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Bjornstjerne Bjornson's Poetry, by first line

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  • Our Country 1859
    A land there is, lying near far-northern snow,
    Where only the fissures life's springtime may know.
    32 lines
  • The Call
    Come calf now to mother,
    Come lamb that I choose,
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • Evening
    Evening sun in beauty is shining,
    Lazy puss on the step's reclining.
    21 lines
  • Marit's Song
    "Dance!" called the fiddle,
    Its strings loudly giggled,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Love Thy Neighbor
    Love thy neighbor, to Christ be leal!
    Crush him never with iron-heel,
    6 lines, 1 comment
  • Oyvind's Song
    Lift thy head, thou undaunted youth!
    Though some hope may now break, forsooth,
    20 lines
  • Love Song
    Have you love for me,
    Yours my love shall be,
    36 lines
  • Mountain Song
    When you will the mountains roam
    And your pack are making,
    32 lines
  • Those with me
    As on I drive, in my heart joy dwells
    Of Sabbath silence with sound of bells.
    65 lines
  • To my father (upon his retirement)
    In all the land our race was once excelling.
    In richer regions it e'en now possesses
    57 lines
  • To erika lie
    When Norse nature's dower
    Tones will paint with power,
    37 lines
  • To johan sverdrup
    When now my song selects and praises
    Your forceful name, think not it raises
    159 lines
  • The child in our soul
    Toward God in heaven spacious
    With artless faith a boy looks free,
    49 lines
  • Ole gabriel ueland
    Of long toil 't is a matter
    Through many a silent age,
    49 lines
  • To aasmund olafsen vinje (sung at his wife's grave)
    Your house to guests has shelter lent,
    While you with pen were seated.
    41 lines
  • Old heltberg
    I went to a school that was little and proper,
    Both for church and for state a conventional hopper,
    123 lines
  • Landfall
    And that was Olaf Trygvason,
    Going o'er the North Sea grim,
    19 lines
  • TO HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (AT A SUMMER-FÊTE FOR HIM IN CHRISTIANIA, 1871)
    We welcome you this wondrous summer-day,
    When childhood's dreams on earth are streaming,
    23 lines
  • To stang
    May Seventeenth in Eidsvold's church united,
    To hallow after fifty years the day
    101 lines
  • To the dannebrog
    (WHEN DYBBÖL WAS CAPTURED)
    Dannebrog of old was seeming
    18 lines
  • Toast for the men of eidsvold
    'Twas then this land of ours we drew
    From centuries of ice and sorrow,
    17 lines
  • THE NORRÖNA-RACE
    Norröna-race's longing,
    It was the sea's free wave,
    41 lines
  • Kaare's song
    KAARE
    What wakens the billows, while sleeps the wind?
    28 lines
  • IVAR INGEMUNDSON'S LAY
    Wherefore have I longings,
    When to live them strength is lacking?
    81 lines
  • Magnus the blind
    "Oh, let me look once again and see
    Starlight the heavens o'ersweeping!"
    21 lines
  • Sin, death
    Sin and Death, those sisters two,
    Two, two,
    19 lines
  • Frida
    Frida, I knew that thy life-years were counted.
    If but before thee a lifting thought mounted,
    25 lines
  • Bergen
    As thou sittest there
    Skerry-bound and fair,
    37 lines
  • P. a. munch
    Many forms belong to greatness.
    He who now has left us bore it
    232 lines
  • King frederik the seventh
    Our King is bereft of a trusty friend!
    And in dismay
    71 lines
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