The Rowley Poems eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about The Rowley Poems.

The Rowley Poems eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about The Rowley Poems.

    The goddes, who kenned the actyons of the wyghte,
    To leggen[49] the sadde happe of twayne so fayre,
    Houton[50] dyd make the mountaine bie theire mighte. 
    Forth from Sabryna ran a ryverre cleere,
    Roarynge and rolleynge on yn course bysmare[51]; 95
    From female Vyncente shotte a ridge of stones,
    Eche syde the ryver rysynge heavenwere;
    Sabrynas floode was helde ynne Elstryds bones. 
    So are theie cleped; gentle and the hynde
  Can telle, that Severnes streeme bie Vyncentes rocke’s ywrynde[52]. 100

    The bawsyn[53] gyaunt, hee who dyd them slee,
    To telle Gendolyne quycklie was ysped[54];
    Whanne, as he strod alonge the shakeynge lee,
    The roddie levynne[55] glesterrd on hys headde: 
    Into hys hearte the azure vapoures spreade; 105
    He wrythde arounde yn drearie dernie[56] payne;
    Whanne from his lyfe-bloode the rodde lemes[57] were fed,
    He felle an hepe of ashes on the playne: 
    Stylle does hys ashes shoote ynto the lyghte,
  A wondrous mountayne hie, and Snowdon ys ytte hyghte. 110

FINIS.

[Footnote 1:  I will endeavour to get the remainder of these poems.]

[Footnote 2:  unseemly, disagreeable.]

[Footnote 3:  wrapped.]

[Footnote 4:  rays.]

[Footnote 5:  hidden, secret.]

[Footnote 6:  broke, rent.]

[Footnote 7:  small pieces.]

[Footnote 8:  pulled, rent.]

[Footnote 9:  vapours, meteors.]

[Footnote 10:  emblaunched.]

[Editor’s note:  Title:  See Introduction p. xli]

[Footnote 11:  Ridges, rising waves.]

[Footnotes 12, 13:  unknown tremour.]

[Footnote 14:  fastened, chained, congealed.]

[Footnote 15:  boundeth.]

[Footnote 16:  swelling.]

[Footnote 17:  armed.]

[Footnote 18:  companions.]

[Footnote 19:  livid.]

[Footnote 20:  a confused noise.]

[Footnote 21:  Anointed.]

[Footnote 22:  enlightened.]

[Footnote 23:  alloyed.]

[Footnote 24:  savage barbarity.]

[Footnote 25:  mystic.]

[Footnote 26:  polished.]

[Footnote 27:  a princely robe.]

[Footnote 28:  defeated.]

[Footnote 29:  warring.]

[Footnote 30:  Like.]

[Footnote 31:  sweet.]

[Footnote 32:  oft.]

[Footnote 33:  a tale.]

[Footnote 34:  assembled.]

[Footnote 35:  revenge.]

[Footnote 36:  heated, enraged.]

[Footnote 37:  Mighty.]

[Footnote 38:  apparel.]

[Footnote 39:  esteem, favour.]

[Footnote 40:  glittering.]

[Footnote 41:  settled.]

[Footnote 42:  help.]

[Footnote 43:  adventure.]

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