUGHT, I t...
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Categories:
palfrey, angst,
Form: Free verse
Dream Lady
...Saturnalia my Dream
Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute
obduration under duress a malleable direction
coming to nothing just the gearing of time
Spartan gates left open to a millennium...
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Categories:
palfrey, evil, life,
Form: Free verse
Saturnalia
...Cycloidal forms transmuting to the involute
obduration under duress a malleable direction
coming to nothing just the gearing of time
Spartan gates left open to a millennium of thought
three legge...
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Categories:
palfrey, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Kate and Isobel
...*There are only two damsels in this tale; all variations were simply for ease of writing.
Once Kate and Isabella went
To see the pretty fields of Gwent
And traipse through forest shade
They packed a...
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Categories:
palfrey, character, friend, girl, hero,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Birds Without Wings
...On your imaginary forces work
now seen a place with
Three legged animals with a soft palfrey canter
Air floating fish seen and their no need of water
The lovely birds flying would no need of wing...
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Categories:
palfrey, imagination,
Form: Light Verse