May, by Karel Hynek Mácha (llustrations Jan Zrzavý, translation Edith Pargeter)

Čechové jsou národ dobrý!

One of the most famous Czech poems, in English translation by Edith Pargeter

William Harkins' translation

James Naughton's translation


An extract from the translation by Hugh Hamilton McGoverne (May. Rendered in English verse by Hugh Hamilton McGoverne. Together with selected prose, letters, occasional pieces and a portrait, 1949)