Poetry Codex

Hungarian

Anonymous Hungarian Popular Songs

traditional

The anonymous popular songs of the Hungarians, sung in the villages and inns of the Magyar lands.

They are read here in John Bowring's English versions from Poetry of the Magyars (1830), an early English anthology of Hungarian verse.

Poems (65)

  1. Ballad of the Emperor's Daughter
  2. Dirge
  3. A Bacsian Song
  4. Comfort
  5. Füredi Festal Song
  6. Dancing Song
  7. Come Hither
  8. Discovery
  9. Bliss
  10. Despondency
  11. Examination
  12. Disdain
  13. Drinking Song
  14. Fortune
  15. Departure
  16. Farewell
  17. Constancy
  18. Slavonian Danceress
  19. Reproach
  20. Song of Farsan
  21. Popular Dancing Song
  22. Invitation
  23. Pastoral
  24. One Word
  25. Song of the Vesprems
  26. Miska
  27. Marosian Song
  28. Song of the Shepherd of Mátra
  29. Song
  30. Love's Conquest
  31. Körösian Waters
  32. Sincerity
  33. My Error
  34. My Angel
  35. Life
  36. Passion
  37. The Kiss
  38. The Shower
  39. The Little and the Great Boy
  40. Time
  41. The Beloved
  42. The Fair and the Brown Maiden
  43. The Magyar Maid
  44. The Difference
  45. The Idler
  46. The Pipkin
  47. The Little Bird
  48. The Complaint of the Young Wife
  49. The Stork
  50. The Brown Maiden
  51. The Beggar's Song
  52. The Parting Girl
  53. Sympathy
  54. Sweet Stephen
  55. Sweet Spirit!
  56. The Csutora Song
  57. The Human Heart
  58. The Bride
  59. The Magyar Dance
  60. The Pilgrimage
  61. The Tiszian
  62. Unrequited Love
  63. Trembling
  64. True Love
  65. Youth

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