Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
farewell love-is gone-love
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
heart may hard
Hard is the heart that loveth nought In May.
book hem march
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
devil damnation way
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
truth men may
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
sauce woe culinary
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
canterbury-tales middle-english canterbury
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
birthday time men
Time and tide wait for no man.
men clerks oratory
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
abstinence approved
Abstinence is approved of God.
grief heart flesh
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
men may
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
pain rain heaven
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.