|
|
|
|
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WALES Matches Found: 202 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF GLYNDWR'S RISING, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, the moon is crimson, and a mist is in the sky Last Line: For there's many will be sleeping at the falling of the dew. Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen A CHURCH IN NORTH WALES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessings be round it still! That gleaming fane Last Line: Within thy lowly walls, for evermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Churches; Wales; Cathedrals; Welshmen; Welshwomen A FAREWELL TO WALES; ON LEAVING THAT COUNTRY WITH MY CHILDREN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of thy streams in my spirit I bear Last Line: Green land of my childhood, my home, and my dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Wales; Parting; Welshmen; Welshwomen A HYMN FOR ST. DAVID'S DAY (TO THE MEMORY OF SIR OWEN M. EDWARDS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in unison we stand Last Line: A nation's prayer, a nation's praise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Edwards, Sir Owen M. (1858-1920); Memory; Prayer; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The red roofs of caldey are gleaming in the sun Last Line: That the glory of the land they love shall never pass away. Subject(s): Caldey Island, Wales; Peace; Tides; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen A SONG OF THE WELSH, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a race in an island place which rose in the morning gleam Last Line: In a home that is ever the harp of song and legend and fairy tale. Subject(s): Fights; Freedom; Tyranny & Tyrants; Wales; Waterloo; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen; Battle Of Waterloo A SONG OF WALES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, some men pine for the south country Last Line: And the voices out of the twilight—in the land where I was born. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen AFTER GOING BEYOND TALLEY ABBEY IN OCTOBER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever valley road so full of sound Last Line: Turn in his tracks and swiftly steal away. Subject(s): October; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Roads; Travel; Wales; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen AN ELEGY OF HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What time the world, clad in a mourning robe Last Line: Cut off our thread and left us all in mourning. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Mourning; Bereavement AN ELEGY UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read, you that have some tears left yet unspent Last Line: Which best sort with the sorrows we sustain. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Mourning; Bereavement AN ODE RECITED AT THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, JULY 11, 1894, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six centuries ago llywelyn fell Last Line: And, doing this, shall stand and shall not fall! Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen AN OLD, OLD MAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the borderland Last Line: And heavy thoughts that tire. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Wales; Loneliness; Welshmen; Welshwomen ANCIENTS OF THE WORLD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The salmon lying in the depths of llyn llifon Last Line: Are not so old as the owl of cwm cowlyd, %that the proud eagle would have to wife Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are they clinging to their crosses Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Antichrist; Religion - Disestablishment; Smith, Frederick E., Earl Of Birkenhead; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are they clinging to their crosses Last Line: But the souls of christian peoples - %chuck it, smith! Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Antichrist; Religion - Disestablishment; Smith, Frederick E., Earl Of Birkenhead; Wales ARAKOON, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in storms, the triple-headed Last Line: Works against the tide in vain. Subject(s): New South Wales, Australia; Sea; Ocean ARALUEN (1), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: River, myrtle rimmed and set Last Line: Stays, and paints your face for me. Subject(s): Brooks; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Streams; Creeks AT BOSWORTH FIELD, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry 'tudor'...And this ancient dust will swarm Last Line: Deep in their rugged hills beneath the rain? Subject(s): Death; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen AT EUROMA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They built his mound of the rough, red ground Last Line: And unvexed by the lordship of dreams. Subject(s): Graves; New South Wales, Australia; Tombs; Tombstones AUTUMN IN WALES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was a paradise with such a glory spread Last Line: For the gateways of the towy are the gates of paradise. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen BELLMAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oyez, oyez'...I hear him cry Last Line: Clanging his bell as if in town. Subject(s): Bells; Messengers; News; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In murky gloom, in petulant rain Last Line: And wake the yearning soul to praise. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Wales; Fall; Welshmen; Welshwomen BY BENDEMEER'S STREAM, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a bower of roses by bendemeer's stream Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): A Girl's Son Subject(s): Bendemeer, Wales CADER IDRIS AT SUNSET, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last autumn, as we sat, ere fall of night Last Line: Half-glad, half-tearful, as the vision pales! Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen CAMBRIA; AN ODE, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O cambria! Ere in misty blue Last Line: And charm the painter's eye with tints of soft decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen CHANT OF THE BARDS BEFORE THEIR MASSACRE BY EDWARD I, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise ye the sword! Let the death-stroke Last Line: The children of song may not breathe in the chain! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Massacres; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner Subject(s): Christmas; Children; Wales; Nativity, The; Childhood; Welshmen; Welshwomen CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 13. DUNDAGIL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: On lonely headlands at a magic cry Last Line: Beneath the splendor of the dragon star. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; English History CLOUD SONG, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silken sails in silver galleons Last Line: From your merchandise of dreams! Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen COMPOSED AMONG THE RUINS OF A CASTLE IN NORTH WALES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through shattered galleries, 'mid roofless halls Last Line: A soothing recompence, his gift, is thine! Subject(s): Castles; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen CYMRIC RULE AND CYMRIC RULERS, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a cymric nation Last Line: Pass along the word! Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen DAFYDD AP GWILYM RESENTS WINTER, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across north wales Last Line: Than the sea's graveyard. %when will rain come? Subject(s): Wales; Winter DAYS THAT HAVE BEEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Can I forget the sweet days that have been Last Line: In memory of the sweet days that have been. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen DICK FISHERMAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old dick fisherman Last Line: Singing in the rain. Subject(s): Wales; Wisdom; Welshmen; Welshwomen DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS: 21. LAMENT FOR PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone Last Line: Since more him none shall see. Variant Title(s): A Lamentation Subject(s): Consolation; Henry Frederick, Prince (1729-1751); Mourning; Worship; Henry Frederick, Prince Of Wales; Bereavement DOWN CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that miraculous sunset, wonder-spent Last Line: Was that lone caravel that stood to sea. Subject(s): Immortality; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen DRUID CHORUS ON THE LANDING OF THE ROMANS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dread and viewless powers Last Line: Gods are gathering -- romans, fly! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Anglesey (island), Wales; Druids; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Druidism ERYRI WEN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Theirs was no dream, o monarch hill Last Line: Their spirit dwells with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Snowdon (mountain), Wales EVAN TOM, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old evan tom the sexton Last Line: Marching them up the stairs. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Wales; Dead, The; Burials; Welshmen; Welshwomen EXPATRIATES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not british; certainly %not english. Welsh Last Line: Aled and eiddwen, whose blue litmus %alone could detect %themind's acid Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales FAIRY GLEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a place where every wind Last Line: With songs like thistledown. Subject(s): Fairies; Wales; Elves; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FISHING SONG; TO J.A. FROUDE AND TOM HUGHES, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mr. Froude, how wise and good Last Line: Hurrah! For salmon, grilse, and -- dennis, dennis, dennis! Variant Title(s): Killarney Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Froude, James Anthony (1818-1894); Hughes, Thomas (1822-1896); Wales; Anglers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOR A ROYAL WEDDING, 29 JULY 1981, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's all in love and friendship hither come Last Line: Are joyful in the love you share. Subject(s): Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Wedding Song; Epithalamium FOR AN EASTER REMEMBRANCE (TO MEMORY OF HEDD WYN & GWILYYM WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the dead who caught thy word unspoken Last Line: To the glory of the heritage they kept within the night. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Memory; Wales; The Resurrection; Welshmen; Welshwomen FOR THE INVESTITURE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today bells ring, bands play, flags are unfurled Last Line: One song, one prayer—god bless the prince of wales. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Castles; Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Happiness; Singing & Singers; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Joy; Delight; Songs; Welshmen; Welshwomen FRAGMENT OF A SONNET. FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where man's profane and tainting hand Last Line: That load in grandeur cambria's emerald vales. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Farewell; Parting FRANCIS OSBALDISTONE'S LINES, FR. ROB ROY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for the voice of that wild horn Last Line: Through clouds of blood and flame Variant Title(s): The Black Princ Subject(s): Edward. Prince Of Wales (1330-1376); Macgregor, Robert (rob Roy) (1671-1734) FROM PENLAN HILL, CARMARTHEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the town the valley lies Last Line: Limpid stream and laughing water. Subject(s): Carmarthen, Wales; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its summer pride arrayed Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse. Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen GATHERING MUSHROOMS: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A valley and hillside full of helmet-flowers Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Fertility; Mushrooms; Morels GATHERING MUSHROOMS: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A valley and hillside full of helmet-flowers Last Line: Two by two. Too many to count Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Fertility; Mushrooms GENIUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now evening steals upon the glowing scene Last Line: And raise the veil of bright eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Genius; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen GREAT BRITTAINES SUNNES-SET, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soule ore-laden with a greater summe Last Line: My phœbus in his rest hath hid his heav'nly brow. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens GRONGAR HILL, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent nymph, with curious eye! Last Line: Within the groves of grongar hill. Subject(s): Contentment; Grongar Hill, Wales; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen GRUFYDD'S FEAST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the yellow mead shine for the sons of the brave Last Line: That those may rejoice who have feared not to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Grufydd Ab Rhys Ab Tewdwr (12th Century); Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen HALLOWEEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bala lake the wind is high Last Line: On bala lake. Subject(s): Mortality; Shadows; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen HE AGREES WITH HENRY FORD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Llywelyn? Old hat Last Line: Keeps the past's goal %against the balls of tomorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales HE LIES DOWN TO BE COUNTED, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And in tregaron henry richard Last Line: To the boil; who are clothed now %in the indiscriminate mufti of the soil Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales HIS CONDESCENSOINS ARE SHORT-LIVED, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know, he said. I feel sorry Last Line: As most things in wales are %supplied, by english wholesalers Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales HOWEL'S SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Press on, my steed! I hear the swell Last Line: Than live in rayless night! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Howel Ab Einion Llygliw (14th Century); Love; Myfanwy Vychan (14th Century); Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen HYDDGEN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The place, hyddgen; %the time, the fifth Last Line: On the rock the lichen %records it: no mention %of them, of us Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales IF YOU CAN CALL IT LIVING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wales there are Last Line: To the native rummaging among %the remnants of his self-respect Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales IN GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My matins are remembered well Last Line: Yet singing like a thousand birds. Subject(s): Drowning; Sailing & Sailors; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN PEMBROKESHIRE, 1886, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through crested grass I took my way Last Line: The perfume of the dreaming rose. Subject(s): Pembrokeshire, Wales IN THE HILL-COUNTRY, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this massy keep Last Line: Saw where his great soul slept. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Disappeared Persons; Wales; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN THE MARSHES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know in the marsh Last Line: And the waters grey with fear. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Swamps; Wales; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN WILD WALES: 1. AT THE EISTEDDFOD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The close-ranked faces rise Last Line: The deep sea and the soaring hills, and the steadfast omnipotent will. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN WILD WALES: 2. AT THE MEETING FIELD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the complement of what I saw Last Line: Sufficed for all who came, and they were fed. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE VALE OF EWIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was it, stranger, that the patron saint Last Line: Of david and the deeds of other days. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Hermits; Saints; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 1. IN THE VALE OF LLANGOLLEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the fields and the lanes again Last Line: Messages, messages. Subject(s): Llangollen, Wales IT WAS A HARD THING, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot Last Line: It was a hard thing to undo this knot. Subject(s): Wales; Waterfalls; Welshmen; Welshwomen JULY ON THE MOUNTAINS (OR THE SNOWDON RANGER TRACK), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is sultry gloom on the mountain brow Last Line: Like the wing of a snowy dove. Subject(s): Snowdon (mountain), Wales LINE FROM ST. DAVID'S, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sending you this letter Last Line: Importance than all the visitors keeping %a spry saint asleep in his tomb Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales LLYN OWAIN; A LEGEND OF THE VALE OF TOWY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the folded hills Last Line: Come thou again! Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen LYDSTEP CAVERNS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in these fretted caverns whence the sea Last Line: Better the droughts, the steeps, the glare of life! Subject(s): Caves; Wales; Caverns; Welshmen; Welshwomen MADONNA, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made her on his loom of time Last Line: The echoes of a ceaseless song. Subject(s): Cavalry; Wales; Women; Welshmen; Welshwomen MARGARET SLACK AND THE PRINCE OF WALES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "you mothers and fathers, I hope you'll attend" Last Line: And look to the rights of margaret slack Subject(s): Babies;churches;love;wales; Infants;cathedrals;welshmen;welshwomen MOON AND MOONLIGHT (AT CAMBRIA), by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How to dance to your music Last Line: I see you waving back %to your old skeptic Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Moon; Night MORVA (TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL OWEN VAUGHAN - OWEN RHOSCOMYL), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the moon by morva Last Line: And the world's great songs be made. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Memory; Rest; Soldiers; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen MOUNTAIN CHAPEL, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chapel and gravestones, old and few Last Line: This wind was old Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Mountains; Wales MOUNTAIN OVER ABERDARE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this high quarried ledge I see Last Line: This wet evening, in a lost age Subject(s): Aberdare, Wales; Soldiers' Writings NATIONAL AIR: WALES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark, I hear the foe advancing, barbed steeds are proudly prancing Subject(s): National Song - Wales ODE ON INSTALLATION OF PRINCE OF WALES AS CHANCELLOR OF UNIV. OF WALES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is our joyous hour Last Line: Sits wisdom crowned with right! Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); University Of Wales OLD LANGUAGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England, what have you done to make the speech Last Line: Its brisk pattern? When spring wakens the hearts %of the young children to sing, what song shall be Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language; Wales ON HEALTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me, cambrians, tell me true Last Line: "in groves, in shady woods, or dells." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen ON HEARING A.W.P.G. PLAY ONE OF RACHMANINOFF'S PRELUDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frenzied hands at the coffin-lid Last Line: That he died in his grave instead of his bed?) Subject(s): Death; Graves; Wales; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Welshmen; Welshwomen ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, cambria! For the unfettered wind Last Line: Let me not madly stain their righteous cause in gore. Subject(s): Cambria, Wales ON THE WELSH MARSHES, by WALTER STONE Poem Source First Line: The farmer's eyes are dark; he speaks in song Last Line: Mildly, though memory opens like a scar %and in his depths the first iberian stirs Subject(s): Wales OWEN GLYNDWR'S WAR-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw ye the blazing star? Last Line: Was glyndwr's path of light! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Comets; Owen Glyndwr (15th Century); Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen OXWICH BAY, GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night hung heavy, black and chill Last Line: Trailing like some winged bird. Subject(s): Battleships; Sea; Wales; War; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen PEACE IN THE WELSH HILLS, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm is the landscape when the storm has passed Last Line: That such a peace surrounds me, while the city %for which all along has never yet been built Subject(s): Peace; Wales PEN-Y-GWYRDD; TO TOM HUGHES, ESQ., by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no inn in snowdon which is not awful dear Last Line: And so, goes to my children's school and 'umbly makes my bow. Subject(s): Hotels; Wales; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Welshmen; Welshwomen PILGRIM SIGNS: SNOWDON AVIARY, by MICHAEL J. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: We added an easy dozen to our life list Last Line: And each without a hope of progeny Subject(s): Birds; Snowdon (mountain), Wales POEM ON THE DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At least she was riding Last Line: About love Subject(s): Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Love POOL MAIDEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lilies / she lies, she lies Last Line: The heart of her crystal deeps. Subject(s): Happiness; Household Employees; Wales; Joy; Delight; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Welshmen; Welshwomen PRIEST TO HIS PEOPLE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the hills, wantoners, men of wales Last Line: In a crude tapestry under the jealous heavens %to affront, bewilder, yet compel my gaze Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Clergy; Farm Life; Wales PRINCE MADOC'S FAREWELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why lingers my gaze where the last hues of day Last Line: But my soul's quenchless fire, o my country! Is thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Wales; Parting; Welshmen; Welshwomen RED VALLEY, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I saw a ploughman go Last Line: We keep their sacrament with bread. Subject(s): Death; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen RESERVOIRS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places in wales I don't go Last Line: Elbowing our language %into the grave that we have dug for it Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales RHODRI, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rhodri theophilus owen, %nothing