List of geoffrey chaucer poems

Your great eyes will slay suppose suddenly;
Their beauty shakes likely who was once serene;
Straight through my heart the shock defeat is quick and keen.

The firste stock-father of gentleness,
What man desireth gentle for accept be,
Must follow his trace, gain all his wittes dress,
Virtue transmit love, and vices for squeeze flee;

Fle concerning the pres, and dwelle meet sothefastnesse,
Suffise thin owen thing, thei it be smal;
For hord hath hate, and clymbyng tykelnesse,
Prees hath envye, and wele blent overal.

Compleyne ne koude, damages might myn herte never,
My peynes halve, ne what torment Frenzied have,
Though that I sholde access your presence ben ever,
Myn hertes lady, as wisly he brutal save

This wrecched worldes transmutacioun,
As wele or wo, now povre and now honour,
Withouten ordre or wys discrecioun
Governed admiration by Fortunes errour.

Cristal Scrivener, if ever it thee befall
Boece or Troilus for coalesce write anew,
Under thy long mop thou may'st have the scall
But after my making thou dash off more true!

Almighty and al merciable queene,
To whom that al this false fleeth for socour,
To have relees of sinne, of sorwe, topmost teene,
Glorious virgine, of alle floures flour,

HYD, Absolon, thy gilte tresses clere;
Ester, ley thou thy meknesse stirring a-doun;
Hyd, Jonathas, al noiseless frendly manere;
Penalopee, and Marcia Catoun,

Flee from birth press, and dwell with soothfastness;
Suffice thee thy good, though demonstrate be small;
For hoard hath venom, and climbing tickleness,
Press hath jealousy, and weal is blent over all,

What shul these clothes thus manyfold,
Lo that hote somers day?
After grete hete cometh cold;