Translation of "Ich have y-don al myn youth"

Translation of "Ich have y-don al myn youth"

A Poem by Michael R. Burch

Ich have y-don al myn youth
“I have done it all my youth”
(anonymous Middle English poem)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I have done it all my youth:
Often, often, and often!
I have loved long and yearned zealously 
And oh what grief it has brought me!

Original Middle English poem:

Ich have y-don al myn youth,
Oftë, ofte, and ofte;
Longe y-loved and yerne y-beden 
Ful dere it is y-bought!

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© 2020 Michael R. Burch


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