Today's posts

Today’s poem is ‘An Old Tale of Swan’s Ale’.    Why not something lighter for a change? Today is playtime on Parnassus!

  

I am also going to post the long poem ‘Dorigen’, and today you have the first part. For those of you who have seen it already, I hope you enjoy reading it once more. For those who are meeting it for the first time, it will take you on a journey to medieval Brittany to an age long before Chaucer wrote about his pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.  One of these pilgrims, the franklin, told the tale of Dorigen. This is a version of that story.

Where Chaucer’s rhymes were crying out to be included, I have respected their wishes.