A Heavy Sigh
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, ...
Song
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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At Trichas’ Bridge
At the bridge, at the bridge,
at Trichas’ bridge.
A thousand builders hard at work,
and ten thousand apprentices.
They’d ...
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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
If I Die, Bury Me
If I die, bury me on a tall mountain
so I can hear the shepherd’s whistle
and the pipe’s sweet sound,
so I can hear the sh...
Song
Marandon
Marandon has received the order to go to war.
He forges horseshoes of silver and nails of gold,
He shoes his black steed by...
Song
Marandon
The Evil Mother-In-Law
Word came calling Marandon up to fight.
He forged horseshoes out of silver and nails out of gold
and shoed his horse in the...
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Somewhere in the Aegean Sea
Somewhere in the Aegean Sea, oh, my heart, my heart,
so distant, so far away, my heart is fit to burst.
A vessel richly fit...