Taliesin: Trending quotes (page 4)

“I was instructor
To the whole universe.
I shall be until the judgement
On the face of the Earth.”

Taliesin

The Tale of Taleisin

Universe

“Who was confessor
To the gracious Son of Mary?
What was the most beneficial measure
Which Adam accomplished?”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin

“Do not thy passions counteract
What thy lips utter?
Thy going in thy course into valleys,
Dark without lights.
And mine were his words.
And mine were his languages.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation

Light , Passion

“Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest;
Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk.
Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament;
Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin

Time , Sun

“Kings will shudder [that] day,
Woe awaits them!
When the recompenser shall appear,
Let the heaven appear below.
A ruddy wind will be brought
Out to the cinder,
Until the world is as desolate
As when created.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation

World , Appearance

“In manliness he will greet my trouble,
Should I be bled, I should evidently get better;
Truly I saw no one before, who saw not in me
Every indisposition, he will cultivate his business.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Spoils of Taliesin, a Song to Urien

Business

“Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter;
Also pleasant, alliance with a king.
Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding;
Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin

“The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides.
The common people were charmed,
During time proceeding of the men.
The oak, quickly moving,
Before him, tremble heaven and earth.
A valiant door-keeper against an enemy,
his name is considered.
The blue-bells combined,
And caused a consternation.
In rejecting, were rejected,
Others, that were perforated”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Battle of the Trees

Men , People , Time , Victory

“Seven scores, seven scores, seven hundreds of saints,
And seven thousands and seven ten scores,
November a number implored,
Though martyrs good they came.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons

“And entreating his exalted weight,
Under the stars, saints he planted.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons

Star

“Twelve thousand in the convention
Believed through the voice of John.
They worship, they deserve a portion,
In heaven they will not be angry.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons

“Book-learning scarcely tells me
Of severe afflictions after death-bed;
And such as have heard my bardic books
They shall obtain the region of heaven, the best of all abodes.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin

Death , Books , Affliction , Learning

“It is a fit time to go to the drinking,
With the skilful men, about art,
And a hundred knots, the custom of the country,
The shepherd of the districts, support of gates,
Like going without a foot to battle.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Fold of the Bards

Men , Art , Drink , Support

“Monks throng like a kennel of pups
from disputing with the masters who instruct them
whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters
or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Spoils of Annwn

Water

“A hallowed grave in dying, with the grave an altar:
I adore the sovereign lord, the great,
That I be not sad, Christ grant me.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Spoils of Annwn

Sadness , Christ

“The number of saints in scores,
Valiant men, golden their party.
Before kings a career of praise,
Warriors, no one was before them in demanding.
In straits, in expanse, in every need,
May they be a city to our body and our soul!”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons

Men , Soul

“I was nine full months
In the womb of Ceridwen.
Before that I was Gwion,
But now I am Taliesin.”

Taliesin

The Tale of Taleisin

“Pleasant, liquors of the mead-brewer to the multitude;
Also pleasant, a songster generous, amiable.
Pleasant, the open field to cuckoos and the nightingale;
Also pleasant when the weather is serene.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin

Weather

“Perfect was Gweir's prison in the Faery Fort.
Due to the ministry of Pwyll and Pryderi
none before him had entered therein.
In the heavy blue chain a faithful servant kept him
and for the Spoils of Annwfn keenly he chanted
and unto Doom shall continue in bard-orison.
Three fulnesses of Prydwen we entered in:
Save for seven none came up from Fort Faery.”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Spoils of Annwn

Faith , Perfection

“Whence come night and flood?
How they disappear?
Whither flies night from day;
And how is it not seen?”

Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin

Night