Acknowledgments A Note on the Translation MICHAEL M. NAYDAN A Biographical Sketch of the Poet MICHAEL M. NAYDAN Between Creation and the Apocalypse: The Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych LIDIA STEFANOWSKA Part I: From the Collection The Grand Harmony (1932-1933) Musica Noctis De Morte I Ars Poetica II, 1 Liber Peregrinorum 3 Part II: From the Collection Three Rings: Long Poems and Lyrics (1934) Self-Portrait Three Rings An Elegy about a Singing Door An Elegy about the Keys to Love An Elegy about the Ring of a Song The Wedding The Country Tavern To the Wind A Landscape from a Window Goblets A Prince Maples The Village Christmas Kolyada The Green Gospel Primordial Summer The Snake The Forest An Elegy on the Ring of Night The Night A Late Hour Morning The Arrow Bitter Wine A Bitter Night A Night on St. George''s Square Part III: From the Collection The Book of the Lion (1936) The Sign of the Lion Daniel in the Lion''s Den Ballad about the Prophet Jonah A Song about the Light before Time The Samaritan Woman by the Well Six Strophes of Mysticism Roses Carnations Peonies Tulips Violets A Monumental Landscape The Square of Angels Apocalypse Starlion; or The Constellation of the Lion Magicopolis; or How Myths are Born Sands The Round Dance A Song on the Indestructibility of Matter A Prayer to the Stars Red Taffeta The Tale of a Black Regiment Part IV: From the Collection The Green Gospel (1938) FIRST CHAPTER An Invitation To the Beings from a Green Star An Ecstatic Eight-Strophe Poem FIRST LYRIC INTERMEZZO The First Chapter of the Bible Two Hearts A Portrait of a Carpenter The Fair SECOND CHAPTER The Sign of the Oak Duet The Garden SECOND LYRIC INTERMEZZO A Bird Cherry Poem A Sermon to the Fish Carp Spring Cherry Trees THIRD CHAPTER Goldsea The Fleece A Prayer for the Souls of Drowned Girls Ambassadors of the Night To a Proud Plant, that is, to Myself The Lady of Diamonds The Home beyond a Star Part V: From the Collection Rotations (1938) Rotations Cities and Muses Ballad of the Alley Forever A Ballad on Azure Death The Bottom of Silence The End of the World The Concert from Mercury Dead Automobiles Trumpets of the Last Day Ending Part VI: From Poetry not Published in Collections A Lviv Elegy Green Faith A Prayer Part VII: From the Collection A Welcome to Life (1931) The Mad Fish The Stratosphere The Bee Autumn About a Strophe Autobiography A Welcome to Life General Index Index of Poem Titles in English Index of Poem Titles in Latin and Ukranian.