Isaac Watts (1674 - 1768)
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (b. 1807-d. 1882)

Chaucer
1     An old man in a lodge within a park; 
2         The chamber walls depicted all around 
3         With portraitures of huntsman, hawk, and hound, 
4         And the hurt deer. He listeneth to the lark, 
5     Whose song comes with the sunshine through the dark 
6         Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound; 
7         He listeneth and he laugheth at the sound, 
8         Then writeth in a book like any clerk. 
9     He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote 
10       The Canterbury Tales, and his old age 
11       Made beautiful with song; and as I read 
12   I hear the crowing cock, I hear the note 
13       Of lark and linnet, and from every page 
14       Rise odors of ploughed field or flowery mead.