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Each month a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers and in as many languages as possible!Multilingual Monthly Poetry Project is a project oriented to gather multiple translations and multiple contributions of one chosen poem for the current month. Welcome to the world of interpretations!
The poet, while being heavily ill, thought that he was about to die. Feeling the grieve toward the calamity of his Fatherland - Ukraine, he writes this poem as legacy to Ukrainians. Shevchenko tells people of Ukraine that even death won't make him leave his beloved land to go to God until he sees them throwing off the shackles of captivity, bringing Ukraine to its independence.
Poem of June, 2022 - The Testament, by Taras Shevchenko. Language of origin: Ukrainian, "Заповіт". (Summary by Anastasiia Solokha)
Contents:
Ukrainian
01-02 original poem by Taras Shevchenko
Czech
03 translated by Joseph Pelishek
English
04 translated by Voynich, E. L. (Ethel Lillian)
05 translated by Paul Selver
06-07 translated by Alexander Jardine Hunter
French
08 translated by anonymous
09 translated by Mykhailo Tyshkevych
German
10-11 translated by Ivan Franko
12 translated by Arthur Bosch
13 translated by Julia Virginie Scheuermann
14 translated by Johann Georg Obrist
15 translated by Ostap Hrytsaj
Hungarian
16 translated by Varga Bálint and Hiador Sztripszky
Polish
17 translated by Mykola Voronyi
Russian
18-19 translated by Ivan Belousov
20-22 translated by Nikolay Gerbel
23-24 translated by Nikolay Chmyrev
Slovak
25 translated by Juraj Slávik
Spanish
26-27 translated by Volodymyr Lesevych
Swedish
28-29 translated by Alfred Anton Jensen
Public Domain sources for this month's poem are linked below. Please read only from these sources:
Czech (Translator: Joseph Pelishek, published 1913-1914)
English 1 (Translator: Voynich, E. L. (Ethel Lillian), published 1911) Volunteers outside the USA: Voynich, E. L. died in 1960. This work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date.
English 2 (Translator: Paul Selver, published 1919) Volunteers outside the USA: Paul Selver died in 1970. This work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date.
English 3 (Translator: Alexander Jardine Hunter, published 1922) occupied p. 148 of the pdf file
French 1 (Translator: Anonymous, published 1921)
French 2 (Translator: Mykhailo Tyshkevych, published 1917) Click for poem or p. 3 of the djvu file (in the middle of the second column)
German 1 (Translator: Iwan Franko, published 1916)
German 2 (Translator: Arthur Bosch, published 1916)
German 3 (Translator: Julie Virginie Scheuermann, published 1911) p. 76 of the pdf file
German 4 (Translator: Johann Georg Obrist, published 1870)
German 5 (Translator: Ostap Hrytsaj, published 1915) Volunteers outside the USA: Ostap Hrytsaj died in 1954. This work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date.
Hungarian (Translator: Varga Bálint and Hiador Sztripszky, published 1916) click for poem
Polish (Translator: Mykola Voronyi, published 1921) p. 37 of the pdf file
Russian 1 (Translator: Ivan Belousov, published 1906)
Russian 2 (Translator: Nikolay Gerbel, published 1876)
Russian 3 (Translator: Nikolay Chmyrev, published 1874)
Serbian (Translator: Vladimir Nikolich, published 1868)
Slovak (Translator: Yuraj Slavik, published 1911)
Slovenian (Translator: Prevel Josip Abram, published 1907) p. 122 of the pdf file
Spanish (Translator: Volodymyr Lesevych, published 1877) click for poem p. 13 of the pdf file, first column at the top/middle
Swedish (Translator: Alfred Anton Jensen, published 1921)
Ukrainian (original langauge, published 1916)
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