Juliusz Slowacki Poems on Angels (5 Poems)

Pan Beniowski – Final Part Of Canto Five (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)

Surging like a vast current of salmon or sheatfish,Coiling up and down like an iron serpentThat rears now its torso, now its head,The armed horsemen breast the prairie grass. —But hold! my song’s device breaks down:My Muse begs a rest, … Continue reading →

Anhelli – Chapter 11 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)

And when they drew near to the burial ground Anhelli heard the hymn of the tombs,complaining, as it were a complaint of the ashes to God. But as soon as the groans arose,an angel seated on the summit of the … Continue reading →

Anhelli – Chapter 5 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)

And so the Shaman and Anhelli made their pilgrimage through the sorrowful countryand over the desolate roads and under the roaring forests of Siberia,meeting men who suffered, and comforting them. And lo, one evening they walked beside still and stagnant … Continue reading →

Anhelli – Chapter 8 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)

And passing further they beheld many men pale and tortured,whose names are known in the fatherland. And they came to a subterranean lake,and proceeded along the shores of the dark water,which stirred not, but was golden in places from the … Continue reading →

Anhelli – Chapter 2 (Juliusz Slowacki Poems)

The Shaman, when he had searched in the hearts of that multitude of exiles,said to himself: “Verily, I have not found here what I sought;lo, their hearts are weak and they give themselves over to be conquered by grief. “In … Continue reading →