Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain green;
for your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain.
By all truth, I tell you faithfully
that you are of life and death my queen;
for at my death this truth shall be seen:
your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Published by Better Than Starbucks, Setu (India), New Lyre (the first poem in its issue), Poetry Hub, Poems for Life, Little Rainbow, and forthcoming in John Donovan Lambert’s anthology Crimson Leaves: Celebrating Romance
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