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Welsh Poems and Ballads

Welsh Poems and Ballads

by George Borrow

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Editor
Rhys, Ernest, 1859-1946
Credits
Transcribed from the 1915 Jarrold & Sons edition by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
PB: Language and Literatures: General works
Subject
Welsh poetry -- Translations into English
Category
Text
eBook-No.
54851
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54851
Release Date
June 5, 2017
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
  4. 4.GLENDOWER’S MANSION .
  5. 5.ODE TO THE COMET .
  6. 6.ODE TO GLENDOWER After His Disappearance.
  7. 7.HERE’S THE LIFE I’VE SIGH’D FOR LONG .
  8. 8.THE PROPHECY [49a] OF TALIESIN .
  9. 9.THE HISTORY OF TALIESIN .
  10. 10.THE MIST .
  11. 11.THE CUCKOO’S SONG IN MERION .
  12. 12.THE SNOW ON EIRA .
  13. 13.THE INVITATION .
  14. 14.THE PEDIGREE OF THE MUSE .
  15. 15.THE HARP .
  16. 16.EPIGRAM.
  17. 17.GRIFFITH AP NICHOLAS .
  18. 18.RICHES AND POVERTY .
  19. 19.THE PERISHING WORLD .
  20. 20.DEATH THE GREAT .
  21. 21.THE HEAVY HEART .
  22. 22.RYCE OF TWYN .
  23. 23.LLYWELYN .
  24. 24.PLYNLIMMON .
  25. 25.QUATRAINS AND STRAY STANZAS FROM “WILD WALES.” — I. — II. — III. — IV. EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH WILLIAMS. — V. THE LAST JOURNEY. From Huw Morus. — VI. THE FOUR AND TWENTY MEASURES. From Edward Price. — VII. MONA. By Robert Lleiaf. — VIII. MONA. From “Y Greal.” — IX. ERYRI. — X. ERYRI. From Goronwy Owen. — XI. ELLEN. From Goronwy Owen. — XII. MON. From the Ode by Robin Ddu. — XIII. MON. From Huw Goch. — XIV. LEWIS MORRIS OF MON. From Goronwy Owen. — XV. THE GRAVE OF BELI. — XVI. THE GARDEN. From Gwilym Du o Eifion. — XVII. THE SATIRIST. From Gruffydd Hiraethog. — XVIII. ON GRUFFYDD HIRAETHOG. From William Lleyn. — XIX. LLANGOLLEN ALE. (George Borrow). — XX. TOM EVANS alias Twm o’r Nant. By Twm Tai. — XXI. ENGLYN ON A WATERFALL. — XXII. DAVID GAM. Attributed to Owain Glyndower. — XXIII. LLAWDDEN. From Lewis Meredith. — XXIV. TWM O’R NANT. — XXV. SEVERN AND WYE. — XXVI. GLAMORGAN. From Dafydd ab Gwilym. — XXVII. DAFYDD AB GWILYM. From Iolo Goch (?). — XXVIII. TO THE YEW TREE on the Grave of Dafydd ab Gwilym at Ystrad Flur. After Gruffydd Grug. — XXIX. HU GADARN. From Iolo Goch. — XXX. EPITAPH. — XXXI. GOD’S BETTER THAN ALL. By Vicar Pritchard of Llandovery. — XXXII. THE SUN IN GLAMORGAN. From Dafydd ab Gwilym.
  26. 26.ADDITIONAL POEMS FROM THE “QUARTERLY REVIEW.” — I. THE AGE OF OWEN GLENDOWER. — II. THE SPIDER. — III. THE SEVEN DRUNKARDS.
  27. 27.SIR RHYS AP THOMAS .
  28. 28.HIRAETH . [167] A Short Elegy.
  29. 29.PWLL CHERES: THE VORTEX OF MENAI .
  30. 30.THE MOUNTAIN SNOW .
  31. 31.CAROLAN’S LAMENT .
  32. 32.EPIGRAMS BY CAROLAN . — On Friars . — On a Surly Butler , who had refused him admission to the cellar .
  33. 33.THE DELIGHTS OF FINN MAC COUL . [187]
  34. 34.TO ICOLMCILL .
  35. 35.THE DYING BARD .
  36. 36.THE SONG OF DEIRDRA .
  37. 37.THE WILD WINE .
  38. 38.FOOTNOTES.

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