Love
Love and Friendship
Translated by John Bowring (1830) · From Poetry of the Magyars (1830)
Love
Love, my sweet Lidi! resembles the fugitive shadows of morning;
Shorter and shorter they grow, and at length disappear.
Friendship—our friendship—is like the beautiful shadows of evening,
Spreading and growing till life and its light pass away.
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MLA
Vitkovics, Mihály. “Love and Friendship.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vitkovics/3/.
Chicago
Vitkovics, Mihály. “Love and Friendship.” Translated by John Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vitkovics/3/.
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