Geoffrey Chaucer's Poetry, by first line

• The Canterbury Tales

  soon to be linked to the individual parts of the Tales

  1 lines, 1 comment
• Book Of The Duchesse

  THE PROEM
  I have gret wonder, be this lighte,

  1337 lines, 4 comments
• Lak of Stedfastnesse

  Somtyme the world was so stedfast and stable
  That mannes word was obligacioun,

  28 lines
• Gentilesse

  The firste stok, fader of gentilesse --
  What man that desireth gentil for to be

  20 lines
• Fortune

  This wrecched worldes transmutacioun,
  As wele or wo, now povre and now honour,

  83 lines
• An ABC

  Incipit carmen secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti.
  

  185 lines, 1 comment
• Anelida and Arcite

  Thou ferse god of armes, Mars the rede,
  That in the frosty contre called Trace,

  367 lines
• Truth

  Fle fro the pres, and dwelle with sothefastness{.e},
  Suffise thin owen thing, thei it be smal;

  34 lines
• The Parlement of Fowls

  Now welcome, somer, with thy sonne soft{.e},
  That hast this wintr{.e}s wedr{.e}s overshak{.e},

  15 lines, 1 comment
• The Complaint of Chaucer to his Purse

  To yow, my purse, and to noon other wight
  Complayne I, for ye be my lady dere!

  30 lines, 1 comment
• Against Women Unconstant

  Madame, for youre newefangelnesse,
  Many a servant have ye put out of grace.

  21 lines, 5 comments
• Roundel

  Now welcome Summer with thy sunne soft,
  That hast this winter`s weathers overshake,

  13 lines, 1 comment
• A Ballad of Gentleness

  The firste stock-father of gentleness,
  What man desireth gentle for to be,

  21 lines, 2 comments
• Balade

  HYD, Absolon, thy gilte tresses clere;
  Ester, ley thou thy meknesse al a-doun;

  21 lines
• The Canterbury Tales;The Knyghtes Tale

  Som in his bed, som in the depe see,
  Som in the large feeld, as men may se;

  2727 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE MILLERES TALE

  PROLOGUE TO THE MILLERES TALE

  108 lines, 1 comment
• The Canterbury Tales; The Man of Law

  Part 6

  1363 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE SHIPMANNES TALE

  Part 8

  81 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE PRIORESSES TALE

  THE PRIORESSES TALE

  277 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; CHAUCER'S TALE OF SIR THOPAS

  Part 10

  346 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE MONKES TALE

  PROLOGUE TO THE MONKES TALE

  1048 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE NONNES PREESTES TALE

  Part 14

  833 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE PHISICIENS TALE

  Part 16

  354 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; EPILOGUE

  Part 17

  59 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE PARDONERS TALE

  THE PARDONERS PROLOGUE

  785 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; the Wyves tale of Bathe

  Part 19

  1480 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; the Squieres tale

  The Prologe of the Squieres tale.

  852 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE FRANKELEYNS TALE

  Part 26

  1071 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; the Seconde Nonnes Tale

  Part 27

  651 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE CHANOUNS YEMANNES TALE

  Part 28

  213 lines

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