Five Centuries of Polish Poetry, 1450-1950: An AnthologyJerzy Peterkiewicz, Burns Singer |
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... Sweet eye of day , small sun , pure light and true , Please teach our steward how to be like you . You brighten day with beams , but still you share Your power , leaving black night in the moon's care , Since you know nothing lives ...
... Sweet eye of day , small sun , pure light and true , Please teach our steward how to be like you . You brighten day with beams , but still you share Your power , leaving black night in the moon's care , Since you know nothing lives ...
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... sweet din , The town sends out its citizens . Old and young , in twos and tens , The people follow in a herd . Before the bride , so well prepared , Maidens and children throw down flowers . The maidens chant , the children throwers ...
... sweet din , The town sends out its citizens . Old and young , in twos and tens , The people follow in a herd . Before the bride , so well prepared , Maidens and children throw down flowers . The maidens chant , the children throwers ...
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... sweet flag rustles in a few holes ; its roots smell sweet as it shakes off slime , but it follows too . And the moor contributes bulrush and thistles , yellow spears of the thistle lining long roads , and the wide - leaved burdock , the ...
... sweet flag rustles in a few holes ; its roots smell sweet as it shakes off slime , but it follows too . And the moor contributes bulrush and thistles , yellow spears of the thistle lining long roads , and the wide - leaved burdock , the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
TRANSLATORS PREFACE | 25 |
MORSZTYN Zbigniew 1620 ?1690 | 40 |
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15th century angels ANONYMOUS anthology baroque birds Bride bright burns BURNS SINGER Chocim Cracow cross CZECHOWICZ dark dawn death dreams earth Emil ZEGADŁOWICZ English epic exile eyes Franciszek Franciszek KARPIŃSKI Franciszek ZABŁOCKI glow grave Grey horse grief hand heart is sore heaven Hymn Jan LECHOŃ Karpiński Kasprowicz KNIAŹNIN Kochanowski Konstanty Ildefons GAŁCZYŃSKI KRASICKI Lament landscape language LEŚMIAN literary lyrical Maria masculine rhymes Master matters is dancing mediaeval metre Mickiewicz native night Norwid Pan Tadeusz pastoral peasant song play poem poet poet's poetic Poland Polish literature Polish poetry Polish verse political published rainbow raven religious Romantic Ruthenian Idylls SĘP-SZARZYŃSKI shadow silence Słowacki snow soul Stanisław stars stone sweet syllabic SYROKOMLA Tadeusz GAJCY Tadeusz MICIŃSKI Telimena themes translated trees TWARDOWSKI Vilna volume Wacław POTOCKI walked Warsaw Wedding weep whiskers white and endless wind wood written Wyspiański Zbigniew MORSZTYN Zimorowic