Nature
Bright Star
Translated by William N. Loew (1912) · From Selected Lyrics
Nature
Bright shining star, pray, tell me why
Thou did'st not stay up in the sky?
The reason I would like to know,
Why from heaven thou sped below.
"For one thing I fled from above:
I looked upon thy sweetheart love,
Her eyes shone brighter than did I,
And angrily I left the sky."
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Petőfi, Sándor. “Bright Star.” Translated by William N. Loew. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/petofi/62/.
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Petőfi, Sándor. “Bright Star.” Translated by William N. Loew. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/petofi/62/.
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