Charles D'Orleans(1391–1465)
The Smiling Mouth
The smiling mouth and laughing eyen gray,eyes
The breastes round and long small armes twain,slender/two
The handes smooth, the sides straight and plain,
Your feetes lite-what should I further saylittle
It is my craft when ye are far awaypractice
To muse thereon in stinting of my pain—soothing
The smiling mouth and laughing eyen gray,eyes
The breastes round and long small armes twain,slender/two
So would I pray you, if I durst or may,
The sight to see as I have seen,
Forwhy that craft me is most fain,because /pleasing
And will be to the hour in which I day—die
The smiling mouth and laughing eyen gray,eyes
The breastes round and long small armes twain,slender/two