Alice Gray Jones Poetry

Alice Gray Jones was a Welsh writer who used the pseudonym “Ceridwen Peris.” Her earliest poems were published in 1874, and she was well-recognized in several literary publications by 1880. She later worked as the editor of Y Gymraes, a Welsh-language periodical. She died at 90 years old in Bangor, Maine.

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Song Of The Worker’s Wife

‘Song Of The Worker’s Wife’ portrays mother’s full nest empties, leaving her hands idle and heart yearning for past days of bustling care.

"My hands are none too white,

Nor lovely nor tender either,

They're rough and ugly to your sight,

Because of the constant labour,

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