Δεν ξημερώνεις μαύρη αυγή ⬥ Won’t you break, black dawn so I can find peace, my jewel, so I can find peace? My eyes are close to dim… My eyes are close to dimming from the wakefulness, my jewel, my eyes are close to gone. Come up, come out so [...]
Το τραγούδι του Aϊ-Γιώργη ⬥ O sainted George and honoured master, rider of the grey horse, accoutred with a trusty sword and with a golden lance, it is my wish to compliment your glory and the prowess with which you slayed the monstrous beast, the huge and fearsome lion; at [...]
Ο κυρ Βοριάς εφύσηξε ⬥ The Great North Wind blew throughout the land and all those, kalé, all those ships that heard him made it safely into shore. But one, kalé, one fine ship didn’t make it into harbor. – I fear you not, Great North Wind, you can blow and [...]
Η νύχτα ώρες δεκατρείς ⬥ The night endures for thirteen hours, I sleep for merely three. Throughout the hours that then remain I think of only you. It is night but day is breaking, dawn allows of no concealment. Night, what sorrow bows you down that you have put on [...]
Η θάλασσα με δέρνει ⬥ The sea pounds me, the sea pounds me, the waves lash me. And a great fish… And a great fish is feasting on me. Alas, curly-headed basil I’ve lost my heart to you. There’s no counting the fish in the sea, and no believing the [...]
Νύχτα ήταν που φιλιόμαστε ⬥ We kissed each other in the night, and who could see us then? I’ll tell you, dear, the star saw us, and dawn saw us as well. The star saw us and dawn did too, the star and the moon, the star it was that [...]
Ποιος είδε πράσινο δεντρί ⬥ Whoever saw a tree of green, with eyes of black and a blond sheen and royal blue leaves to boot, eyes black, eyebrows dark as soot? In the treetops all is golden, young girls yonder eyes all swollen down at its roots the coolest spring, [...]
Ο Κωσταντάκης ο μικρός ⬥ Young Kostantakis married young, he married young and took a young wife, and he was young, too, when he was called up to war. - Mother, care for my wife, take care of my precious, may she have rabbit for lunch and partridge for dinner. [...]
