Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONG OF WALES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, some men pine for the south country Last Line: And the voices out of the twilightin the land where I was born. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen | ||||||||
I OH, some men pine for the South Country, And some for the mellow West, And some fare out on the wide sea For the dreams that bring them rest, But give to me the old road that winds through town and shire Across the bar of the Severn Sea to the land of my desire. II And some men sing of a cloudless sky And the blue of Southern day, Butohfor me the wind's cry At night by a lonely bay, With wreathing mists on the high hills that laugh above the rain Away in the land of the golden heart that I must see again. III Oh, some men go to the ends of earth For a heritage proud and fine, But give to me the deep mirth Of the songs that flow like wine, The old, thatched farm and the peat-fires that glimmer through the night In the land of the little fairy-folk, the land of my delight. IV And there shall I find harping strings And silver rhymes and old, And precious, half-forgotten things, And hearts which grow not cold, And the healing peace of the mountains, and the gleam of the lowland corn, And the voices out of the twilightin the land where I was born. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON WALES VISITATION by ALLEN GINSBERG WELSH INCIDENT by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE by THOMAS GRAY THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT by THOMAS GRAY WELSH LANDSCAPE by RONALD STUART THOMAS A BALLAD OF GLYNDWR'S RISING by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES A HYMN FOR ST. DAVID'S DAY (TO THE MEMORY OF SIR OWEN M. EDWARDS) by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND) by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES |
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