CHAUCER
by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)
- N old man
in a lodge within a park;
- The chamber walls depicted all around
- With portraitures of huntsman, hawk, and hound,
- And the hurt deer. He listeneth to the lark,
- Whose song comes with the sunshine through the dark
- Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound;
- He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound,
- Then writeth in a book like any clerk.
- He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote
- The Canterbury Tales, and his old age
- Made beautiful with song; and as I read
- I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note
- Of lark and linnet, and from every page
- Rise odours of plough'd field or flowery mead.
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