Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Teg-Engle | | Teg-Engle | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | From “Poly-Olbion”
MOYLEVENNILL with her sight that never is sufficed, | |
| Now with excessive joy so strongly, is surprised, | |
| That thus he proudly spake: “On the Gwynethian ground | |
| (And look from east to west) what country is there crowned | |
| As thou, Tegenia, art? that, with a vale so rich | 5 |
| (Cut thorough with the Cluyd, whose graces me bewitch), | |
| The fruitfull’st of all Wales, so long hast honored been: | |
| As also by thy spring, such wonder who dost win, | |
| That naturally remote, six British miles from sea, | |
| And rising on the firm, yet in the natural day | 10 |
| Twice falling, twice doth fill, in most admired wise. | |
| When Cynthia from the east unto the south doth rise, | |
| That mighty Neptune flows, then strangely ebbs thy well; | |
| And when again he sinks, as strangely she doth swell.” | | | | |
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