Francis Ledwidge

Here you will find the Poem The Wife of Llew of poet Francis Ledwidge

The Wife of Llew

And Gwydion said to Math, when it was Spring: 
"Come now and let us make a wife for Llew." 
And so they broke broad boughs yet moist with dew, 
And in a shadow made a magic ring: 
They took the violet and the meadow-sweet 
To form her pretty face, and for her feet 
They built a mound of daisies on a wing, 
And for her voice they made a linnet sing 
In the wide poppy blowing for her mouth. 
And over all they chanted twenty hours. 
And Llew came singing from the azure south 
And bore away his wife of birds and flowers.