welsh but the name Last Line: To patch up the family stocking, %emblem of a nation's despair Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales RIDDLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From belsen a crate of gold teeth Subject(s): Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Courts & Courtiers; Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens RISING OF GLYNDWR, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder-browed and shaggy-throated Last Line: With the menace of that crowd, %that thronged the dark, huge as a thundercloud Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales ROADS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love roads Last Line: And their brief multitude Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Roads; Wales RURAL WALKS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! May I ever pass my happy hours Last Line: "and every landscape charms my youthful breast." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen SHORELINE AT CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning shoreline: a scattering of birds blackens the sky Last Line: And I'm out standing on the deck trying to capture this but it's %not possible Subject(s): Birds; Cambria, Wales; Gulls; Nature; Seashore SILENCE, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night on her couch of the mountains Last Line: For the love of a child that is dead. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cold; Death; Heaven; Rest; Wales; Dead, The; Paradise; Welshmen; Welshwomen SIR GELLI MEURIG (ELIZABETHAN), by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagine it, a land Last Line: In the bracken could have remained %humble but free Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales SMALL WINDOW, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wales there are jewels Last Line: With their breathing, though sublime %and inexhaustible the view Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales SOMEWHERE TO GO FOR A LAUGH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not from these parts Last Line: To preferment - rural dean %of the bottom hundred I have known him called Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales SONNET: ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought his royal person did foretell Last Line: Of her o'er-daring and insulting pride. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) SONNET: TO HIS ENTOMBED BODYE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sume for thy sake prowed monnuments will frame Last Line: That future tymes shall eccho to the same. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) ST GOVAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St govan he built him a cell Last Line: As his cell by that sounding sea? Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Soul; Wales; Dead, The; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen ST. DAVID'S HEAD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salt sprays deluge it, wild waves buffet it, hurricanes rave Last Line: I hold the measure of you all. Subject(s): Great Britain - History; St. David's Head, Wales; English History ST. WINIFRED'S WELL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it, gwen, my girl? Why do you hover and haunt me Last Line: . . . . . . . . Subject(s): St. Winifred's Well (shrine), Wales SUMMER IN WALES, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lean on the lichen-dappled stone-made wall Last Line: For the shepherd speaks with the voice of a bird. Subject(s): Summer; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen SUMMER PLACE: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm out front, first light spotted Last Line: In the water, turning it silver like a boiling chandelier Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Paintings And Painters; Summer; Sun TALIESIN'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from time departed yet floats thy hills among Last Line: "to which the harp of mona's woods by freedom's hand was strung!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Taliesin; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE ARTIST ON PENMAENMAWR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That first september day was blue and warm Last Line: Among the snowy gulls and summer spray.' Subject(s): September; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE ASCENT OF SNOWDON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How merrily they plied the alpine staff Last Line: And caught and kiss'd the wandering thistle-seeds. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Snowdon (mountain), Wales THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Last Line: Night. Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Patriotism; Poetry & Poets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE CAMBRIAN IN AMERICA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the last flush of eve is dying Last Line: Look on his own blue hills and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: ELINOR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more to daily toil, once more to wear Last Line: And fit the faithful penitent for heaven. Subject(s): Australia; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Repentance; English; Penitence THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: FREDERIC, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I turn me? Whither shall I bend Last Line: Shall heal my soul, and my last days be peace. Subject(s): Fear; New South Wales, Australia; Pain; Prayer; Prisons & Prisoners; Salvation; Suffering; Misery THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: HUMPHREY AND WILLIAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See'st thou not, william, that the scorching sun Last Line: And humphrey gets more good from guilt than glory. Subject(s): Comfort; England; Exiles; New South Wales, Australia; Pleasure; Prisons & Prisoners; Story-telling; English THE CONVICTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES: JOHN, SAMUEL, AND RICHARD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a calm pleasant evening, the light fades away Last Line: You drink up your grog and be merry together. Subject(s): Friendship; Judgments; Memory; New South Wales, Australia; Prisons & Prisoners; Soldiers; Story-telling THE DYING BARD, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dinas emlinn, lament; for the moment is nigh Last Line: Farewell, my loved harp! My last treasure, farewell! