Songs of Ukraina, with Ruthenian poems
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SONGS OF UKRAINA
All rights reserved
TRANSLATED BY
FLORENCE RANDAL LIVESAY
LONDON, PARIS & TORONTO
J. M. DENT & SONS LIMITED
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
MCMXVI
Ukrainian Song.... But do you know what the Ukraine is?
Where in Spring the warm wind breathes, bearing on its wings from “Earey” (Egypt) the myriads of grouse and other birds, and into the hearts of the people the paean of love; where the woods are carpeted with blue “prolisoks” and red “riast”; where Vesnianka, the “Lada” of Spring, with the assistance of vovkoolaks and spirits of the woods, is running through the forest scattering bloom, her song echoing over the whole country; where the sun is so bright and gay; where the willow tree in full blossom looks like a great yellow stack, orchards are white with cherry; where millions of nightingales sing all the night long—where Petrus so truly loves Natalka—
Florence Randal Livesay
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CONTENTS
SONGS OF UKRAINA
NOTE BY TRANSLATOR
SONG TO VESNIANKA (SPRING)
VESNIANKA—CHILDREN’S SONG
HYEEVKA—SONG OF THE WOODS
WEDDING SONG CYCLE
THE WEDDING OF MARUSENKA
II
III
VIII
XIII
WEDDING SONGS
SONG OF DEPARTURE: A BRIDE OF BUKOVINA
THE BRIDE’S SONG
THE BRIDE
THE DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING
HISTORICAL SONGS
AKHMET III. AND THE ZAPOROGIANS
BEFORE POLTAVA
COSSACK SONGS
COSSACK MARCHING SONG
CHARGE OF THE COSSACKS
THE YOUNG RECRUITS
MOTHER AND SON
THE CAPTIVES
COSSACK MARCHING SONG
SONG OF VICTORY—1648
IN TURKISH CAPTIVITY
LAMENT FOR MOROZENKO
ROBBER SONGS
THE HAIDAMAKY—“KNIGHTS OF VENGEANCE”
SONG OF KARMELŪK
TCHUMAK SONGS
THE PENNILESS TCHUMAK
RHYTHMS
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
BURIAL OF THE SOLDIER
THE DRUNKARD
SONG OF THE ORPHAN
THE GIFT OF A RING
FOLK SONGS
“MY FIELD, MY FIELD”
SONG OF THE COSSACK
SONG
ORPHAN SONG—THE MOTHER
SONG OF UNHAPPY WOMAN
A GIRL’S SONG
OLD FOLK SONG
THE DAUGHTER OF THE WITCH
SONG OF VDOVÀ—(THE WIDOW)
THE TWO LOVERS
SONG—THE BROKEN ENGAGEMENT
THE DISTANT SWEETHEART
THE ENCHANTRESS
THE DYING SOLDIER
THE ORPHAN’S WEDDING
ON THE STEPPES
IN THE GARDEN BESIDE THE WATER
UNREQUITED LOVE
THE OAK
NIGHT ON THE ROAD
SONG OF THE DANCE
PIGEONS—THE LOVERS
SONG FROM AN OPERA
THE MAID TO HER LAGGARD LOVER
THE TRAMP AT THE INN
LITTLE PETRUS
SONGS OF THE POPPY HARVEST
BALLAD
“GIRL O’ MINE”
YAKIMY—OLD FOLK SONG
AN OLD FOLK SONG
BALLAD
THE KALINA—OLD FOLK SONG
AN OLD FOLK SONG
IN THE FIELDS GROWS THE RYE
AN OLD BALLAD
“KAZHUT LUDY, SHO YA LIKHA”
“I WAS BORN IN A FATED HOUR”
THE SONG OF THE VISITS
KALINA—THE CRANBERRY
OTHER POEMS
THOUGHTS FROM A PRISON
TOPOLIA—THE POPLAR
SONG FROM EXILE
THE RING
WHERE LUCK LIES
THE FLUTE
TWO ETCHINGS
THE RECRUIT
THE HANDKERCHIEF
BEFORE KASTENEDOLA
TO M. D.
UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM
