Doina by Mihai Eminescu (Romaninan national poet; January 15, 1850 June 15, 1889)

Romanian Sad Song by Romanian Poet MIHAI EMINESCU
(Translation from Romanian by Corneliu M Popescu)
Music by Romanian composer Tudor Chiriac.
Chorus and orchestra from Chisinau Philharmonic , Solist: Olga Ciolacu.

DOINA (1884)
[...or ballade - the name is a traditional type of Romanian song]


From Tisa to the Nistru's tide
All Romania's people cried
That they could no longer stir
For the rabbled foreigner.
From Hotin down to the sea
Rides the Muscal cavalry;
From the sea back to Hotin
Nothing but their host is seen;
While from Dorna to Boian
Seems the plague has spread its ban;
Leaving on our land a scar
That you scarcely know it more.
Up the mountains down the dale,
Have our foes flung far their trail.
From Sacele to Satmar
Only foreign lords there are;
While Romanians one and all
Like the crab must backwards crawl.
And reversed is everything:
Spring for them is no more spring,
Summer is no longer summer,
They, at home, the foreign comer.
From Turnu up to Dorohoi
Does the alien horde deploy
And our fertile fields enjoy.
With their rumbling trains they come
Making all our voices dumb,
And our birds so much affray
That in haste they fly away.
Nothing now but withered thorn
Does the Christian's hearth adorn.
And the smiling earth they smother;
Forest-good Romanian brother -
You too bend before their tide,
And the very springs they've dried.
Sad is this our countryside.

Who has sent them to these parts,
May the dogs eat out their hearts;
May the night their homes efface,
And with them this shameless race.
May his widow live astray
Children's bread ever deny.

Stephen, mighty emperor,
You in Putna reign no more.
While his holy Prelacy
Guards alone the monastery,
Where the priests in fervent prayer
Of the saints take pious care.
Let them toll the bells away,
All the night and all the day,
And the gracious Lord invoke
That he come and save your folk !
Stephen rise up from the ground,
And your battle trumpet sound
All Moldavia gathered round.
Blow your trumpet just one blare,
All Moldavia will be there;
Let your trumpet blazed two
That the forests follow you;
Let your trumpet blazed three,
That our foes demolished be
From the mountains to the sea,
That the crows may hear their knell
And the gallows-tree as well.
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Recent sources reveal that the Romanian and Austrian authorities of the time staged the "illness" of Eminescu in order to marginalize a powerful political adversary of the Romanian-Austrian treaty that was signed at that time. The secret treaty required Romania to cease its support to Transylvanian Romanians (then under Austrian rule). It did so (for a time), which caused certain Transylvanian-born Romanians to leave Bucharest. Eminescu, too, was under constant surveillance.
Nicolae Iorga, the Romanian historian, considers Eminescu the godfather of the modern Romanian language.
He is unanimously celebrated as the greatest and most representative Romanian poet.

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[loloica]

Believe me strangers!HE was ONE OF THE TOP 5 POETS OF HUMANITY!

HE WAS A GENIUS!!!But his bad luck was that he was born here, in romania!HIS GREATEST BAD LUCK WAS THAT HE WAS A ROMANIAN!

Foarte greu iti poti gasi cuvintele potrivite pentru a-l descrie pe titanul Eminescu!

Datorita lui si celor asemeni lui, ne mai putem mandri ca suntem romani;datorita lui Eminescu, avem o istorie adevarata!

[Ilotz]

@loloica - for a long time a have the same opinion "!HIS GREATEST BAD LUCK WAS THAT HE WAS A ROMANIAN!" - especially since beeing exposed to the to so called western civilization on the day to day basis.

[Ilotz]

Recent sources reveal that the Romanian and Austrian authorities of the time staged the "illness" of Eminescu in order to marginalize a powerful political adversary of the Romanian-Austrian treaty that was signed at that time. The secret treaty required Romania to cease its support to Transylvanian Romanians (then under Austrian rule). It did so (for a time), which caused certain Transylvanian-born Romanians to leave Bucharest. Eminescu, too, was under constant surveillance.

[Ilotz]

Nicolae Iorga, the Romanian historian, considers Eminescu the godfather of the modern Romanian language.

He is unanimously celebrated as the greatest and most representative Romanian poet.

[nicu6177]

@SteauaBucuresti Poporul acesta de la naştere a suferit şi suferă încă din partea duşmanilor. Şi el totuşi se menţine şi-n plus a născut atâtea valori: un Eminescu în literatură, Brâncuşi în sculptură, Enescu, considerând că arta, poezia este o proorocie, la urma urmei. Nu trebuie negli jate aceste realităţi. Tocmai în această suferinţă stă renaşterea viitoare.

[Braduta3]

Base a dat dislike!

[aduhux]

una din cele mai impresionante interpretari!!!

Sa ne ghidezi de acolo de Sus, tu cel care ne-ai dat limba si cultura!

Dumnezeu sa ne ajute!

[Romanisipunctum]

Eminescu a spus: "Suntem Romani si Punctum!" (aviz celor care vor sa-i imparta pe daco-romani in: moldoveni, vlahi, s,a,m.d.).

Eminescu trebuie citit in Operele Politice, articolele din Timpul care arata patriotismul si competenta multi-disciplinara a acestui geniu roman; poeziile sunt pe planul 2. Operele Politice sunt cele care trebuie citite de romanii documentati, de la scoli la lecturile beletristice. Numai bine dragi compatrioti!

Traiasca Dacia-Romania!

[SteauaBucuresti]

Eminescu nu trebuie sa fie considerat doar un "poet", ci profetul fiinta romanului!

[nicu6177]

Bai frate,se sinucid cei ce au vandut tara cand asculta aceasta DOINA

[bordincus]

Poezia "Doina" de Mihai Eminescu a fost interzisă în perioada regimului comunist

[lagasa91]

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