Poetry Friday: A Welsh Poem

CAERNARVON CASTLE

Nos a Bore

Ar noswaith ddrycinog mi euthum i rodio
Ar lannau y Fenai gan ddistaw fyfyrio;
Y gwynt oedd yn uchel, a gwyllt oedd y wendon,
A’r môr oedd yn lluchio dros waliau Caernarfon.

Ond trannoeth y bore mi euthum i rodio
Hyd lannau y Fenai, tawelwch oedd yno;
Y gwynt oedd yn ddistaw, a’r môr oedd yn dirion,
A’r haul oedd yn twrynnu ar waliau Caernarfon.

Night and Morning

One night of tempest I arose and went
Along the Menai shore on dreaming bent;
The wind was strong, and savage swung the tide,
And the waves blustered on Caernarfon side.

 But on the morrow, when I passed that way,
On Menai shore the hush of heaven lay;
The wind was gentle and the sea a flower,
And the sun slumbered on Caernarfon tower.

 

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Comments

[ellen b.]

thanks for taking me back to Wales!

[:: Suzanne ::]

Oh my! I've been there. Wales is delightful. We got to hear schoolchildren nattering away in Welsh. It was such a treat.

[Ann Baynham]

Diolch yn fawr(Thank you very much!)
The welsh is much more descriptive than the english I think.... I am a welsh lady in England.