Dream vision, elegy · late 14th century (this translation 1908)

Pearl

by Gawain Poet

Translated by Sophie Jewett (1908)

A grieving father falls asleep on the grave of his infant daughter and dreams her transfigured into a maiden of Heaven, radiant among the elect — an elegy of loss answered by consolation, in interlocking rhymed stanzas.

Contents · 20 parts

• Canto I60 lines
• Canto II60 lines
• Canto III60 lines
• Canto IV60 lines
• Canto V60 lines
• Canto VI60 lines
• Canto VII60 lines
• Canto VIII60 lines
• Canto IX60 lines
• Canto X60 lines
• Canto XI60 lines
• Canto XII60 lines
• Canto XIII60 lines
• Canto XIV60 lines
• Canto XV72 lines
• Canto XVI60 lines
• Canto XVII60 lines
• Canto XVIII60 lines
• Canto XIX60 lines
• Canto XX60 lines

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