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Bjornstjerne Bjornson's Poetry, by written

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  • Good Cheer
    So let these songs their story tell
    To all who in the Northland dwell,
    104 lines
  • The Ocean
    … Oceanward I am ever yearning,
    Where far it rolls in its calm and grandeur,
    83 lines, 3 comments
  • 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
  • Johan Ludvig Heiberg 1860
    To the grave they bore him sleeping,
      Him the aged, genial gardener;
    84 lines
  • Synnove's Song
    Have thanks for all from our childhood's day,
    Our play together in woodland roaming.
    32 lines
  • The Hare And The Fox
    The fox lay still by the birch-tree's root
    In the heather.
    21 lines
  • Nils Finn
    Now little Nils Finn had away to go;
    The skis were too loose at both heel and toe.
    27 lines
  • The Maiden's Song
    Good-morning, sun, 'mid the leaves so green --
    Mind of youth in the dales' deep reaches,
    12 lines
  • The Dove
    I saw a dove fear-daunted,
    By howling storm-blast driven;
    8 lines
  • The Mother's Song
    Lord! Oh, hold in Thy hand my child,
    Guard by the river its playing!
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • Lambkin Mine
    Kille, kille, lambkin mine,
    Though it often be hard to climb
    12 lines
  • Ballad Of Tailor Nils
    If you were born before yesterday,
    Surely you've heard about Tailor Nils, who flaunts him so gay.
    22 lines
  • Venevil
    Fair Venevil hastened with tripping feet
    Her lover to meet.
    44 lines
  • Over The Lofty Mountains
    Wonder I must, what I once may see
    Over the lofty mountains!
    48 lines, 2 comments
  • The Day Of Sunshine
    It was such a lovely sunshine-day,
    The house and the yard couldn't hold me;
    40 lines
  • Ingerid Sletten
    Ingerid Sletten of Sillejord
    Neither gold nor silver did own,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Tree
    Ready with leaves and with buds stood the tree.
    "Shall I take them?" the frost said, now puffing with glee.
    15 lines
  • The Melody
    The youth in the woods spent the whole day long,
    The whole day long;
    28 lines
  • Alone And Repentant
    A friend I possess, whose whispers just said,
    "God's peace!" to my night-watching mind.
    16 lines
  • The Princess
    The princess looked down from her bower high,
    The youth blew his horn as he lingered thereby.
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • 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
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