| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Spring | | By Eunice Tietjens, trans. |
| | From “Modern Greek Popular Songs”
From Antonin Proust’s French version
SLEEP no more, my heart! March and May are come; the swallows return; and the doves, two and two, descend to the fountain. | |
| Yesterday, returning from the isles, I passed before her window. She was watering her basil, she was giving to drink to her flower of mint. | |
| She cut a spray of basil, she cut a flower of mint; and she gave them me. | |
| Sleep no more, my heart! March and May are come; the swallows return; and the doves, two and two, descend to the fountain. | | | | |
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