The Poetry of Wales

About this eBook

Editor

Jenkins, John, 1821-1896

Credits

Transcribed from the 1873 Houlston & Sons edition, by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Welsh poetry -- Translations into English

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18523

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18523

Release Date

June 6, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE POETRY OF WALES.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.PART I. THE SUBLIME. — SNOWDON. — THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. — THE IMMOVABLE COVENANT. — AN ODE TO THE THUNDER. — THE DELUGE. — THE SHIPWRECK.
5. 5.PART II. THE BEAUTIFUL. — AN ADDRESS TO THE SUMMER. — SONG TO ARVON. — TO THE SPRING. — TO THE NIGHTINGALE. — THE FLOWERS OF SPRING. — TO MAY — THE DAWN. — TO THE DAISY. — THE LILY AND THE ROSE. — THE CIRCLING OF THE MEAD HORNS. — DAFYDD AP GWILYM TO THE WHITE GULL. — TO THE LARK. — DAFYDD AP GWILYM’S INVOCATION TO THE SUMMER TO VISIT GLAMORGANSHIRE, — A BRIDAL SONG. — THE LEGEND OF TRWST LLYWELYN. — THE GOLDEN GOBLET, — THE SICK MAN’S DREAM. — THE FAIRY’S SONG. — WALTER SELE.
6. 6.PART III. THE PATRIOTIC. — MY FATHER-LAND. — MY NATIVE LAND. — ODE TO CAMBRIA. — AN ODE ON THE DEATH OF HOEL. — THE DEATH OF OWAIN. — RODERIC’S LAMENT. — THE BATTLE OF GWENYSTRAD. — TALIESIN’S PROPHECY. {86} — THE MONARCHY OF BRITAIN. {87c} — FAREWELL TO WALES. — THE CASTLES OF WALES. — THE EISTEDDFOD, — LLYWARCH HEN’S LAMENT ON CYNDDYLAN. — THE LAMENT OP LLYWARCH HEN. — THE HALL OF CYNDDYLAN. — THE GRAVE OF KING ARTHUR. {94a} — THE VENGEANCE OF OWAIN. {96}
7. 7.PART IV. THE HUMOROUS. — OLD MORGAN AND HIS WIFE. — SONG OF THE FOSTER-SON, LOVE. — PENNILLION. — TRIBANAU.
8. 8.PART V. THE SENTIMENTAL. — THE ROSE OF LLAN MEILEN. — MY NATIVE COT. — UNDER THE ORCHARD TREE. — THE BANKS OF THE DEE. — GWILYM GLYN AND RUTH OF DYFFRYN. — THE LORD OF CLAS. — THE ROSE OF THE GLEN. — THE MOUNTAIN GALLOWAY. — GLAN GEIRIONYDD. — THE MOTHER TO HER CHILD AFTER ITS FATHER’S DEATH. — WOMAN. — THE FAITHFUL MAIDEN. — THE EWE. — THE SONG OF THE FISHERMAN’S WIFE. — THE WITHERED LEAF. — SAD DIED THE MAIDEN. — THE WORLD AND THE SEA: A COMPARISON. — THE POOR MAN’S GRAVE. — THE BARD’S LONG-TRIED AFFECTION FOR MORFYDD. — THE GROVE OF BROOM. — ADDRESS TO A BIRCH TREE, — THE HOLLY GROVE. — THE SWAN. — MAY AND NOVEMBER. — THE CUCKOO’S TALE. — DAFYDD AP GWILYM’S ADDRESS TO MORFYDD AFTER SHE MARRIED HIS RIVAL.
9. 9.PART VI. THE RELIGIOUS. — FROM THE HYMNS OF THE REV. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, PANTYCELYN. — TRANSLATIONS FROM MISCELLANEOUS WELSH HYMNS. — THE FARMER’S PRAYER. — THE PRAISE AND COMMENDATION OF A GOOD WOMAN. — TWENTY THIRD PSALM. — SHORT IS THE LIFE OF MAN. — CONCERNING THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE.
10. 10.Footnotes:

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