Contents

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Foreword	vii
Preface	viii
Introduction	ix
Armenia's Love to Shakespeare	xiv
Reproaches	xv
A Trial of Orthodoxy	xvi
ARMENIAN LEGENDS AND POEMS
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
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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, by Aram Raffi	125
Addenda and Corrigenda	192
Chronological Index to Authors	193
Index to First Lines	195

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