Short Middle English Poems

Short Middle English Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Middle English by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Middle English by length and keyword.


The World's Joy

This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
when it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how it all comes to naught.
Form: Verse


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   Threesome
    twosome
    wantsum




 
*simply the muse friendz
  but funny y'all ;)


 ("wantsum" is my own 
  portmanteau...wanton&sum)

ORIGIN OF WANTON 1
WANTON [ won-tn ]
First recorded in 1250; Middle English wantowen, literally, 
[adj.] “undisciplined, ill-reared” 
[noun] a lascivious person (in this write; persons)
Form: Epigram

Remiscient of Concupiscient

Concupiscent is from Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin concupiscentia, from Latin concupiscens, concupiscent-, present participle of concupiscere, inchoative of concupere, to desire strongly : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + cupere, to desire.


Memories come back and are reminiscent,
Of being highly effective and self-sufficient;
Did adapt,
With no mishap,
Also, as well as efficient and concupiscent.

Jim Horn
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Form: Limerick

Yahya

Do you know Yahya name means what? John! Go and see statistics for John

Please note that John = the Arabic name Yahya ( masc. proper name, Middle English Jon, Jan (mid-12c.), from Old French Jan, Jean, Jehan (Modern French Jean), from Medieval Latin Johannes, an alteration of Late Latin Joannes, from Greek Ioannes, from Hebrew Yohanan (longer form y'hohanan), said to mean literally "Jehovah has favored" or "Jah is gracious," from hanan "he was gracious." )
Form: Monoku

E-N-G-L-I-S-H

A Germanic Language
Second most spoken in the world
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
From Angles were Engles
Whose language was Englisc
Thus from Europe
ENGLISH was born!
Traveling through inscriptions
Alphabets
Borrowed words
In Norms
In French
Named Old English
Middle English
Modern English
And now with many
Descendants
English in the Pacific
by whaling ships and colonizers
Official language of the islands
Meshed with island vocabulary
English has become a legend in our vocabulary


Roaming

I
What weather will welcome roaming?
Any, if it's sunny, she says
Off they go, Thomas Hardy tales recalling ...
Roaming the veld, let me count the ways -

II
If we were cattle, we would range
If we were bandits we would rove -
No roots in "Rome," that's strange?
R O A M, it's a word for today, by Jove!

III
Students would read the root word is "roven"
Way back from 1300, Middle English, I'd say
A word, if attended, becomes like one chosen
Revealing history while "rambling" today
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Form: Quatrain

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