Lyric Poem · Death & Loss
Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
Tremble, Kings despised of man!
Ye traitors to your Country,
Tremble! Your parricidal plan
At length shall meet its destiny...
We all are soldiers fit to fight,
But if we sink in glory's night
Our mother Earth will give ye new
The brilliant pathway to pursue
Which leads to Death or Victory...
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“Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/stanza-from-a-translation-of-the-marseillaise-hymn
Quick facts
- Poem
- Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 9 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Death & Loss, War & Remembrance, Short
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- Shape
- 9 lines · one 9-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBStanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 f713daf0eef94d2d…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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