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
gay reeds twenties
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.
men white daisies
That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
air foul loud
Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
lasts nine wonder
Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.
To maken vertue of necessite.
And for to see, and eek for to be seie.
holes wit
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
gold herds all-things
But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
wrens
And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
men world persons
If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
wisdom iron-will empty-vessels
Strike while the iron is hot.
Oon ere it herde, at tother out it went.
gold als canterbury-tales
But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.