Geoffrey Chaucer's Poetry, by title

• A Ballad of Gentleness

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

  21 lines, 2 comments
• 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
• A Cook

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

  6 lines
• A Rondel of Merciless Beauty - The Original

  Youre two eyn will sle me sodenly
  I may the beaute of them not sustene,

  43 lines
• Against Women Unconstant

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

  21 lines, 5 comments
• 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
• Balade

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

  21 lines
• Book Of The Duchesse

  THE PROEM
  I have gret wonder, be this lighte,

  1337 lines, 4 comments
• Chaucer's Prophecy

  When priestes failen in their saws,
  And lordes turne Godde's laws

  17 lines, 2 comments
• Chaucer's Words to His Scrivener

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

  8 lines
• Fortune

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

  83 lines
• Gentilesse

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

  20 lines
• Good Counsel of Chaucer

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

  24 lines
• L'Envoy of Chaucer to Bukton

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

  34 lines
• La Priere de Nostre Dame

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

  253 lines
• Lak of Stedfastnesse

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

  28 lines
• Merciles Beaute

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

  56 lines
• Proverbs of Chaucer

  What should these clothes thus manifold,
  Lo! this hot summer's day?

  23 lines
• Rondeau III

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

  12 lines
• Rondel of Merciless Beauty

  Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;
  Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;

  14 lines, 3 comments
• Roundel

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

  13 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• The Canterbury Tales

  soon to be linked to the individual parts of the Tales

  1 lines, 1 comment
• The Canterbury Tales; THE MILLERES TALE

  PROLOGUE TO THE MILLERES TALE

  108 lines, 1 comment
• The Canterbury Tales; the Seconde Nonnes Tale

  Part 27

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

  Part 10

  346 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; EPILOGUE

  Part 17

  59 lines
• The Canterbury Tales; PROLOGUE

      Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
      The droghte of March hath perced to the roote

  948 lines, 7 comments
• The Canterbury Tales; THE CHANOUNS YEMANNES TALE

  Part 28

  213 lines

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