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
men hands may
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
may literature workmen
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
time may
For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
may dice literature
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
rose legs may
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
men may sake
Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun. . . . . Til that myn herte dye. . . . . That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!
may losing lost
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
way may said
What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
work may
Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
men may lost
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
heart may hard
Hard is the heart that loveth nought In May.
truth men may
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
men may
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
flower rose may
And she was fair as is the rose in May.