Living

Marosian Song

by Anonymous Hungarian Popular Songs traditional

Translated by John Bowring (1830) · From Poetry of the Magyars (1830)

Living

The waters ebb and the waters flow,
My head is aching with anxious woe;
But come, my rose, and sit down with me,
Soon calm and sunny hours will beam;
My heart shall find tranquillity,
And be as bright as Maros' stream.

Sweet dovelet! thou art as sad as I;
List! for the stork goes flapping by:
See! for the courser seeks the glade;
The grass is hung with gems of dew.
Let's seek the fields, my lovely maid,
Let's mount our steeds, and be joyful too.

MLA

Anonymous Hungarian Popular Songs. “Marosian Song.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-hungarian/26/.

Chicago

Anonymous Hungarian Popular Songs. “Marosian Song.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-hungarian/26/.

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