The Lake Of The Van (2) (Hakob Melik-Hakobian Poems)
DEEP silence everywhere-a hush profound!One might imagine nature to be dead.Sitting here mournfully, a pilgrim lone,O brilliant moon, I see ...
DEEP silence everywhere-a hush profound!One might imagine nature to be dead.Sitting here mournfully, a pilgrim lone,O brilliant moon, I see ...
O moon, fair lamp divinely lit! God set you in the sky To lead night's hosts, for darkness blind And ...
I WALK by Mother AraxWith faltering steps and slow,And memories of past agesSeek in the waters' flow.But they run dark ...
BROTHERS, we have no hope from foreigners ;Gaze not around for aid! Though with good-willThe foreigner receive you as a ...
REFUGE of Dalvorig's valiant men,Of strife and dangerous days!Lo, all Armenia towards theeTo-day in hope doth gaze.Thou black and naked ...
LIVE as Armenians, brethren, in this world!That name to us do history's pages give ;The heavens above salute us by ...
WHERE art thou, sweet and gentle breeze,Breeze of my fatherland ?The spring has come, and tender flowersBud forth on every ...
WE are the sons of valiant men, Armenians great and free;Our grandsires were descended from a hero-ancestry ;Our fathers brave ...
WHY didst thou cease, O nightingale, thy sweet, melodious song,That to my sad and burning eyes bade floods of teardrops ...
MY dearest Sumpad, my beloved son,Flower of my heart and light of my sad eyes!The Turk hath snatched thee from ...
"WHAT shall we do ? " Now, shame on those who that weak plaint renew !He that despairs, in deepest ...
ALAS, ye poor Armenians !In undeserved distressYe wander forth to slavery,In want and wretchedness.A myriad woes ye suffered,Nor left your ...
SPEAK, O lake ! why ate thy waters silent ?Wilt thou not lament with luckless me ?Move, ye zephyrs, move ...
My country, noble spectre of the past; Along thy rivers, and within thy vales, There breathes a deep-toned voice, that ...
Mesrob, standing against the Armenian centuries, You, rock of diamond, You, undiscoverable lighthouse of consciousness, Which sows flashes From the ...
(_In a Jerusalem tavern_)A Latin and Greek, praise God, are we, Armenian and Copt,And we're all drunk as drunk can ...
The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev'ry band. Brandy no ...
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