There are modern English translations of Middle English poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer. A Geoffrey Chaucer bio appears after the translated poems.
Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
roundel/rondel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
......
There are modern English translations of Middle English poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer. A Geoffrey Chaucer bio appears after the translated poems.
Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
roundel/rondel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
......