JOURNAL IN CEPHALONIA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRONPoet AnalysisPoet's Biography
First Line: The dead have been awaken'd - shall I sleep? Last Line: Its echo in my heart -- Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
THE dead have been awaken'd -- shall I sleep? The World's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? 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 --
