The Kalevala – Rune XI (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
LEMMINKAINEN'S LAMENT.This the time to sing of Ahti,Son of Lempo, Kaukomieli,Also known as Lemminkainen.Ahti was the king of islands,Grew amid ...
LEMMINKAINEN'S LAMENT.This the time to sing of Ahti,Son of Lempo, Kaukomieli,Also known as Lemminkainen.Ahti was the king of islands,Grew amid ...
WAINAMOINEN'S BOAT-BUILDING.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,The eternal wisdom-singer,For his boat was working lumber,Working long upon his vessel,On a fog-point jutting seaward,On an ...
The rum was rich and rare,There were wagers in the air,The atmosphere was rosy, and the tongues were ...
Oh! bright are the names of the chieftains and sages,That shine like the stars through the darkness of ages,Whose deeds ...
Oh! Dreams are mysteries! The free born mindOwns not the fetters which the body wears,By sleep imposed. But starting from ...
(A Response to Judge Mulligan's Famous Toast.) The moonlight may be softest In Kentucky, And summer ...
Poet.Beautiful silver-winged spirits of good,That hide in the leaves of the loneliest wood;Green-kirtled fairies whom none may seeBut the soul ...
Where the thistle lifts a purple crown Six foot out of the turf, And the harebell shakes on ...
We saw thee, O stranger, and wept!We look'd for the youth of the sunny glance,Whose step was the fleetest in ...
'Mid wattle scents and sounds of Spring,The old man, dreaming in his chair,Is back where skylarks soar and singIn sunshine, ...
When Lent and Responsions are ended,When May with fritillaries waits,When the flower of the chestnut is splendid,When drags are at ...
For why the gains doth seldom quit the charge: And so say I by proof too dearly bought, My haste ...
Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all ...
I sent a message to my dear -- A thousand leagues and more to Her -- The dumb sea-levels thrilled ...
Long I followed happy guides,- I could never reach their sides. Their step is forth, and, ere the day, Breaks ...
Where the thistle lifts a purple crown Six foot out of the turf, And the harebell shakes on the windy ...
Life, you've been mighty good to me, Yet here's the end of the trail; No more mountain, moor and sea, ...
MY faint spirit was sitting in the light Of thy looks, my love; It panted for thee like the hind ...
NOT the soul that's whitest Wakens love the sweetest: When the heart is lightest Oft the charm is fleetest. While ...
Across the meadow in brooding shadow I walk to drink of the autumn's wine The charm of story, the artist's ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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