Poems

Lament for Chaucer ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable, This landes verray tresor and richesse! Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparable Unto us doon: hir vengeable […]

The Letter of Cupid Cupido, unto whos commandement The gentil kinrede of goddes on hy And peple infernal been obedient, And the mortel folk seruen bisyly, […]

The Regiment of Princes Musynge upon the restlees bysynesse Which that this troubly world hath ay on honde, That othir thyng than fruyt of bittirnesse Ne […]

A Lake And A Fairy Boat A lake and a fairy boat To sail in the moonlight clear, – And merrily we would float From the […]

Allegory: A Moral Vehicle I had a gig-horse, and I called him Pleasure Because on Sundays for a little jaunt He was so fast and showy, […]

Autumn I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear […]

Christmas Holidays Along the Woodford road there comes a noise Of wheels, and Mr. Rounding’s neat post-chaise Struggles along, drawn by a pair of bays, With […]

Death It is not death, that sometime in a sigh This eloquent breath shall take its speechless flight; That sometime these bright stars, that now reply […]

Fair Ines O saw ye not fair Ines? She’s gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down, And rob the world of rest: […]

Faithless Nelly Gray Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war’s alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his […]