Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Clwyd, the River | | The River Clwyd | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | From “Poly-Olbion”
DEAR Cluyd, the abundant sweets that from thy bosom flow, | |
| When with my active wings into the air I throw, | |
| Those hills whose hoary heads seem in the clouds to dwell, | |
| Of aged become young, enamored with the smell | |
| Of the odoriferous flowers in thy most precious lap; | 5 |
| Within whose velvet leaves, when I myself enwrap, | |
| They suffocate with scents; that (from my native kind) | |
| I seem some slow perfume, and not the swiftest wind | |
| With joy, my Dyffren Cluyd, I see thee bravely spread, | |
| Surveying every part, from foot up to thy head; | 10 |
| Thy full and youthful breasts, which in their meadowy pride | |
| Are branched with rivery veins, meander-like that glide. | | | | |
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