English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500

The flower and the leaf

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 [Dubious author]; Harwood, E. (Edith), 1866-1926 [Illustrator]· 2 chapters· 5,320 words

[letter: W] When that Phebus his chaire of gold so hie [leaf] Hadde whirled up the sterrie sky alofte, [leaf] And in the Boole was entred certainely: [leaf] When shoures sweet of raine discended softe, [leaf] Causing the ground, fele times & ofte, [leaf] Up for to give many an...

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1. Part 1

[letter: W] When that Phebus his chaire of gold so hie [leaf] Hadde whirled up the sterrie sky alofte, [leaf] And in the Boole was entred certainely: [leaf] When shoures sweet o...

2. Part 2

[letter: I] I dreste me forth, and happede to mete anone [leaf] Right a faire lady, I you ensure; [leaf] And she come riding by herselfe alone, [leaf] All in white; with semblan...