fidelity to the living
cerdd arall gan vernon watkins yw
fidelity to the living
tenuous life, i have wronged you. you are the leaves, the sun,
the light, the bird at peace in the sky, though pulled by a
plummet of lead.
out of dark books i accused you. o look at her face: there is spun
a thread of light from her silence: she holds that beautiful thread.
the mother lifts her child to her breast. o what infinite, tender
frailty! she laughs near his eyelids: o, above solomon blest!
the great magnanimous leaves have opened. plucked from their
judgement in splendour,
even now, by the very thread that binds them, they are at rest
heddi ma'r prenne fale plannes dros y gaea wedi impo.
dyma driban gan wiliam phylip (1580 -1670)
er torri brig brenhinbren
a bwyell lem yn syden
yn lle bob cainc o'r bon di-freg
f'all impo deg ar ucen
a dyma diwn o glasciad llywellyn alaw, telynor o aberder odd yn byw yn y ddeunawfed ganrif. yfe rhoddws yr enw i'r tiwn
X:1
T:Difyrrwch William Phillip
M:C
L:1/4
Q:200
K:EAEO
EFGA Bc d2|e2e2dcB2|c2B2B3A|G2F2E4:||
G2GAB2Bc|d2d2c2B2|e2efg3f|e2^dfe4:||
perthyn yr afal, a'r gelli i deulu'r rhosynnod ac mae'r afale bwytadwy gyntaf yn dod o alma ata. ffrwyth llafur canrifoed o gerddwyr yw'r afale sydd gyda ni heddi. y mathe dwi wedi plannu yw
ashmeads kernel, discovery, grenadier, lord derby, lord lambourne, sunset, pig aderyn, saint cecilia, marged niclas a twll tin gwydd. y gellyg yw beth a catillac. afal sy'n dda i weitho seidir yw pig aderyn
fidelity to the living
tenuous life, i have wronged you. you are the leaves, the sun,
the light, the bird at peace in the sky, though pulled by a
plummet of lead.
out of dark books i accused you. o look at her face: there is spun
a thread of light from her silence: she holds that beautiful thread.
the mother lifts her child to her breast. o what infinite, tender
frailty! she laughs near his eyelids: o, above solomon blest!
the great magnanimous leaves have opened. plucked from their
judgement in splendour,
even now, by the very thread that binds them, they are at rest
heddi ma'r prenne fale plannes dros y gaea wedi impo.
dyma driban gan wiliam phylip (1580 -1670)
er torri brig brenhinbren
a bwyell lem yn syden
yn lle bob cainc o'r bon di-freg
f'all impo deg ar ucen
a dyma diwn o glasciad llywellyn alaw, telynor o aberder odd yn byw yn y ddeunawfed ganrif. yfe rhoddws yr enw i'r tiwn
X:1
T:Difyrrwch William Phillip
M:C
L:1/4
Q:200
K:EAEO
EFGA Bc d2|e2e2dcB2|c2B2B3A|G2F2E4:||
G2GAB2Bc|d2d2c2B2|e2efg3f|e2^dfe4:||
perthyn yr afal, a'r gelli i deulu'r rhosynnod ac mae'r afale bwytadwy gyntaf yn dod o alma ata. ffrwyth llafur canrifoed o gerddwyr yw'r afale sydd gyda ni heddi. y mathe dwi wedi plannu yw
ashmeads kernel, discovery, grenadier, lord derby, lord lambourne, sunset, pig aderyn, saint cecilia, marged niclas a twll tin gwydd. y gellyg yw beth a catillac. afal sy'n dda i weitho seidir yw pig aderyn
posted by yscolan at 3:17 PM
2 Comments:
Ceri - thanks for your efforts. I'm in Chicago, learning Welsh, and just started reading Humphrey's The Taliesen Tradition. So I've got 2000 years or so of Welsh poetry to catch up on! Are there any Dafydd ap Gwilym poems that make good songs?
Diolch yn fawer iawn, Chris
i'm sure dafydd ap gwilym's poems will make good songs... somehow. however it's not a field i know a lot about. the cywydd is one of his favoured meters, but really the language is so intricately wrought you'd need to know what you were doing so as not to interfere with the beauty of the word sounds and the general flow.
the cywydd deuair (byr) (and the triban) is an older and much simpler form and its directness lends itself to folk music
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