A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow

by Thomas James Wise

2. Saxons and Britons. [A serpent that coils]

Reprinted (the first line reading A serpent which coils) in Wild Wales, 1862, Vol. i, p. 48.

3. The Destiny of the Britons. [Their Lord they shall praise]

These lines were employed by Borrow in the following year as a motto for the title-pages of Wild Wales.

4. From an Ode on Llywelyn, By Dafydd Benfras. [Llywelyn of the potent hand oft wroght]

5. From an Ode on the Mansion of Owen Glendower, By Iolo Goch. [Its likeness now I’ll limn you out]

6. Epigram on the rising of Owen Glendower. [One thousand four hundred, no less and no more]

7. From an Ode to Griffith ap Nicholas, By Gwilym ap Ieuan Hen. [Griffith ap Nicholas! who like thee]

Reprinted in Wild Wales, 1862, Vol. iii, p. 327.

8. Epigram on a Spider. [From out its womb it weaves with care]