Evening songs by Vítězslav Hálek
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Evening songs by Vítězslav Hálek is a collection of lyric poems written in the mid-to-late 19th century. The book centers on romantic love shaped by nature’s beauty, spiritual devotion, and the calling of the poet. The poems follow a lover who adores and courts a maiden, weaving images of spring, moonlight, stars, doves, and nightingales into prayers, vows, and confessions. Love appears as both bliss and wound, a divine gift mingled with
tears; joy and separation alternate, and dreams promise reunion. Alongside intimate addresses are meditations on the heart’s mysteries and the sanctity of song, casting the bard as prophet and healer who turns sorrow into hymn and bids a realm of love for all who suffer. The sequence closes in quiet nocturnes and farewells—moonlit benedictions, distant partings, and a tender “good night” carried by clouds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hálek, Vítězslav, 1835-1874 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Štýbr, Josef, 1864-1938 |
| Title | Evening songs |
| Original Publication | Boston: The Gorham Press, 1920. |
| Credits | Tim Miller, chenzw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Czech poetry -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77623 |
| Release Date | Jan 5, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 202 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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