volks-lieder

Updated: May 6, 2025

But it seems certain that these poets, predecessors of Theocritus, liked to mingle with their own composition strains of rustic melody, volks-lieder, ballads, love-songs, ditties, and dirges, such as are still chanted by the peasants of Greece and Italy.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose