The Ocean (Bjornstjerne Bjornson Poems)
… Oceanward I am ever yearning,Where far it rolls in its calm and grandeur,The weight of mountain-like fogbanks bearing,Forever wandering ...
… Oceanward I am ever yearning,Where far it rolls in its calm and grandeur,The weight of mountain-like fogbanks bearing,Forever wandering ...
So let these songs their story tellTo all who in the Northland dwell, Since many friends request it.(That Finland's folk ...
In all the land our race was once excelling.In richer regions it e'en now possessesBroad seats and fruitful; but by ...
To the grave they bore him sleeping, Him the aged, genial gardener;Now the children gifts are heaping From the flower-bed ...
Evening is coming, the sun waxes red,Radiant colors from heaven are beamingLife's lustrous longings in infinite streaming;—Glory in death o'er ...
Fair Venevil hastened with tripping feet Her lover to meet.He sang, so it rang o'er the church far ...
Wonder I must, what I once may see Over the lofty mountains!Eyes shall meet only snow, may be;Standing here, each ...
It was such a lovely sunshine-day, The house and the yard couldn't hold me;I roved to the woods, on my ...
Molde, Molde, True as a song,Billowy rhythms whose thoughts fill with love me,Follow thy form in ...
Toward God in heaven spaciousWith artless faith a boy looks free, As toward his mother gracious,And top of Christmas-tree.But early ...
With smiles his soft eyes ever gleamed, When God and country thinking;With endless joy, his soul, it seemed, Faith, fatherland, ...
A land there is, lying near far-northern snow,Where only the fissures life's springtime may know.But surging, the sea tells of ...
… O'er uplands fresh swift sped my sleigh…A light snow fell; along the way Stood firs and birches slender.The former ...
Have thanks for all from our childhood's day, Our play together in woodland roaming.I thought that play would go on ...
Now little Nils Finn had away to go;The skis were too loose at both heel and toe. —"That's too bad!" ...
Give us, God, to Thee now turning,Fullness of joy, tears full and burning,Of will the full refining fire!Hear our prayer ...
The youth in the woods spent the whole day long, The whole day long;For there he had heard ...
A man in coat of ice arrayed Stood up once by the Arctic Ocean; The whole earth shook with proud ...
(AT A SUMMER-F?TE FOR HIM IN CHRISTIANIA, 1871)We welcome you this wondrous summer-day,When childhood's dreams on earth are streaming,To bloom ...
Have you love for me,Yours my love shall be, While the days of life are flowing.Short was summer's stay,Grass now ...
When you will the mountains roam And your pack are making,Put therein not much from home, Light shall be your ...
Ingerid Sletten of Sillejord Neither gold nor silver did own, But a little hood of gay wool alone,Her mother had ...
The fox lay still by the birch-tree's root In the heather.The hare was running with nimble foot ...
Evening sun in beauty is shining,Lazy puss on the step's reclining. "Two small mice, Cream that ...
The princess looked down from her bower high,The youth blew his horn as he lingered thereby."Be quiet, O youth, will ...
Ready with leaves and with buds stood the tree."Shall I take them?" the frost said, now puffing with glee. ...
Fly the banner, fly the banner!For our freedom fight!'Neath the banner, 'neath the banner,Riflemen unite!Graybeard in the StortingGives his vote ...
A friend I possess, whose whispers just said, "God's peace!" to my night-watching mind.When daylight is gone and darkness brings ...
Lift thy head, thou undaunted youth!Though some hope may now break, forsooth,Brighter a new one and higherShall throe eye fill ...
Dance! called the fiddle, Its strings loudly giggled, The bailiff's man wriggled Ahead for a spree."Hold!" shouted Ola And tripped ...
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