Representative Poetry Online
On this day: November 24th
Random Poem of the Day
2thoncsnotturra than him tharf sie
3to ymbhycggannae aer his hiniongae
4huaet his gastae godaes aeththa yflaes
5aefter deothdaege doemid uueorthae.
wiser in thought than him who, by need,
ponders, before his going hence,
what good and evil within his soul,
after his day of death, will be judged.]
Notes
1] The English translation is modified from that in A Literary History of England, edited by Albert C. Baugh (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1948): 44. Dobbie argues reasonably that the abbreviation in this line should be expanded as "there" rather than "them" (53). Back to Line