title: Oxford Book of Welsh Verse / Blodengerdd Rhydychen o Farddomiaeth Gymraeg (Welsh and English Edition)
author: Thomas Parry
description: Sir Thomas Parry, poet and scholar, author and editor of many books in the Welsh language, was Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1958 to 1969, and President of the National Library of Wales from 1969 to 1977. He died in 1985.
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  # Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edmund O. Jones
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
    
  ALUN.
  
  
  Song of the Fisherman's Wife.
  
  
  An Idyll.
  
  
  Tintern Abbey
  
  
  The Nightingale.
  
  
  
  
  
  IEUAN GLAN GEIRIONYDD.
  
  
    
  The Strand of Rhuddlan.
  
  
    
  The Shepherd of Cwmdyli.
  
  
    
  Why should we Weep?
  
  
  GLASYNYS.
  
  
    
  Blodeuwedd and Hywel.
  
  
  IOAN EMLYN.
  
  
    
  The Pauper's Grave.
  
  
  TREBOR MAI.
  
  
    
  The Shepherd's Love.
  
  
    
  Baby.
  
  
  CALEDFRYN.
  
  
    
  The Cuckoo.
  
  
  GWILYM MARLES.
  
  
    
  New Year Thoughts.
  
  
    
  Who in this new God's acre?
  
  
  IEUAN GWYNEDD.
  
  
    
  The Cottages of Wales.
  
  
    
  Go and Dig a Grave for me.
  
  
  CEIRIOG.
  
  
    
  Songs of Wales.
  
  
    
  Myfanwy.
  
  
    
  Liberty.
  
  
    
  Climb the hillside.
  
  
    
  Change and permanence.
  
  
    
  Homewards
  
  
    
  Daybreak.
  
  
    
  The White Stone.
  
  
    
  The Traitors of Wales.
  
  
    
  A Mother's Message.
  
  
    
  Mountain Rill.
  
  
    
  Llewelyn's Grave.
  
  
    
  The Strand of Rhuddlan.
  
  