Arts & Sciences
Versification
Translated by John Bowring (1830) · From Poetry of the Magyars (1830)
Arts & Sciences
"Give me thy Psyche, young Eros! O give, and my lute will I give thee—
Doubled thy influence, Mighty One! doubled thy transports shall be."
I, for thy lute, give my Psyche, Apollo? My lute is mine arrow:
Said—and straight heaven-ward the magical arrow up flew;
Full on hexameters rush'd the arrow's loud whizzing ascension,
And as it whispering fell a pentameter woke.
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Kazinczy, Ferenc. “Versification.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kazinczy/9/.
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Kazinczy, Ferenc. “Versification.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kazinczy/9/.
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