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Romantic Poems
throughout the ages.
(Why not find your own true love through
online dating agencies !)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Balade
Hide, Absalom, thy gilte tresses clear;
Esther, lay thou thy meekness all a-down;
Hide, Jonathan, all thy friendly manner;
Penelope and Marcia Catoun
Make of your wifehood no comparison;
Hide ye your beauties, Isolde and Elaine:
My lady com'th, that all this may distain.
Thy faire body let it not appear,
Lavine; and thou, Lucrece of Rome town,
And Polixene, that boughten love so dear,
And Cleopatre, with all thy passion,
Hide ye your truth of love and your renown;
And thou, Thisbe, that hast for love such pain:
My lady com'th, that all this may distain.
Hero, Dido, Laodamia, all y-fere,
And Phyllis, hanging for thy Demophon,
And Canace, espied by thy chere,
Hypsipyle, betraysed with Jason,
Make of your truthe neither boast ne soun;
Nor Hypermestre or Ariadne, ye twain:
My lady com'th, that all this may distain.
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