BLOW ye the trumpet, gather from afar The hosts to battle: be not bought and sold. Arise, brave Poles, the boldest of the bold; Break through your iron shackles -- fling them far. O for those days of Piast, ere the Czar Grew to his strength among his deserts cold; When even to Moscow's cupolas were rolled The growing murmurs of the Polish war! Now must your noble anger blaze out more Than when from Sobieski, clan by clan, The Moslem myriads fell, and fled before -- Than when Zamoysky smote the Tartar Khan; Than earlier, when on the Baltic shore Boleslas drove the Pomeranian. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PROBLEM by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: OCTOBER by EDMUND SPENSER THE BLACK FOREST ACOST by KATHRYN BLOOM BEHIND THE LINE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A HINT TO CHRISTIAN POETS by JOHN BYROM TO JUVENCIUS by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS |