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The World

© Katherine Philips

Wee falsely think it due unto our friends,
That we should grieve for their too early ends:
He that surveys the world with serious eys,
And stripps Her from her grosse and weak disguise,

Godly Ballants

© George MacDonald

The rich man sat in his father's seat-
Purple an' linen, an' a'thing fine!
The puir man lay at his yett i' the street-
Sairs an' tatters, an' weary pine!

Courage

© Celia Thaxter

Because I hold it sinful to despond,
And will not let the bitterness of life
Blind me with burning tears, but look beyond
Its tumult and its strife;

The Heart

© Jones Very

There is a cup of sweet or bitter drink,

Whose waters ever o'er the brim must well,

Goliath Of Gath

© Phillis Wheatley

SAMUEL, Chap. xvii.YE martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine,
Inspire my song, and aid my high design.
The dreadful scenes and toils of war I write,
The ardent warriors, and the fields of fight:

between the breasts

© Edward Estlin Cummings

between the breasts
of bestial
Marj lie large
men who praise

The Fatal Sisters

© Thomas Gray

Now the storm begins to lower,
(Haste, the loom of Hell prepares!)
Iron-sleet of arrowy shower
Hurtles in the darkened air.

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 04

© Geoffrey Chaucer

'For thilke day that I for cherisshinge
Or drede of fader, or of other wight,
Or for estat, delyt, or for weddinge,
Be fals to yow,

'As wel thou mightest lyen on Alceste,
That was of creatures, but men lye,
That ever weren, kindest and the beste.
For whanne hir housbonde was in Iupartye
To dye him-self, but-if she wolde dye,
She che

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 03

© Geoffrey Chaucer

Incipit prohemium tercii libri.O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere
Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
O sonnes lief, O Ioves doughter dere,
Plesaunce of love, O goodly debonaire,

The Sompnour's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Carrack: A great ship of burden used by the Portuguese; the
name is from the Italian, "cargare," to load

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01

© Geoffrey Chaucer

The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen,
That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,
In lovinge, how his aventures fellen
Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye,

The Man of Law's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer

1. Plight: pulled; the word is an obsolete past tense from
"pluck."

The Reeve's Tale

© Geoffrey Chaucer

1. "With blearing of a proude miller's eye": dimming his eye;
playing off a joke on him.

The Wife of Bath's Tale

7. "But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and
silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and
some to dishonour." -- 2 Tim. ii 20.

The General Prologue

There was also a Reeve, and a Millere,
A Sompnour, and a Pardoner also,
A Manciple, and myself, there were no mo'.

The Knight's Tale

Upon that other side, Palamon,
When that he wist Arcita was agone,
Much sorrow maketh, that the greate tower
Resounded of his yelling and clamour
The pure* fetters on his shinnes great *very
Were of his bitter salte teares wet.

Eclogues

Syke Nigel sed, whan from the bluie sea
The upswol sayle dyd daunce before hys eyne;
Swefte as the wishe, hee toe the beeche dyd flee,
And found his fadre steppeynge from the bryne.
Letter thyssen menne, who haveth sprite of loove,
Bethyncke unto hemselves how mote the meetynge proove.