Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty
...Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, throu...
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Categories:
wol, beauty, heart, relationship, romance,
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...
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Categories:
wol, body,
Form: Free verse