Top 9 Adam Mickiewicz Quotes

Sound as a burrow'd marmot he slept
On the straw where he'd tumbled fully-dressed that night.

Translation: Lithuania, my country! You are as good health;
How much one should prize you, he only can tell, Who has lost you...

Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jesteś jak zdrowie;
Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie, Kto cię stracił...

In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
The worms of memories to work you woe.

Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft,
Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets,
Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.

Translation: We'd better send
For God. He will remember and tell us all.

Będę o to Pana Boga pytać,
On to wszystko zapisał, wszystko mnie opowie.

Translation: A tyrant has arisen, Herod! Lord, the youth of Poland Is all delivered into Herod's hands. What do I see? Long snowy ways, with many crossroads, White roads that stretch through wastes too distant to descry! All running to the north, that far, far country, As rivers flow; [...]

Tyran wstał — Herod! — Panie, cała Polska młoda Wydana w ręce Heroda. Co widzę — długie, białe, dróg krzyżowych biegi, </br>Drogi długie — nie dojrzeć — przez puszcze, przez śniegi </br>Wszystkie na północ! tam, tam w kraj daleki, Płyną jak rzeki.