DPF / Chaucer

For four of my very favorite lines in all of poetry, from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Fourth Edition, 1.

from The Canterbury Tales / by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

        Whan that April with his showres soote
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veine in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flowr

Leave a comment