The Kalevala – Rune III (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Passed his years in full contentment,On the meadows of Wainola,On the plains of Kalevala,Singing ever wondrous ...
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Passed his years in full contentment,On the meadows of Wainola,On the plains of Kalevala,Singing ever wondrous ...
'Among many nations was there no King like him.' -Nehemiah, xiii, 26. 'Know ye not that there is a ...
Untiring all the weary dayThe widow toiled with care,And scarcely cleared her furrowed browWhen came the hour of prayer;The voices, ...
WHEN THE AUTHOR HAD NO SAVING KNOW-LEDGE OF CHRIST.I LOVE to lie quite still in Sleep's soft arms,And let my ...
He had been with the Indians all the day, But sat with us at eve,Chatting and laughing in his genial ...
And is it so? Look at creation round!See you how fair, how beautiful it is,How form'd to bless, how exquisite ...
In London city was Bicham born,He longd strange countries for to see,But he was taen by a savage Moor,Who handld ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire,A crucible of molten steel, O France!Your sons are stars who cluster to ...
Dark lowers our fate,And terrible the storm that gathers o'er us;But nothing, till that latest agonyWhich severs thee from nature, ...
O PRISON-HOUSE of sighing!Where the weary and the worn,The long-pent and the dying,Lie friendless and forlorn;Where sickness preys on weariness,And ...
From what sad star I know not, but I found Myself new-born below the coppice rail, ...
Shall Virginia sleep onTill her liberties are gone?Shall the plottings of her foesGo unchecked beneath her nose?Can she, unresisting, seeWomen ...
Maecenas, I propose to fly To realms beyond these human portals;No common things shall be my wings, But such as ...
Creature of air and light,Emblem of that which cannot die,Wilt thou not speed thy flight,To chase the south wind through ...
And over the shadows of my lifeStole the light of a peace divine.Oh! then my task was a sacred thing,How ...
Whither, oh! whither wilt thou wing thy way? What solemn region first upon thy sight Shall break, unveiled for terror ...
The prison-house in which I live Is falling to decay, But God renews my spirit's strength, Within these walls of ...
When dainty Mona walks this way My foolish heart will beat, And leaves me, though I turn aside, To lie ...
The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke. For view there are the houses opposite Cutting the sky with one ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
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