by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343 - 1400)
Roundel
Language: Middle English
Now welcome Summer with thy sunne soft, That hast this winter's weathers overshake, And driven away the longe nighties black. Saint Valentine, that art full high aloft, Thus singen smalle fowles for thy sake: Now welcome Summer with tye sunne soft, That hast this winter's weathers overshake. Well have they cause for to gladden oft, Wince each of them recovered hath his make. Full blissful may they singe when they wake: Now welcome Summer with they sunne soft, That has this winters weathers overshake, And driven away the longe nighties black.
Text Authorship:
- by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343 - 1400), "Roundel" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Frederick Jacobi (1891 - 1952), "Roundel", from Two Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir, Elizabeth Walton Vercoe.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-09-01
Line count: 13
Word count: 91