CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.

GLENDOWER'S MANSION .

ODE TO THE COMET .

ODE TO GLENDOWER After His Disappearance.

HERE'S THE LIFE I'VE SIGH'D FOR LONG .

THE PROPHECY [49a] OF TALIESIN .

THE HISTORY OF TALIESIN .

THE MIST .

THE CUCKOO'S SONG IN MERION .

THE SNOW ON EIRA .

THE INVITATION .

THE PEDIGREE OF THE MUSE .

THE HARP .

EPIGRAM.

GRIFFITH AP NICHOLAS .

RICHES AND POVERTY .

THE PERISHING WORLD .

DEATH THE GREAT .

THE HEAVY HEART .

RYCE OF TWYN .

LLYWELYN .

PLYNLIMMON .

QUATRAINS AND STRAY STANZAS FROM "WILD WALES." I.

ADDITIONAL POEMS FROM THE "QUARTERLY REVIEW." I. THE AGE OF OWEN GLENDOWER.

SIR RHYS AP THOMAS .

HIRAETH . [167] A Short Elegy.

PWLL CHERES: THE VORTEX OF MENAI .

THE MOUNTAIN SNOW .

CAROLAN'S LAMENT .

EPIGRAMS BY CAROLAN . On Friars .

THE DELIGHTS OF FINN MAC COUL . [187]

TO ICOLMCILL .

THE DYING BARD .

THE SONG OF DEIRDRA .

THE WILD WINE .

FOOTNOTES.

Reproduced from Borrow’s original manuscript of “Glendower’s Mansion.”

WELSH POEMS
AND BALLADS

BY
GEORGE BORROW

Decorative graphic, Sans Peur et san Reproche

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ERNEST RHYS

LONDON
JARROLD & SONS
MCMXV

TO
THOMAS J. WISE,
Bibliophile, Bibliographer and
Good Borrovian
(at whose instance
this Norfolk Budget
of Welsh Verse
was brought
together).