Poetry Codex

Hungarian

Mihály Vitkovics

1778–1829

Serbian-Hungarian poet, translator and lawyer, born in Eger and active in Hungarian literary life in Pest (Wikisource gives his name as Mihailo Vitković).

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

Poems (9)

  1. Cottager's Song
  2. Entreaty
  3. Shepherd Song of Füredi
  4. Love and Friendship
  5. To Czenczi (As the hart the freshening waters)
  6. The Moon
  7. To Lidi
  8. To Czenczi (Were I but the Matra-hill)
  9. To an Envious Man

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