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Taliesin est une figure importante de la mythologie celtique et de la littérature galloise, c’est à la fois un poète historique du VIe siècle et un barde mythique de la littérature galloise. Il n’est pas toujours aisé de les différencier d’autant que le dernier est parfois assimilé à Myrddin. Son nom est aussi associé au Livre de Taliesin, un recueil de poèmes manuscrits du Xe siècle mais dont la composition serait contemporaine du barde historique. La légende en fait le « Chef des Bardes de Bretagne ». Wikipedia  

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Taliesin: Citations en anglais

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

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Taliesin

The Tale of Taleisin

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

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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!”

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

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

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“I saw a feeding about a lion for plants,
I saw leaves of luxuriant growth.
I saw a branch with equal blossoms.
Did I not see a prince? most liberal his customs,
I saw the ruler of Cathraeth beyond the plains
Be my oak the gleaming spirit of the Cymry.”

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

“I was at the Cross
With Mary Magdalene.
I received the muse
From Ceridwen's cauldron.”

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The Tale of Taleisin

“Composed for renown am I, a verse heard
four times over in the four-quartered fort
in the song of the cauldron when first it gave voice,
warmed by the breath of nine maidens.
The Chief of Annwn's cauldron, who finished
the rim around its edge with pearl,
swore never should it cook a coward's food?
A bright flashing sword was raised to it
and it was left in the hand of Llenlleawc
and lanterns shone before Hell's mouth's door
and when we went in with Arthur trouble glittered:
Save for seven none came up from Fort Mead-mad.”

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

“To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave.
The world would not be if not for my offspring.
I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful
May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.”

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Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Death-song of Uther Pendragon

“Eagle of the land, extensive thy glance.
I would have requested an active courser
Of vigorous trot, the price of the spoil of Taliesin.
One is the violent course on the bottom and the summit,
One is the gift of a baron to a lord.
One is the herd of stags in their fight.
One is the wolf not covetous of broom,
One is the country where a son is born,
And of one form and one sound is the battle-place of warriors.”

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

“I am old. I am young. I am Gwion,
I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”

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A tradition about Taliesin states that he was once a boy named "Gwion".
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The First Address of Taliesin

“Pleasant, the heath when it is green;
Also pleasant, the salt marsh for cattle.
Pleasant, the time when calves draw milk;
Also pleasant, foamy horsemanship.”

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

“I have sat in the perilous seat
Above Caer sidi.
I shall continue to revolve
Between the three elements.”

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Taliesin

The Tale of Taleisin

“There are three fountains
In the mountain of roses,
There is a Caer of defence
Under the ocean’s wave.
Illusive greeter,
What is the porter’s name?”

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

“Elphin of noble generosity,
Do not sorrow at your catch.
Though I am weak on the floor of my basket,
There are wonders on my tongue.”

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Taliesin

The Tale of Taleisin