Armenian legends and poems / illustrated & comp. by Zabelle C. Boyajian; with an introduction by the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O. M., and a contribution on "Armenia: its epics, folk-songs and mediaeval poetry," by Aram Raffi.

With softcover.

A reissue of the 1916 ed., with a new foreword and a sonnet by Miss Boyajian, published in honor of the golden jubilee of the Armenian General Benevolent Union.

Reproduction of a book published in 1916.

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Index: p. 193-196.

Cont.: Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Armenia's Love to Shakespeare -- Reproaches -- A Trial of Orthodoxy -- The Exile's Song -- The Apple Tree -- My Heart Is Turned into a Wailing Child -- O Night, Be Long -- Black Eyes -- Yesternight I Walked Abroad -- Vahagn, King of Armenia -- Huntsman, That on the Hills Above -- Liberty -- I Beheld My Love This Morning -- The Fox, the Wolf, and the Bear -- Incense -- The Little Lake -- Spring -- Cradle Song -- Ara and Semiramis -- Lament over the Heroes Fallen in the Battle of Avarair -- The Song of the Stork -- Ye Mountain Bluebells -- The Sun Went Down -- Birthday Song -- Morning -- The Founding of Van -- I Have a Word I Fain Would Say -- The Song of the Partridge -- The Lily of Shavarshan -- Cradle Song -- The Wind Is Howling through the Winter Night -- The Armenian Poet's Prayer -- The Chragan Palace -- The Dream -- The Sorrows of Armenia -- Artashes and Satenik -- My Death -- The Eagle's Love -- Concerning the Rose and the Nightingale -- The Arrival of the Crusaders -- Like an Ocean Is This World -- The Rock 60 The Crane -- The Hawk and the Dove -- Artavasd 65 Charm Verses -- The Tears of Araxes -- The Eve of Ascension Day -- "Thy Voice Is Sweet"-- Christ and Abgarus -- Araxes Came Devouringly -- The Parrot's Song -- Earth and Sky -- O’er the Mountains High He Went -- Complaints -- A Day After -- Without Thee What Are Song and Dance to Me? -- The Lake of Van -- Spring -- The Fox -- The Tale of Rosiphelee -- The Song of the Vulture -- Dance Song -- Ballad -- No Bird Can Reach the Mountain's Crest -- The Nightingale of Avarair -- Thou Art So Sweet -- The Wandering Armenian to the Swallow -- The Christ-Child -- The Castle of Anoush -- Happiness -- Concerning Death -- Love One Another -- Pasqua Armena -- "Io Vidi" -- Armenia: Its Epics, Folk-Songs, and Mediaeval Poetry, by Aram Raffi -- Addenda and Corrigenda -- Chronological Index to Authors -- Index to First Lines.