THE POETRY OF WALES.


EDITED BY
JOHN JENKINS, Esq.

"I offer you a bouquet of culled flowers, I did not grow, only collect
and arrange them."--PAR LE SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE.

LONDON: HOULSTON & SONS, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
LLANIDLOES: JOHN PRYSE.

1873.

[_Cheap Edition_.--_All Rights Reserved_.]




PREFACE.


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