Armenian Legends and Poems

by Unknown

CONTENTS

• PAGE
• [Preface] vii
• [Introduction] ix
• [Reproaches] xv
• [A Trial of Orthodoxy] xvi
• [The Exile’s Song] 1
• [The Apple Tree] 3
• [My Heart is turned into a Wailing Child] 4
• [O Night, be long] 5
• [Black Eyes] 6
• [Yesternight I walked Abroad] 7
• [Vahagn, King of Armenia] 10
• [Huntsman, that on the Hills above] 11
• [Liberty] 12
• [I beheld my Love this Morning] 14
• [The Fox, the Wolf, and the Bear] 15
• [Incense] 17
• [The Little Lake] 18
• [Spring] 20
• [Cradle Song] 21
• [Ara and Semiramis] 23
• [Lament over the Heroes fallen in the Battle of Avarair] 25
• [The Song of the Stork] 27
• [Ye Mountain Bluebells] 29
• [The Sun went down] 30
• [Birthday Song] 31
• [Morning] 32
• [The Founding of Van] 33
• [I have a Word I fain would say] 35
• [The Song of the Partridge] 36
• [The Lily of Shavarshan] 37
• [Cradle Song] 41
• [The Wind is howling through the Winter Night] 42
• [The Armenian Poet’s Prayer] 43
• [The Chragan Palace] 44
• [The Dream] 46
• [The Sorrows of Armenia] 47
• [Artashes and Satenik] 48
• [My Death] 50
• [The Eagle’s Love] 51
• [Concerning the Rose and the Nightingale] 52
• [The Arrival of the Crusaders] 58
• [Like an Ocean is this World] 59
• [The Rock] 60
• [The Crane] 62
• [The Hawk and the Dove] 63
• [Artavasd] 65
• [Charm Verses] 67
• [The Tears of Araxes] 69
• [The Eve of Ascension Day] 73
• [“Thy Voice is Sweet”] 74
• [Christ and Abgarus] 75
• [Araxes came devouringly] 77
• [The Parrot’s Song] 78
• [Earth and Sky] 79
• [O’er the Mountains High he went] 81
• [Complaints] 82
• [A Day After] 84
• [Without Thee what are Song and Dance to Me?] 85
• [The Lake of Van] 86
• [Spring] 89
• [The Fox] 90
• [The Tale of Rosiphelee] 91
• [The Song of the Vulture] 98
• [Dance Song] 101
• [Ballad] 103
• [No Bird can reach the Mountain’s Crest] 106
• [The Nightingale of Avarair] 108
• [Thou art so Sweet] 110
• [The Wandering Armenian to the Swallow] 111
• [The Christ-Child] 113
• [The Castle of Anoush] 114
• [Happiness] 118
• [Concerning Death] 119
• [Love One Another] 121
• [Pasqua Armena] 122
• [“Io Vidi”] 123
• [Armenia: its Epics, Folk-Songs, and Mediaeval Poetry] 125
• [Chronological Index to Authors] 193
• [Index to First Lines] 195

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• [Armenia] Frontispiece
• [The Birth of Vahagn, King of Armenia] facing page 10
• [Ara and Semiramis] facing,,page,, 23
• [The Founding of Van] facing,,page,, 33
• [Artashes and Satenik] facing,,page,, 48
• [The Wedding] facing,,page,, 49
• [Artavasd] facing,,page,, 65
• [Christ’s Letter to Abgarus] facing,,page,, 75
• [The Lake of Van] facing,,page,, 86
• [The Vision of Rosiphelee, Princess of Armenia] facing,,page,, 91
• [The Lady and the Minstrel] facing,,page,, 102
• [The Castle of Anoush] facing,,page,, 114

REPROACHES