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THE POEMS OF
DAFYDD
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The Earliest Welsh Poems

Twentieth Century Welsh Poems

Living a Life: Selected Poems by Gwyn Thomas

The Plays of Saunders Lewis (4 vols.)

Bobi Jones: Selected Poems

The World of Kate Roberts

Saunders Lewis: Selected Poems

Where There’s Love: Welsh Folk Poems of Love and Marriage

The Light in the Gloom: Poems and Prose by Alun Llywelyn-Williams

Medieval Welsh Poems

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THE POEMS OF
DAFYDD
AP GWILYM

Translated by Joseph P. Clancy

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CONTENTS

Introduction

The Pronunciation of Welsh

CELEBRATIONS, FRUSTRATIONS

A Celebration of Summer

The Seagull

The Girls of Llanbadarn

A Broken Promise

A Girl, A Bird, A Birch Tree

A Preacher’s Reproach

Gilding the Lily

Reassurance

Outside/Inside

The Peat Pit

In Winter, A Woodcock

Aubade

The Goose Shed

In Praise of His Uncle

Anima Christi

The Owl

GWYNEDD

One Night at an Inn

Newborough

A Gift of Wine

Pre-eminence

The Spear

Retaliation

The Mirror

The Black Friar’s Warning

In Praise of Hywel, Dean of Bangor

The Goodness of Providence

Pilgrimage

The Fowler

Denial

Perjury

Appeal

Reproach to His Penis

HEADING SOUTH

In Praise of Ieuan Llwyd

Madog’s Chaplet

A Garland of Peacock Feathers

Lament for Madog Benfras

A Bad Bard

Feeble Courtship

May

A Kiss

The Rattle Bag

Wild Creatures

Haggling

Razzle

Girlnapping

Lament for Gruffudd ab Adda

The Lady of Is Aeron

The Rood at Carmarthen

Lament for Rhydderch ab Ieuan Llwyd

MORFUDD

Affliction

The Sigh

Foster Son

The Dream

The Star

Under the Eaves

The Fool

Complaint

Farewell

Fancying a Nun

Twilight

The Grey Friar’s Advice

Recompense

Cowardice

Devotion

Today

Morfudd’s Embrace

The Vow

Goldsmith

Nuts in My Hand

The Fox

The Briar

A House of Leaves

The Woodland Mass

Love in Secret

A Matter of Months

Ice

The Holly Grove

The Wave on the River Dyfi

Tonsure

Reconciliation

The Woodcock’s Warning

Marriage

Rejection

Infidelity

The World’s Brittleness

Husbandry

EXILE AND IFOR

In Praise of Ifor ap Llywelyn

Incomparable Ifor

Summer

A Prayer to Dwynwen

The Skylark

Hidden Love

A Simile for Morfudd

Suspicion

Three Porters

The Birch Hat

Morfudd’s Hair

A Moonlit Night

The Wind

Ifor Hael

Basaleg

A Gift of Gloves

Farewell to Ifor

DYDDGU

Dyddgu

Dyddgu and Morfudd

Love’s Tears

Longing’s Lineage

An Invitation to Dyddgu

The Roebuck

Wooing Dyddgu

The Tune

A BARDIC QUARREL

A Bardic Quarrel

1. Gruffudd Gryg: Dafydd’s Wounds

2. Dafydd ap Gwilym:

Gruffudd’s Plagiarism

3. Gruffudd’s Reply

4. Dafydd’s Response

5. Gruffudd’s Retort

6. Dafydd’s Rejoinder

7. Gruffudd’s Last Word

8. Dafydd’s Last Word

Lament for Gruffudd Gryg

LOVE’S OBSTACLES

Four Loves

Paragon

Spellbound

Coursing a Hare

The Mist

Waiting in Vain

Forgetfulness

The Window

Winter Wooing

The Song Thrush

The Thrush’s Verdict

The Clock

Lament for His Uncle

A Fortress against Envy

Christ and His Apostles

Lament for Angharad

MORFUDD AND AGE

The Haycock

The Heart

Intoxication

A Wish for Eiddig

Seeking and Guarding

The Sword

Repentance

The Rival

Yesterday

Beauty Marred

Lament for Ifor and Nest

Shadow

The Magpie

Morfudd Grown Old

Love’s Journeying

The Ruin

The End of Love

Notes

Glossary