# Taras Shevchenko's best-known lines (with the poem)

From "The Testament" and "The wide Dnieper roars and groans" to "A cherry orchard by the house" and "Fight and you will win!": the lines by Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) every Ukrainian knows by heart, with the poem and year.

- 43 votes · 11 items
- Jul 27, 2024 · Наталія Кравченко
- https://even.best/en/l/5294/taras-shevchenko-s-best-known-lines-with-the-poem

## Top 11

1. **Bury me, then rise up / and break your chains, / and sprinkle your freedom / with the enemy's evil blood.** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Poem "The Testament" (1845).
2. **When I die, bury me / in a grave / amid the wide steppe / of my beloved Ukraine** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Poem "The Testament" (1845).
3. **And in the great new family, / the family of the free, / do not forget to remember me / with a kind and quiet word.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Poem "The Testament" (1845).
4. **Fight and you will win: / God is helping you!** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Poem "The Caucasus" (1845).
5. **The wide Dnieper roars and groans, / the angry wind howls** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Poem "The Bewitched Woman" (1837).
6. **In your own house, your own truth, / and strength, and freedom.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Poem "To My Countrymen, Living, Dead and Unborn" (1845).
7. **Learn, my brothers! / Think and read, / and learn from others, / but do not shun your own.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Poem "To My Countrymen, Living, Dead and Unborn" (1845).
8. **It does not matter to me whether I will / live in Ukraine or not.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Poem "It Does Not Matter to Me" (1847).
9. **A cherry orchard by the house, / beetles buzzing over the cherry trees** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Poem "A Cherry Orchard by the House" (1847).
10. **Our thought, our song / will not die, will not perish… / There, people, is our glory, / the glory of Ukraine!** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Poem "To Osnovianenko" (1839).
11. **Fall in love, dark-browed girls, / but not with Muscovites** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Poem "Kateryna" (1838).

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