Frases de Taras Shevtchenko

Taras Shevtchenko, em ucraniano Тарáс Григóрович Шевчéнко, transl. Tarás Hryhórovych Shevtchénko , foi um poeta, pintor, desenhador, artista e humanista ucraniano. Foi fundador da literatura moderna ucraniana e visionário da Ucrânia moderna. Sua maior obra foi a colectânea poética Kobzar. Wikipedia

✵ 25. Fevereiro 1814 – 10. Março 1861

Taras Shevtchenko: Frases em inglês

“When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnieper's plunging shore
My eyes could see, my ears could hear
The mighty river roar.

When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears
Into the deep blue sea
The blood of foes… then will I leave
These hills and fertile fields --
I'll leave them all and fly away
To the abode of God,
And then I'll pray…. But until that day
I know nothing of God.

Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
Remember also me.”

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Taras Shevchenko Testamento

Taras Shevchenko Zapovit, 1845 (Shevchenko's "Testament"), Translated by John Weir, Toronto, 1961; Online at