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE DYING BARD'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hall of harps is lone tonight Last Line: Winds! Bear the spoiler one more tone of pride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Massacres; Prophecy & Prophets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE EVERLASTING ARMS, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tides of death go swiftly home Last Line: Transfigured in his gaze. Subject(s): Death; Wales; World War I; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen; First World War THE FAIR ISLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of the fair isle! Forget not the time Last Line: Who died for the crown of the beautiful isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Great Britain; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE GREEN ISLES OF OCEAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are they, those green fairy islands Last Line: For the guide to those realms of the blessed is death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Druids; Superstition; Wales; Druidism; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE HALL OF CYNDDYLAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hall of cynddylan is gloomy to-night Last Line: The pathway is short to the grave of my chief! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE HARP OF WALES; INSCRIBED RUTHIN WELSH LITERARY SOCIETY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the mountain-land! Sound forth again Last Line: Thou noble harp! Thy tones are not to cease! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Wales; Lyres; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE HEATH-COCK, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morrow to thy sable beak Last Line: Thou art already on the wing. Variant Title(s): The Black Cock Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; Cocks THE HILLS OF WALES (TO MEMORY OF THOMAS ELLIS & M. LLEWELYN WILLIAMS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly the ages come and go Last Line: The hills remain. Subject(s): Memory; Mountains; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen THE HIRLAS HORN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fill high the blue hirlas, that shines like the wave Last Line: And owain's rich hirlas be filled to their fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Owain Cyfeiliog (1130-1197); Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE LAMENT OF LLYWARCH HEN [LLYWARCH THE AGED], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bright hours return, and the blue sky is ringing Last Line: I turn from heaven's light, for it smiles on your grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE LAMENTATION OF RICHMOND; SONNET, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to a lampe whose flaiminge light is dead Last Line: Synce my astreas flyght unto the skye Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) THE MEETING OF THE BARDS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where met our bards of old? - the glorious throng Last Line: In the sun's face, beneath the eye of light! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Bards; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE MOUNTAIN FIRES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light the hills! Till heaven is glowing Last Line: "be her mighty unforgot!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Beltane Fires Subject(s): Fire; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE MOUNTAINS OF GLAMORGAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains of glamorgan Last Line: That look towards the sea. Subject(s): Mountains; Mystery; Nature; Wales; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Welshmen; Welshwomen THE NORMAN HORSE-SHOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red glows the forge in stirguil's bounds Last Line: Save of the fairies' emerald ring. Subject(s): Cavalry; Horseshoes; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This princely crowne, the marke of monarchye Last Line: Which old sawes saye turnes to a summers woonder. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Tournaments THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE PRINCES .. ELIZABETHS GRACE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When greife with mutiny disturbs the hart Last Line: The cheefest jewell of the famous rheyne Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE QUEENES MAJESTYE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If sorrow comment on a text of woe Last Line: In that your sonne lives with the king of kings? Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) THE OLYMPIAN CATASTROPHE: TO THE READER, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No praise for poesie do I affect Last Line: Which antheam sunge, my muse for ever sleepes Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) THE PASSING OF LLWELYN AP GRUFFYDD, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds athwart the mountains moaned and wept Last Line: Of bondage, through a yoke of crimson spears. Subject(s): Llyewelyn Ap Gruffud (d. 1282); Wales; War; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE PLOUGHMAN (IN WELSH UPLANDS), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here did his fathers live and pass Last Line: And burned and died amid the spears. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE RAIDERS' REWARD, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bards of ancient cambria, string your harps anew Last Line: Gave to both the colleges proctors of their own! