If I Die, Bury Me
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Song
Close to Daybreak
Close to daybreak, dawn’s crack in the East,
the Morning Star aloft, first light near at hand.
The sun was a- telling, ‘dau...
Song
The Maid Climbed up to the Summer Pasture
The maid climbed up to the summer pasture, my little bird,
to become a shepherdess, come, come I say!
to become a shepherde...
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A Cretan Ship
- A Cretan ship, nor large nor small,
just two and forty cubits long,
brought me to strange and unknown lands.
- O alien, ...
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Amarandos Goes to War (Marandon)
Amarandos has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed b...
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Digenes Rescues His Beloved
Akritas laboured down by the river,
Coming and going he laboured, tracing five furrows,
Coming and going he sowed nine meas...
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Easter Couplets
Easter Dance
Easter has come round again, throw out the koukouràs1
and put a red egg laid this year upon the ikon stand2.
Glad returns o...
Song
May
May's come,
May's come and spring,
summer’s come
when the perfumed roses bloom.
I’ve a white rose I want to dye
and if I...
Song
O April, April, Cool and Fresh
O April, April cool and fresh, dear George, a worthy scholar,
May month so finely decked with flowers, dear George, so finel...
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Ploughed Garden of Mine
Orchard, my orchard, orchard ploughed
all pruned and daisy-strewed.
You’ve flower beds all around,
and marjoram in the gro...
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The Eagle and the Partridge
An eagle swooping over and over the mastic bushes
singing sad songs to the partridge
scratching in the earth below,
sorrow...
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The Ship Is My House
The ship is my house, the sea my courtyard
and the waves of the north wind, are my comfort.
A little stranger is dying at t...
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Virginada
A tree… hai hai, Virginada
I had a tree in my yard
I had a tree in my yard
for solace, my love.
Its leaves grow green
it...
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Zaphiris
Zaphiris, you’re a tubby lad, you’re short and roly-poly,
the door locks are all rusted up and weeds have choked the doorway...