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

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