Bjornstjerne Bjornson's Poetry, by popularity

• The bier of precentor a. reitan

  With smiles his soft eyes ever gleamed,
  When God and country thinking;

  41 lines
• To sweden

  Lift thou thine ancient yellow-blue!
  Aloft the front must show it.

  53 lines
• Synnove's Song

  Have thanks for all from our childhood's day,
  Our play together in woodland roaming.

  32 lines
• On a wife's death

  With death's dark eye acquainted she had been made ere this,
  When to her son, her first-born, she gave the farewell kiss,

  20 lines
• Sung for norway's riflemen

  Fly the banner, fly the banner!
  For our freedom fight!

  26 lines
• Norwegian students' greeting with a procession to professor welhaven

  Hear us, O age-laden singer!
  Streams of your tones are returning,

  31 lines
• To molde

  Molde, Molde,
  True as a song,

  35 lines
• Post festum

  A man in coat of ice arrayed
  Stood up once by the Arctic Ocean;

  29 lines
• The land that shall be (dedicated to herman anker and m. anker on the

  OCCASION OF THEIR SILVER-WEDDING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1888)
  Land that shall be

  34 lines
• To sculptor borch

  (ON HIS FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY)
  With friends you stalwart stand and fair,

  58 lines
• When norway would not help

  When Kattegat now or the Belt you sail,
  No more will you sight

  42 lines
• Taylor's song

  For joys the hours of earth bestow
  With sorrow thou must pay.

  25 lines
• To johan sverdrup

  When now my song selects and praises
  Your forceful name, think not it raises

  159 lines
• King frederik the seventh

  Our King is bereft of a trusty friend!
  And in dismay

  71 lines
• On the death of n. f. s. grundtvig

  E'en as the Sibyl in Northland-dawn drew
  Forth from the myth-billows gliding,

  13 lines
• The meeting

  (AT THE STUDENT MEETING OF 1869)
  Thoughts toward one another coursing

  34 lines
• Norse nature

  (IN RINGERIKE DURING THE STUDENT MEETING OF 1869)
  We wander and sing with glee

  74 lines
• To my wife

  (WITH A SET OF ROMAN PEARLS)
  Pray, take these pearls!--and my thanks for them

  12 lines
• Song for norway national hymn

  Yes, we love this land that towers
  Where the ocean foams;

  65 lines
• Lector thaasen

  I read once of a flower that lonely grew,
  Apart, with trembling stem and pale of hue;

  41 lines
• Norwegian seamen's song

  Norwegian seamen are
  A folk grown strong 'neath sail and spar;

  57 lines
• P. a. munch

  Many forms belong to greatness.
  He who now has left us bore it

  232 lines
• Song

  Song brings us light with the power of lending
  Glory to brighten the work that we find;

  25 lines
• Romsdal

  Come up on deck! The morning is clear,--
  Memory wakes, as the landmarks appear.

  140 lines
• Norway, norway

  Norway, Norway,
  Rising in blue from the sea's gray and green,

  31 lines
• May seventeenth

  Wergeland's statue on May seventeenth
  Saw the procession. And as its rear-guard,

  31 lines
• Our language

  Thou, who sailest Norse mountain-air,
  And Denmark's songs by the cradle singest,

  60 lines
• Song for the students' glee club

  Now, brothers, sing out our song,
  Whose train of light shall follow long!

  43 lines
• To johan dahl, bookdealer

  (ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY)
  Our glasses we lift now and drink to our host!

  47 lines
• To the dannebrog

  (WHEN DYBBÖL WAS CAPTURED)
  Dannebrog of old was seeming

  18 lines

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