Patriotic Song: A book of English verse, being an anthology of the patriotic poetry of the British Empire, from the defeat of the Spanish Armada till the death of Queen Victoria
General
Patriotic Song: A book of English verse, being an anthology of the patriotic poetry of the British Empire, from the defeat of the Spanish Armada till the death of Queen Victoria
English poetry; Patriotic poetry, English
13-14. _Gloster._ _Mortimer._ English nobles and Lords
of the Welsh Marches.
28. _Hoel._ King of Brittany and nephew of King Arthur.
_Llewellyn._ A famous Welsh prince of the eleventh
century.
29. _Cadwallo._ King of North Wales in the seventh century.
31. _Urien._ A Welsh hero of the fifth century.
33. _Mordred._ Nephew of Arthur.
34. _Plinlimmon._ A mountain in Cardiganshire.
35. _Arvon._ ‘The shores of Carnarvonshire opposite the Isle
of Anglesea.’--Gray.
56. Edward II. was murdered in Berkeley Castle (September 21,
1327).
57. Isabella, wife of Edward II.
67. Edward, the Black Prince.
71, &c. The reign of Richard II.
83-96. The Wars of the Roses.
87. The Tower of London was said to have been begun by Julius
Cæsar.
89. _Consort._ Margaret of Anjou.
_father._ Henry V.
90. _meek usurper._ Henry VI.
93. The silver boar was the badge of Richard III.
115. Queen Elizabeth.
121. _Taliessin._ A Welsh bard of the sixth century.
126. Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_.
128. Shakespeare’s plays.
131. Milton.
133. ‘The succession of poets after Milton’s time.’--Gray.
CXX
_Poetical Works_ (1832). Bodryddan is near Rhuddlan, in Flintshire.
CXXI-CXXII
_Works, with a Memoir_ (Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1839). As to the first,--
l. 2. _Hirlas._ From ‘hir,’ long, and ‘glas,’ blue or azure.
14. Eryri is the Welsh name for the Snowdon Mountains.
As to the second,--
Prince Madog, a natural son of Llywelyn, was the leader of the Welsh
Rebellion (1294-1295), occasioned by the levying of taxes by Edward I.
to pay for his projected expedition to Gascony.
CXXIII
_Poems_ (Roberts, 1869). Translated from the Welsh.
l. 1. _Glyndwr._ Owain ap Gruffydd, commonly called Owen Glendower
(1359?-1416?), joined the Percies and Mortimers in their rebellion
against Henry IV.
CXXIV
From the Ode written at the request of the Llywelyn Memorial Committee
(Bangor: Jarvis & Foster, 1895). By permission of the author. Llywelyn
ap Gruffydd (died 1282) was the last champion of Welsh liberty.
l. 29. _Lloegrian._ Lloegria was one of the ancient names of
Britain.
40. _Cwmhir._ Cwmhir Abbey in Radnorshire.
67. _Iorwerth’s happier son._ Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (died 1240),
commonly called Llywelyn the Great.
CXXV
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