Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

    O yonge fresshe folkes, he or she,
    In which that love up-groweth with your age,
    Repeyreth hoom fro worldly vanitee,
    And of your herte up-casteth the visage
    To thilke God that after his image
    Yow made, and thynketh al nis but a faire
    This world, that passeth sone as floures faire.
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    Short was his gowne, with sleves longe and wyde.
    Wel koude he sitte on hors and faire ryde.
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
    The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
    And bathed every veyne in swich licour
    Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
    Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
    Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)