THE POETRY OF WALES. EDITED BY JOHN JENKINS, Esq. "I offer you a bouquet of culled flowers, I did not grow, only LONDON: HOULSTON & SONS, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1873. [Cheap Edition.-All Rights Reserved.] PREFACE. PB 2369 THE Editor of this little Collection ventures to think it may in some measure supply a want which he has heard mentioned, not only in the Principality, but in England also. Some of the Editor's English friends-themselves being eminent in literature-have said to him, "We have often heard that there is much of value in your literature and of beauty in your poetry. Why does not some one of your literati translate them into English, and furnish us with the means of judging for ourselves? We possess translated specimens of the literature, and especially the poetry of almost every other nation and people, and should feel greater interest in reading those of the aborigines of this country, with whom we have so much in common." It was to gratify this wish that the Editor was induced to give his services in the present undertaking, from which he has received and will receive no pecuniary benefit; and his sole recompense will be the satisfaction of having attempted to extend and perpetuate some of the treasures and beauties of the literature of his native country. The Day of Judgment. By Goronwy Owain The Immovable Covenant. By the Rev. D. L. Pughe To the Nightingale. By the Rev. J. Blackwell, B.A. The Flowers of Spring. By the Rev. Dr. Emlyn Jones The Circling of the Mead Horns To the White Gull. By Dafydd ap Gwilym... To the Lark. By Dafydd ap Gwilym ... |