Your eyes slay me; <br />I cannot endure their beauty, <br />My devoted heart is wholly wounded. <br />And yet a word from you will quickly heal <br />My heart's wound while it is green. <br />Your eyes slay me; <br />I cannot endure their beauty, <br />Truly, I say, <br />You are the ruler of my existence, <br />Which, my daily dying breaths express. <br />Your eyes slay me; <br />I cannot endure their beauty, <br />My devoted heart is wholly wounded. <br />And so, I plead, I pant, I die. <br /> <br />© April 2008 Anna Maria <br />______________________________ <br />Here is the Original: <br /> <br />Merciless Beauty (Excerpt) <br />by Geoffrey Chaucer <br /> <br />Your eyen two will slay me suddenly; <br />I may the beauty of them not sustain, <br />So woundeth it throughout my hearte keen. <br />And but your word will healen hastily <br />My hearte's wounde, while that it is green, <br />Your eyen two will slay me suddenly; <br />I may the beauty of them not sustain. <br />Upon my truth I say you faithfully <br />That ye bin of my life and death the queen; <br />For with my death the truthe shall be seen. <br />Your eyen two will slay me suddenly; <br />I may the beauty of them not sustain, <br />So woundeth it throughout my hearte keen.<br /><br />Anna Maria<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-modern-variation-of-geoffrey-chaucer-s-merciless-beauty-early-poems/
