Poems

I picked this up after seeing one of its poems excerpted by a modern author, and I enjoyed reading it but it was a challenge. A lot of these poems are difficult to read due to the way that the words were spelled. Here are a few excerpts for example:

It semde vnhap had him long hatched

In middes of his dispayres.

As one forlorne was he;

Vpon his heade alwaies he ware

A wreath of wilow tree.

His beastes he vept vpon the hyll,

..

Our coostes to them contrarie be thei aie,

I craue of God; that our streames to ther fluddes;

Arrnes vnto arrnes; & of springe of ech race!

...

This saing, sche hir hid in the clos nycht.

Than terrible flguris apperis to my sycht

Of greit goddis, semand with Troy aggrevit

And tho beheld I all the citie mischevit,

Fair Ilion all show more fall in gledis doun,

And, fra the soill, grete Troy, Neptunus toun.

Ourtumbllt to the ground.

Personally I'm familiar enough with Early Modern English spelling that reading the book this way wasn't impossible, but I'd recommend most people find a book with modernized spelling. I think I'd have enjoyed it more if I'd done so myself. show less