Armenian Legends and Poems

by Unknown

INDEX TO FIRST LINES

	Author.	Translated by	PAGE
[Above the waters, like a hoary giant]	Hovhannes Hovhannessian	Z. C. Boyajian	60
[Accostarsi all’oscuro]	Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj		123
[A great black bird like to a great black cloud]	Elia Demirjibashian	Z. C. Boyajian	98
[An eagle sat upon the fell]	Shushanik Gourghinian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	51
[Araxes came devouringly]	Hovhannes Hovhannessian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	77
[Armenian maidens, come and view]	Leo Alishan	Alice Stone Blackwell	37
[Belovèd one, for thy sweet sake]	Folk Song	Z. C. Boyajian	1
[Dark forests clothe the mountain-side]	Raffi	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	103
[Day dawned. Bright tongues of scarlet flame]	Haroutune Toumanian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	32
[Do not trust black eyes, but fear them]	Avetis Isahakian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	6
[Farewell, thou Sun, and Thou, O Power Divine]	Bedros Tourian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	82
[Have you ever seen that wondrous building]	T. Terzyan	Alice Stone Blackwell	44
[Huntsman, that on the hills above]	Avetis Isahakian	Z. C. Boyajian	11
[I beheld my love this morning]	Sayat Nova	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	14
[If Goghtan’s bards no longer crown]	Karekin Srvanstian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	25
[I have a word I fain would say]	Sayat Nova	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	35
[I have loved your winsome face]	Folk Song	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	101
[In many a distant, unknown land]			47
[I walk by Mother Arax]	Raphael Patkanian	Alice Stone Blackwell	69
[Like an ocean is this world]	Hovhannes Erzingatzi	Z. C. Boyajian	59
[My heart is turned into a wailing child]	Nahabed Kouchak	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	4
[Nightingale, oh, leave our garden]	Raphael Patkanian	Alice Stone Blackwell	41
[Night with her ebon hair and starry crown]	Derenik Demirjian	Z. C. Boyajian	73
[No bird can reach the mountain’s crest]	H. Costaniantz	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	106
[None await thy smiling rays]	Hovhannes Hovhannessian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	20
[Non fu di fiele abbeverato? Il petto]	Vittoria Aganoor Pompilj		122
[O’er the mountains high he went]	Folk Song	Z. C. Boyajian	81
[O evil man, with passions fraught]	Hovhannes Tulkourantzi	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	119
[Of Armenye, I rede thus]	John Gower		91
[O God of righteousness and truth]	“Frik”		xv
[O God, ’tis not for laurel wreaths I pray]	Alexander Dzadourian	Z. C. Boyajian	43
[O little breeze, how fresh and sweet]	Muggurdich Beshigtashlian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	89
[Once more God hither moves their course]	Saint Nerses Shnorhali	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	58
[O Night, be long—long as an endless year]	Nahabed Kouchak	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	5
[On the morning of thy birth]	Nahabed,,Kouchak,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	31
[O swallow, gentle swallow]	C. A. Dodochian	Alice Stone Blackwell	111
[Slumbering darkly yesterday]	Bedros Tourian	Z. C. Boyajian	84
[Soft and low a voice breathed o’er me]	S. Shahaziz	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	46
[Stork, I welcome thy return]	Folk Song	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	27
[Sweet slumber now creeps o’er thee slow]	Raphael Patkanian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	21
[The clinging children at their mother’s knee]	William Watson		xvi
[The Crane has lost his way across the heaven]	Hovhannes Toumanian	Z. C. Boyajian	62
[The door of Heaven open seemed]	Folk Song	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	3
[The fox ran up into the mill]	Folk,,Song,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	90
[The Hawk said to the Dove, “My dear”]	Folk,,Song,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	63
[The incense at the altar slowly burns]	Zabelle Essayan	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	17
[The lips of the Christ-child are like to twin leaves]	Saint Gregory of Narek	Alice Stone Blackwell	113
[The little fox, the wolf and bear made peace]	Folk Song	Z. C. Boyajian	15
[The Rose was gone. When to the empty tent]	Grigoris of Aghtamar	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	52
[The Sky bent down his piercing gaze one day]	Hovhannes Toumanian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	79
[The sun has touched the mountain’s crest]	Folk Song	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	36
[The sun went down behind the hill]	Avetis Isahakian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	30
[The wind is howling through the winter night]	Avetis,,Isahakian,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	42
[Thou art so sweet thou wilt not pain]	Sayat Nova	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	110
[Thy voice is soft, thy speech all sweetness flows]	Sayat,,Nova,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	74
[Undying Love, Whose beams forever glow]	Bedros Tourian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	121
[Unutterable silence here is spread]	Raffi	George M. Green	86
[Weary of vainly seeking Happiness]	Arschag Tchobanian	Z. C. Boyajian	118
[Whence comest thou, my moon, gentle and still]	Leo Alishan	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	108
[When Death’s pale angel comes to me]	Bedros Tourian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	50
[When the God of Liberty]	Mikael Nalbandian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	12
[Why dost thou lie in hushed surprise]	Bedros Tourian	Alice Stone Blackwell	18
[With nuts and sweets and dainty fare]	Raffi	Z. C. Boyajian	78
[Without thee what are song and dance to me?]	Sayat Nova	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	85
[Ye mountain bluebells, weep with me]	Avetis Isahakian	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	29
[Yesternight I walked abroad]	Author Unknown	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	7
[Charm Verses]	Folk Songs	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	67
PROSE LEGENDS
[Ara and Semiramis]	Moses of Khorene	Z. C. Boyajian	23
[Artashes and Satenik]	Moses,,of,,Khorene,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	48
[Artavasd]	Moses,,of,,Khorene,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	65
[Christ and Abgarus]	Moses,,of,,Khorene,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	75
[The Castle of Anoush]	Raffi	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	114
[The Founding of Van]	Moses of Khorene	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	33
[Vahagn, King of Armenia]	Moses,,of,,Khorene,,	Z.,,C.,,Boyajian,,	10

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