Geoffrey Chaucer's Poetry, by popularity

• To Life's Pilgrim

  FLY from the press, and dwell with soothfastness;
  Suffice unto thy good, though it be small,

  22 lines
• Troilus And Criseyde: Book 05

  Incipit Liber Quintus.
  Aprochen gan the fatal destinee

  1887 lines
• The Love Unfeigned

  O YONGE fresshe folkes, he or she,
  In which that love up groweth with your age,

  16 lines
• Rondeau III

  Syn I fro love escaped am so fat,
  I nere thinke to ben in his prison lene;

  12 lines
• The Complaint unto Pity

  Pite, that I have sought so yore agoo
  With herte soore and ful of besy peyne,

  120 lines
• Troilus And Criseyde: Book 04

  Prohemium.
  But al to litel, weylaway the whyle,

  1705 lines
• Troilus And Criseyde: Book 03

  Incipit prohemium tercii libri.
  O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere  

  1824 lines
• Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01

  The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen,
  That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,

  1094 lines
• Troilus And Criseyde: Book 02

  Incipit Prohemium Secundi Libri.
  Out of these blake wawes for to sayle,

  1761 lines
• Truth

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

  34 lines
• 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
• Virelay

  Alone walking
  In thought plaining,

  43 lines, 2 comments
• A Cook

  They had a cook with them who stood alone
  For boiling chicken with a marrow-bone,

  6 lines
• Merciles Beaute

  Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly,
  I may the beaute of hem not sustene,

  56 lines
• L'Envoy of Chaucer to Bukton

  My Master Bukton, when of Christ our King
  Was asked, What is truth or soothfastness?

  34 lines
• Lak of Stedfastnesse

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

  28 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
• Chaucer's Words to His Scrivener

  Adam Scrivener, if ever it thee befall
  Boece or Troilus for to write anew,

  8 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 MAUNCIPLES TALE

  Part 29

  450 lines
• Good Counsel of Chaucer

  Flee from the press, and dwell with soothfastness;
  Suffice thee thy good, though it be small;

  24 lines
• La Priere de Nostre Dame

  Almighty and all-merciable Queen,
  To whom all this world fleeth for succour,

  253 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE PHISICIENS TALE

  Part 16

  354 lines
• Fortune

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

  83 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; THE SHIPMANNES TALE

  Part 8

  81 lines
• Gentilesse

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

  20 lines
• A Ballad Sent to King Richard

  Sometime this world was so steadfast and stable,
  That man's word was held obligation;

  32 lines, 2 comments
• Since I From Love

  Since I from Love escaped am so fat,
  I ne'er think to be in his prison ta'en;

  11 lines
• Roundel

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

  13 lines, 1 comment
• Balade

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

  21 lines

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