Heroic ballads of Servia, tr. into English verse by George Rapall Noyes and Leonard Bacon

George Rapall Noyes, Leonard Bacon

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BALLADSHEROIC SERVIAOF TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE J thou go. Let our sister bathe I will whiten thethy baby; linen like snow." Then the wife of thereto wouldyoung Goyko no more;say Forthwith unto the masons their meal shemidday bore. saw and sad was his heartBy Goyko her,Boyana that day, Sad for his wife and the little lad that thein cradle lay, That should be without his mother ere his first month was told; And down the hero's face the bitter tearsupon rolled.they The slender looked on him she walked;girl gently along, Until she was come to and she asGoyko, spake soft as a song: "What aileth that on cheeksthee, Goyko, thy the bitter tears have rolled?" [20] He answered: it love! I had"Evil is, my an ofapple gold, into and woe is meAnd it fellto-day Boyana, this !day of the this I cannotIt is a trouble soul; grief slay." the slender unto herShe understood not, girl; lord she spake: for thine an far better shalthealth;"Pray apple thou make!" Then was he and turned hisgrievously sorry, head aside ; He could not bear to look hisany longer upon bride. But the two sons of took her handsMarnyava white and small, And led her to the to wall her in the stronghold, wall. made to Rado the builder the matter mani-They fest; She at his three hundred for she deemsmen,laughs it is a jest. her and to wallher,They brought they placed her in the wall; And the three hundred masons came therethey one and all.

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• English poetry

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 11
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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BALLADSHEROIC
SERVIAOF
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE
J
<RAPALL NOYESGEORGE L
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LEONARD BACON
BOSTON
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1913THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY
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FRENCHSHERMAN, 6 COMPANTPREFACE
The of the volume is to givepurpose present
of the best of a ballad litera-specimens portions
that is the most remarkable inture Europe.among
of the ballads from theFor the translation
the I amand for introduction andServian, notes,
Mr. Bacon has transformedresponsible; my prose
texts into verse. Each of us, however,English
has of course made as to the work ofsuggestions
the other.
Most of the material in the introduction I have
taken from 10,Karajich below, pp. 11),(see
and from the concise Sketch Servian Literatureof
of Professor
(in Servian) Popovich (Belgrade,
minor details in the book asFor various1909).
to several transla-a whole I am indebted previous
tors from the Servian and writers on Servia and
its literature to be to Servian; exact, Bowring,
Elodie Lawton;Popular Poetry (London, 1827)
Kossovo La;Mijatovich, 1881) D'Avril,
Bataille de MarJco;(Paris, 1868) Vogl,
Chedo1851) ;Kraljevits (Vienna, Mijatovich,
Servia and the Servians (Boston, Page, 1908) ;
The ServianLazarovich-Hrebelianovich, People
W. TheYork, Scribner, Miller,(New 1910);
Balkans York, Putnam, Ranke,(New 1896);Serbian und die Ttirkei im neunzelwten Jahrlvwn,-
dert also translated1879; Kerr,(Leipzig, by
To Messrs. Charles Scribner'sLondon, 1847).
forSons and G. P. Putnam's Sons I am indebted
oftheir courteous topermission reprint passages
some from the workslength copyright published
them.by
Next to and I oweKarajich Popovich, however,
most to Mr. S. aMilivoy Stanoyevich, graduate
of the of who has aided meUniversity Belgrade,
in various in the selection of theways, notably
later in the translation of difficultballads, pas-
and in the accentuation of the Servian
sages,
names. Without his this volume would
kindly help
be much more than it is at
imperfect present.
G. R. NOYES.