Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.
Wales: Caerleon-upon-Usk
Caerleon
Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
From “Poly-Olbion”
Perhaps Caerleon, like Chepstow and Tintern Abbey, should have come under England, as Monmouthshire is now an English county. But as these poems refer to a period when this was not so, their proper place seems to be here.
THEN sing they how he first ordained the circled board,
The knights whose martial deeds far famed that Table Round;
Which, truest in their loves, which, most in arms renowned:
The laws which long upheld that order, they report;