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE REIGN OF DECEMBER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In winter awful, lovely in the spring Last Line: To mirth and hospitality. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): December; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE RIDER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He rode out over the moorland Last Line: And his ears were stopped with clay. Subject(s): Travel; Wales; Wandering & Wanderers; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE RIVER CLWYD IN NORTH WALES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cambrian river! With slow music gliding Last Line: Brightly its waves may reach their parentdeep at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Clwyd (river), Wales; Spring; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE ROADMAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is a man with stubbled, lean, grey face Last Line: Whether I keep a road clean ... For anyone. Subject(s): Cleanliness; Labor & Laborers; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Wales; Work; Workers; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE ROCK OF CADER IDRIS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay on that rock where the storms have their dwelling Last Line: When the sense which gives soul to her beauty was won! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cader Idris (mountain), Wales THE SANCTUARY, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands 'mid sacramental hills, unseen Last Line: The heart of his dear country beat and beat. Subject(s): Sanctuaries; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE SCENES OF CONWAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the banks of the conway with rapture I strayed Last Line: For memory their charms will renew. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Conway (river), Wales THE SEA-SONG OF GAFRAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch ye well! The moon is shrouded Last Line: On the dark wave! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE SONG OF DAVYDD THE BARD, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My prince has fled to ireland Last Line: Who swing from the gallows-tree. Subject(s): Wales; War; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owen's praise demands my song Last Line: Despair and honourable death. Subject(s): Owain Gwynedd, King Of North Wales; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE VALE OF CLWYD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely vale is cambria's pride Last Line: And with profusion bless the vale. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE WELSH SEA, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out across carnarvon bay Last Line: And call across the years. Subject(s): Sea; Wales; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A CARDIGANSHIRE SHEPHERD-POET (A GREETING), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the cistercian, who fled Last Line: Bringeth his flock to fold. Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Wales; Nightmares; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A SON OF WALES, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since first I saw your mountains long ago Last Line: Lest freedom's self reel to a blood-red grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Wales; War; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A WELSH MYSTIC, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes inspire: they draw their clear conviction Last Line: As I have seen him at your clear windows. Subject(s): Mysticism; Soul; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO HIS DEAR BROTHER COLONEL F.L. MOURNING DEATH AT CARMARTHEN, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If tears could wash the ill away Last Line: Doth starry influence dissolve. Subject(s): Brothers; Carmarthen, Wales; Mourning; Half-brothers; Bereavement TO MY MOTHERLAND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear motherland, forgive me, if too long Last Line: And leave my country naught, not even a name. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO OWAIN GWYNEDD, by MEILIR AP GWALCHMAI Poem Source First Line: I exalt the generous descendent of aeneas Subject(s): Owain Gwynedd, King Of North Wales TO THE MOONLIGHT HOUR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest of the pensive hours Last Line: Welcome to our cambrian bowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Night; Wales; Bedtime; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO THE TORRENT AT THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE, NORTH WALES, 1842, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How art thou named? In search of what strange land Last Line: Over the minds of poets, young or old! Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO VALERIA (A ROMAN LADY BURIED AT CAERLEON DURING ROMAN OCCUPATION), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How came you to this misty, northern isle Last Line: This isle, these mountains and this healing rain. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen TRAETH MAELGWN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue sea; clouds coming up Last Line: We never painted, counting %the few casual cowries %with which we are fobbed off Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales TRIPTYCH MISC., by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freesias are di's favorite bloom Last Line: Hanging from her mantle are several Subject(s): Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948); Diana, Princess Of Wales (1961-1997); Elizabeth Ii, Queen Of England; Property UNDER THE MOON, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the moon to her silver sands Last Line: For a twelve-month and a day. