Between Two Mountains
See also
Song
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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A Maid Was Singing Longingly
A maid was singing longingly inside a high-walled palace,
her voice was caught up on the breeze and carried off to seaward,
...
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A Young Lad
A Soldier and a Tree
A young man, a fine young lad
went off in search of a castle, Greek lass of mine.
And though he found no castles and no vil...
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A Young and Gallant Soldier
A young and gallant soldier Sought a citadel, a citadel.
He sought a citadel, a village to stop at. He found none, no citade...
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Dawn Glowed in the East
The sun rose in the East and day broke in the West,
the young man led his black mount to water.
All along the way, he calle...
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Digenes Is Dying
The Death of Digenis
Digenes, Digenes is giving up the ghost,
my eyes, Digenes is dying
my eyes are black, Digenes is dying.
All the lords on l...
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Digenis Is Dying
The Death of Digenis
Digenis is dying and the mountains are trembling,
and all the lords that heard it set out to visit him,
they set out, bring...
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Forgetful, I Am Truly Glad
Forgetful I am truly glad, but mindful I am saddened;
remembering those foreign lands, I want to set out for them.
– Get up...
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I Will Climb a Mountain High
With golden adz and silver saw
I climb a mountain high,
up where the best trees grow.
To cut boughs of laurel and apple an...
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It’s Eastertime
Easter Dance
It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one,
the greatest of all feasts,
you fair-haired ones, you ...
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Old Nun A-Cooking
A nun was frying fish and a voice,
a shrill high voice, kept telling her again and again:
'Stop cooking, old maid,
and Con...
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One Easter Day, One Sunday
The Sinner
One Easter Day, one Sunday,
on a holy day, my little bird,
a mother was adorning her son
one Saturday from dawn to dusk,
...
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The Lament of the Virgin (Thrace)
Holy Week Lament
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Today the sky is sullen black, the day itself is sullen,
today all folk are sorrowing, the mountains are in mourning,
...
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Tricked by the Birds
Tricked I was, tricked by the birds,
tricked by the nightingales of spring.
They tricked me and told me I would never die.
...