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19 agosto, 2010


Gentleness



























The firste stock-father of gentleness,
What man desireth gentle for to be,
Must follow his trace, and all his wittes dress,
Virtue to love, and vices for to flee;
For unto virtue longeth dignity,
And not the reverse, safely dare I deem,
All wear he mitre, crown, or diademe.

This firste stock was full of righteousness,
True of his word, sober, pious, and free,
Clean of his ghost, and loved business,
Against the vice of sloth, in honesty;
And, but his heir love virtue as did he,
He is not gentle, though he riche seem,
All wear he mitre, crown, or diademe.

Vice may well be heir to old richess,
But there may no man, as men may well see,
Bequeath his heir his virtuous nobless;
That is appropried to no degree,
But to the first Father in majesty,
Which makes his heire him that doth him queme,
All wear he mitre, crown, or diademe.

G.Chaucer
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3 comentários:

Demian disse...

A este belo poema, te replico com outro, datado de 1904, e interpretado brilhantemente pela banda The Chieftains, chama-se "Never give all the heart", e é assim:


Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.


Um beijo

20 de agosto de 2010 às 00:16
tiaselma.com disse...

Que esse Pai nos dê sempre força para
amar e fugir das fraquezas...

Beijocas na Mateso.

23 de agosto de 2010 às 20:38
Mar Arável disse...

Mais um comboio que regressa

Bj

26 de agosto de 2010 às 16:13

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