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: DEDICATION TO HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cynthia sitting on her siluer throne Last Line: By more devoteing her vnto your highnesse. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) VARIETY OF WALES, by WILLIAM THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, where with such variety Subject(s): Wales VERSES ON THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES & AKEXANDRA OF DENMARK, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would sing a song of gladness Last Line: Britain's daughter, albert's wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alexandra, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Denmark; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Marriage; Wales; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Danes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Welshmen; Welshwomen VISITATION OF WELSHMEN, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: This morning he takes the car up the hill Last Line: Into the lucent morning. 'all's well,' he says, 'all's well.' Subject(s): Relationships; Wales WALES, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of holy fire! Mother of holy dew! Subject(s): Wales WALES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those white flecks cropping up the ridges of snowdon Subject(s): Wales WALES VISITATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales; Fancy; Welshmen; Welshwomen WALES VISITATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White fog lifting & falling on mountain-brow Last Line: Upward in motion with wet wind Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Wales WALES: A GREETING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild land beyond sabrina's wave Last Line: The ever-climbing footsteps of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Wales; Dead, The; Destiny; Welshmen; Welshwomen WALTER LLYWARCH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am, as you know, walter llywarch Last Line: For warmth together and laughed to hear %each new child's cry of despair Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales WELCOME TO WALES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to wales %to be buried; the undertaker Last Line: Are the lowest, and we offer, %dirt cheap, a place where %itis lovely to lie Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales WELSH, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why must I write so? Last Line: And bear children %to accuse the womb %that bore me Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Language; Wales WELSH HISTORY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were a people taut for war; the hills Last Line: Of a dead culture, we will arise, %armed, but not in the old way Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Wales WELSH INCIDENT, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that was nothing to what things came out Subject(s): Supernatural; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WELSH INCIDENT, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But that was nothing to what things came out Last Line: I was coming to that Subject(s): Supernatural; Wales WELSH LANDSCAPE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: To live in wales is to be conscious / at dusk of the spilled blood Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Landscape; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WELSH LANDSCAPE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To live in wales is to be conscious %at dusk of the spilled blood Last Line: Sick with inbreeding, %worrying about the cracase of an old song Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Landscape; Wales WELSHMAN TO ANY TOURIST, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've nothing vast to offer you, no deserts Last Line: But shame has kept them late in bed Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Tourists; Wales WHEN SEVERN'S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Let not our times halt in their better choice! Subject(s): Severn (river), England; Floods; Wales; Churches WILD WALES: 1. LLYN Y MORWYNION, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By fair festiniog, 'mid the northern hills Last Line: To the enchanted twilights of the past. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WILD WALES: 2. THE PHYSICIANS OF MYDDFAI, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far away in wild wales, by the shore of the boundless atlantic Last Line: I am fired by the fair old tale, till almost I take it for true. Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WILD WALES: 3. THE CURSE OF PANTANNAS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid fair glamorgan's hills the close-set vales Last Line: Of the full noontide sun, our tree of life! Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WITH A ROSE FROM CONWAY CASTLE, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On hoary conway's battlemented height Last Line: Fair conway sends this sweet wild rose to thee! Subject(s): Conway, Wales WRIT IN A BOOK OF WELSH VERSE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the house where I was bred Last Line: Old wars, old hungers, and old tears! Subject(s): Family Life; Home; Wales; Relatives; Welshmen; Welshwomen WRITTEN IN NORTH WALES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Happy regions of delight and joy Last Line: And may my gratitude ascend to heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WRITTEN ON A BRIDGE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When soft september brings again Last Line: And find thee changeless, pont-y-wern. Variant Title(s): Pont-y-wern Subject(s): Bridges; September; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen WRITTEN UPON THE DEATH OF THE MOST NOBLE PRINCE HENRIE, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst my heart bleeding writes that deadlie wound Last Line: Which antheme sung my muse for ever sleepes. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612) |
|