CONTENTS

Pagan Songs— PAGE
Kupalo (Fragment) [21]
Song to Vesnianka (Fragment) [23]
Vesnianka—Children’s Song [23]
Hyeevka—Song of the Woods [24]
Wedding Song Cycle—
The Wedding of Marusenka (I-XIII) [25]
Wedding Songs—
Song of Departure—A Bride of Bukovina [36]
Unplaiting the Hair [37]
The Bride’s Song [38]
The Bride [39]
The Day before the Wedding [40]
Historical Songs—
Pan Kanovsky—Song of Feudalism [42]
Marusya Bohuslavka (Duma) [44]
Akhmet III. and the Zaporogians [47]
Before Poltava [49]
Time of Tartar Invasion (Fragment) [52]
The Song of Bida [52]
Cossack Songs—
Cossack Marching Song [55]
Charge of the Cossacks [56]
The Young Recruits [57]
Mother and Son [58]
The Captives [60]
Cossack Marching Song [62]
Song of Victory—1648 [63]
In Turkish Captivity [65]
Lament for Morozenko [67]
Robber Songs—
The Death of Dobush [69]
Song of the Oprishki (Outlaws) [74]
The Haidamaky—“Knights of Vengeance” [75]
Song of Karmelūk [76]
Tchumak Songs—
Khustina—The Betrothal Kerchief (Shevchenko) [78]
The Penniless Tchumak [81]
Rhythms—
Mother and Daughter [83]
Burial of the Soldier [85]
The Drunkard [86]
Song of the Orphan [87]
The Gift of a Ring [89]
Folk Songs—
“My Field, My Field” (Fragment) [90]
Song of the Cossack [91]
I walked along the River Bank [92]
Orphan Song [93]
Song of Unhappy Woman [93]
A Girl’s Song [94]
O Wild Horses [95]
The Daughter of the Witch (Variant) [96]
Song of Vdovà—The Widow [98]
The Two Lovers (Fragment) [99]
The Broken Engagement [99]
The Distant Sweetheart [100]
The Enchantress [101]
The Dying Soldier [102]
The Orphan’s Wedding [104]
Moonlight [106]
On the Steppes [107]
In the Garden beside the Water [109]
Unrequited Love [110]
The Oak [110]
Night on the Road [112]
Song of the Dance [113]
Pigeons—The Lovers [114]
Song from an Opera [115]
The Maid to her Laggard Lover [116]
The Tramp at the Inn [116]
Little Petrus [118]
Songs of the Poppy Harvest [119]
Here is a Hill [120]
“Girl o’ Mine” (Variant) [123]
Yakimy [124]
Grass rustling in the Breeze [126]
Playing on the Flute was Ivan [128]
The Kalina [130]
As the Cherry glows in the Garden [131]
In the Fields grows the Rye [132]
Mela, farewell [133]
“Kazhut Ludy” [136]
By Dunai’s Waters [137]
“I was born in a Fated Hour” [138]
The Song of the Visits [140]
“Wasylki”—Song of the Dance [141]
Kalina—The Cranberry [143]
Other Poems—
Thoughts from a Prison (Shevchenko) [147]
Topolia—The Poplar (Shevchenko) [148]
Song from Exile (Rudansky) [156]
The Ring (Vorobkievich) [158]
Poems by Fedkovich—
Where Luck Lies [160]
The Flute [161]
Two Etchings: I. Holy Eve [164]
II. In Church [164]
The Recruit [165]
The Handkerchief [167]
Before Kastenedola [168]
To M. D. [170]
Ukrainian National Anthem [172]