A thick cloak as high as the house in the glen, an aerial tallow freezing the valley, a crop of frost up the Berwyn, a covering like white salt.
Welsh englyn;Huw Morus;1622-1709
What need for you to be so angry that someone else should like me? Though the wind may shake the twig, one needs a pick to get the root up.
Welsh,traditional verse;seventeenth century?
How happy are the wild birds, they can go where they will, now to the sea, now to the mountain, and come home without rebuke.
Welsh;traditional verse;?seventeenth century?
Englyn and harp and harp-string and the lordly feasts, all these have passed away; and where the nobility of Gwynedd used to be the birds of night now reign.
Welsh englyn;Taliesin o Eifion;1820-1876
Comment: I do like the imagery. These are among the many treasures in Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson's A Celtic Miscellany: Translations from the Celtic Literature.
The Welsh englyn is a meter form that goes back to earliest times. There usually is only one verse making it especially suited to the epigram.
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