THE dead have been awakened--shall I sleep?
The World's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?
The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart----
Classic poem
Journal in Cephalonia
Public domain/Source
About this poem
- First line
- THE dead have been awakened--shall I sleep?
- Themes
- nature, love, war, night
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