Love
Himfy's Loves, II. Song 75
Translated by John Bowring (1830) · From Poetry of the Magyars (1830)
Not the songs to Pindus brought,
By the unholy thirst for glory;
Not the songs by riches bought—
The perfidiousness of story:
No! but that life-sparkling fountain,
Springing forth from transport's soul,
Up to joy's delirium mounting,
Gladdening nature's glowing whole,
Winging love's cloud-piercing arrow
Thro' time's boundaries, dark and narrow,
Wending tow'rds the heavens along,
This—this only be my song.
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Kisfaludy, Sándor. “Himfy's Loves, II. Song 75.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kisfaludy_s/11/.
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Kisfaludy, Sándor. “Himfy's Loves, II. Song 75.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kisfaludy_s/11/.
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