John Skelton Never Poems

  • 1.
    With lullay, lullay, like a child,
    Thou sleepest too long, thou art beguiled!
    "My darling dear, my daisy flower,
    Let me," quoth he, "lie in your lap."
    ...
  • 2.
    Parotte.
    So many morall maters,* and so lytell vsyd ;
    So myche newe makyng,* and so madd tyme spente ;
    So myche translacion in to Englyshe confused ;
    ...
  • 3.
    In Autumpne, whan the sonne in vyrgyne
    By radyante hete enryped hath our corne,
    Whan Luna, full of mutabylyte,
    As Emperes the dyademe hath worne
    ...
  • 4.
    WITH lullay, lullay, like a child,
    Thou sleepèst too long, thou art beguiled!
    'My darling dear, my daisy flower,
    Let me,' quoth he, 'lie in your lap.'
    ...
  • 5.
    Pla ce bo,
    Who is there, who?
    Di le xi,
    Dame Margery;
    ...
  • 6.
    Tell you I chyll,
    If that ye wyll
    A whyle be styll,
    Of a comely gyll
    ...
  • 7.
    What can it avail
    To drive forth a snail,
    Or to make a sail
    Of an herringâ??s tail;
    ...
Total 7 Never Poems by John Skelton

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