The letters b, d, f, h, k, m, n, p, r, s, t, z, are pronounced as in English, except when modified, as several of them are, by particular dots or accents, necessary for the expressing of Slavonic soun...

The Slavonic languages and their literatures are so little studied in our own country, that it is to be feared that many English men and women have not even heard the name of Poland’s greatest poet, A...

In order to have a clear understanding of the spirit in which this poem is composed, it will not perhaps be considered irrelevant to prefix a short abstract of the historical events on which it is fou...

Litva! my country, like art thou to health, For how to prize thee he alone can tell Who has lost thee. I behold thy beauty now In full adornment, and I sing of it Because I long for thee. O holy Virgi...

Which of us does not recollect those years When, as a lad, with rifle on his shoulder, He went forth, whistling loudly, to the plain; Where neither mound nor hedge a hindrance made Unto his footstep; ...

The Count returned unto himself, but still He stayed his horse; and turning round his head, He gazed into the garden, and one time It seemed to him, that from the little window Gleamed the mysterious ...

O ye contemporaries of our great Litvanian princes, trees of Bialowiez, Switez, Ponary, and of Kuszelew, Whose shadow fell upon the crowned heads Of threatening Witenez and great Mindowe,105 And Gedym...

Having the chase thus ended gloriously, The Wojski from the pinewoods home returns; But Telimena now begins a hunt Deep in the lonely mansion. She indeed Sat motionless, with hands upon her lap Folded...

From the damp twilight stole forth, dimly seen, Light without blushing, leading on the day With lightless eye. The day had risen long since, But scarce as yet was visible. A mist Hung o’er the earth, ...

In order due their Envoy Bartek now Commenced his speech. He, as he often went On rafts unto the kingdom, had been named The Prussian by his fellow-countrymen; In jest, for greatly did he hate the Pru...

Before a storm a still and gloomy hour Comes, while the cloud that soars o’er human heads Stands still, and with a threatening countenance Restrains the breath of winds; silent, it runs Around the ear...

And in such sound sleep lay they that they woke not At shine of lanterns, nor the entering Of several men, who fell upon the nobles As those wall-spiders named scythe-spiders pounce On flies half-slee...

Those morning clouds, erst scattered like black birds, Soaring in heaven’s highest region, now Together gathered closer. Scarce the sun Had from the south descended, than their flock Had with a mighty...

Thou year! who in our country thee beheld, The year of beauty calls thee even now, But year of war the soldier; even yet Our elders love to tell of thee, even now Song dreameth of thee. Long wert thou...

At length the doors flew open with loud noise. The Wojski entered in a cap, with head Upraised, he nor saluted, nor took place At table, for the Wojski cometh forth. In a new semblance; marshal of the...

“Z archanielskiemi skrzydlami i glosem, Ty czasem dzierzysz i miecz archaniola.” ↩ In the time of the Polish Republic the execution of judicial decrees was very difficult, in a country where the execu...