Dream vision, elegy · late 14th century

Pearl (Middle English text)

The Pearl

by Gawain Poet

The original Middle English text of the dream-vision elegy, in 101 twelve-line stanzas of interlocking rhyme and alliteration. A bereaved father falls asleep by the grave of his lost pearl and sees her, transfigured, across a stream in the heavenly city.

Contents · 20 parts

• I60 lines
• II60 lines
• III60 lines
• IV60 lines
• V60 lines
• VI60 lines
• VII60 lines
• VIII59 lines
• IX60 lines
• X60 lines
• XI60 lines
• XII60 lines
• XIII60 lines
• XIV60 lines
• XV72 lines
• XVI60 lines
• XVII60 lines
• XVIII60 lines
• XIX60 lines
• XX60 lines

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