Summary The Wind (poem)

the first lines of poem in manuscript dating c. 1520.

the poet opens addressing wind, calling strange being, going wills, , subject none of physical or legal restraints of ordinary human life. after praising power poet goes on compare author, sower of leaves, , jester. asks wind visit uwch aeron [the northern part of ceredigion, dafydd came], and, paying no heed husband bwa bach visit poet s lover morfudd, on account exile native land. wind send poet s sighs morfudd, assure of continued love, , return safely.