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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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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


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


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


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: 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


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 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


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


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