The Death Of Saul And Other Eisteddfod Prize Poems And Miscella

Being restricted by the Wrexham Eisteddfod Committee to 200 lines, I was obliged to lop away from the bulk of the following poem just sufficient for their requirements. I have a...

The morrow came: the bloody fray began. The sun shone fierce and hot upon the scene. Lashed into fury like a raging sea The wrestling multitude for vantage strove With deadly ch...

And so, through all the toilful hours of thought, He reared a world-wide pinnacle of fame, Whose summit reached, his heart was still the same, Undazed by splendours which his ha...

Written on hearing that J. D. Llewelyn, Esq., of Penllergare, had refused a public Testimonial, the offer of which was evoked by his unbounded charity and unostentatious acts of...

In gladness rolls the river bright Down through the meadow grassy-green, With ripples full of laughing light That wake with joy the sunny scene. From morn till morn, with cheery...

Three mirrors of the usual sort Were gifted once with power of thought; And as they hung against the wall They felt that they were prophets all. The first, a plate-glass o'er th...

Turn we to a lowly dwelling-- One amongst a million dwellings-- Where a mother silent rocketh To-and-fro with down-let eyelids, Gazing on her sleeping infant, While the just-exp...

In the face of thy life like a mirror we see All the lives of true Englishmen shaped as thine own, For the tastes and pursuits which form nature in thee Are the food from whose...

A tear-drop glistened on her cheek, Then died upon the sand. With aching heart, as though 'twould break, She waved her trembling hand. And as the vessel cleft the foam And fled...

A Dewdrop and a Violet Were wedded on an April day; The Dewdrop kisst his pretty pet, Then by the Sun was called away. The drooping flow'r bewailed her choice; "My love will nev...

'Tis everywhere! The babe that sees with pain The look of feign'd displeasure on the face Of doting mother; and the mother who Lays down the babe to rest--no more to wake; The y...