Welsh writing in English

In Hospital: Poona: Pune, now the seventh largest metropolis in IndiaPoona (I)

Last night I did not fight for sleep
But lay awake from midnight while the world
Turned its slow features to the moving deep
Of darkness, till I knew that you were furl: to roll up furled,

Beloved, in the same dark watch: any of the four hour shifts during which crew members are on duty (nautical)watch as I.
And sixty degrees of longitude: coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface (Greenwich, London = 0º)longitude beside
Vanished as though a swan in ecstasy: feeling of immense joy; raptureecstasy
Had span: to extend across or overspanned the distance from your sleeping side.

And like to swan or moon the whole of Wales
glide: to move smoothly and often without any visible effortGlided within the parish of my care:
I saw the green tide leap on Cardigan,
Your red yacht riding like a legend there,

And the great mountains, Carnedd Dafydd (1044 metres) is a mountain in the Carneddau range in Snowdonia, and is the third highest peak in Wales.Dafydd and Carnedd Llewelyn (1064 metres), usually spelt as ‘Carnedd Llywelyn’ in Welsh, is a mountain massif in the same Carneddau range in Snowdonia as Carnedd Dafydd, and is the second highest peak in Wales.Llewelyn,
Plynlimmon (752 metres) is the highest point in the Cambrian Mountains, and the highest point in Mid Wales. It is a massif that dominates the countryside of northern Ceredigion. Three rivers have their source on the mountain, the River Severn (the longest river in Britain), the River Wye and the River Rheidol.Plynlimmon, Cader Idris (893 metres) is a mountain at the southern end of the Snowdonia National Park near Dolgellau.Cader Idris and Eryri: refers here to Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales at 1,085 metres.Eryri
threshing: beating or strikingThreshing the darkness back from head and fin: a thin wing-like projection on a fish’s body; anything that resembles a fin in appearance or functionfin,
And also the small nameless mining valley

Whose slopes are scratched with streets and sprawling: spreading or extending in an irregular, straggling and untidy waysprawling graves
Dark in the lap of firwoods and great boulders
Where you lay: past tense of verb to lie (down)lay waiting, listening to the waves –
My hot hands touched your white despondent: sad, dejected, in low spiritsdespondent shoulders

– And then ten thousand miles of daylight grew
Between us, and I heard the wild daws: in the past, western jackdaws (a type of crow) were simply called ‘daws’daws crake: to make the sound of the corncrake’s crycrake
In India’s starving throat; whereat: at whichwhereat I knew
That Time upon the heart can break
But love survive: to remain alive, especially despite some risk that might prevent thissurvives the venom: a poisonous liquid that some creatures, including scorpions and certain snakes, inject in a bite or sting.venom of the snake.