Revue celtique - National Library of Scotland

j4 Aîtodiad y Lyfryddiaetli y Cymry.
« 1 left no calling for this idle trade —
No Duty broke — no Parent disobey'd —
While yet a Child —ère yet a Fool to Famé,
I lisp'd in numbers — for the numbers came. »
Carmarthen, Printed by John Ross. M,DCC,XCVI. 410.
It consists of 39 pages of verse, with 8 of « Dedicatory Address, « a list
of subscribers, and errata. Some of the pièces are imitations of Petrarch,
Metastasio, and Shenstone.
88. Conway Castle, a Poem. 4to, pp. 20.
No author's name, date, or imprint. It appeared probably about 1780, the
style of printing being almost precisely the same as that of No. 89, which was
published in 1773'. Besides « Conway Castle », the pamphlet contains — « To
the Memory of the late Earl of Chatham » (who died in 1778), and « Why
the Moon is like a Fashionable Wife. « The author states that he « hath
made trial of a form of versification, that might imitate, in some respects, the
elegiac measure of the Greeks and Romans. » The following are the opening
stanzas, which may serve as a spécimen of the mètre :
« Conway, deserted pile, in whose exhausted halls
The discontented winds fresh wrath engender,
Whose figure knightiy times to Fancy oft recalls,
Take the sole boon a passenger can render,
« Who to thy tow'rs august in giddy wonder clings,
Thy mien unhumbled by mishap rehearses,
Thine aged arches grey and sea-worn ramparts sings,
A moss-clad battlements, in plaintive verses. »
89. The Tears of Cambria. A Poem. Inscribed to the Honourable
Society of Antient Britons.
London :
Printed for G. Kearsly, No 46, Fleet-Street, 1773 (Price
one Shilling and six Pence). 4to, pp. 18.
The author's name is nowhere given. At the end it is stated that « of the
Publisher of this Poem may be had (pricc one shilling) An Ode addressed to
the Savoir Vivre Club. »
90. The Leek. A Poem on St. David's Day :
most humbly inscribed
to the Honourable Society of Antient Britons (established in honour of
his Royal Highness' Birthday and the Principality of Wales), by N.
Griffith, Esq.
London, 1717, fol.; second édition, 1718.
91. St. Taffey's Day: or the Cambro-British Gamboles. In three
merry cantos. By C. L. a true Briton.
London, 1724, folio.