Poems and Songs

By Bjornson, Bjornstjerne M.

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Title:	Poems and Songs
Author:	Bjornson, Bjornstjerne M.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt
Introduction: BJORNSON. AS A LYRIC POET I lived far more than e?er I sang; Thought, ire, and mirth unceasing rang Around me, where I guested; To be where loud life?s battles call For me was well?nigh more than all My pen on page arrested. What?s true and strong has growing?room, And will perhaps eternal bloom, Without black ink?s salvation, And he will be, who least it planned, But in life?s surging dared to stand, The best bard for his nation. A life seventy?seven years long and but two hundred pages of lyrical production, more than half of which was written in about a dozen years! The seeming disproportion is explained by the lines just quoted from the poem Good Cheer, with which Bjornson concluded the first edition of his Poems and Songs. Alongside of these stanzas, in which the cause of his popularity and powerful influence is also unconsciously revealed, may well be placed the following one from The Poet, which discloses to us the larger conception of the mission that Bjornson himself in all his work and life, no less than in his lyrics, so finely fulfilled.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Poems and Songs, 1 -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson, 1 -- Introduction, 4 -- SYNNOVE'S SONG, 8 -- THE HARE AND THE FOX, 9 -- NILS FINN, 10 -- THE MAIDENS' SONG, 12 -- THE DOVE, 12 -- THE MOTHER'S SONG, 13 -- LAMBKIN MINE, 13 -- BALLAD OF TAILOR NILS, 14 -- VENEVIL, 15 -- OVER THE LOFTY MOUNTAINS, 17 -- THE DAY OF SUNSHINE, 19 -- INGERID SLETTEN, 20 -- THE TREE, 21 -- THE MELODY, 22 -- OUR COUNTRY, 23 -- SONG FOR NORWAY, 24 -- THE CALL, 26 -- EVENING, 27 -- MARIT'S SONG, 28 -- LOVE THY NEIGHBOR, 29 -- OYVIND'S SONG, 29 -- LOVE SONG, 30 -- MOUNTAIN SONG, 31 -- ANSWER FROM NORWAY TO THE SPEECHES IN THE SWEDISH HOUSE OF NOBLES, 18260 -- JOHAN LUDVIG HEIBERG, 34 -- THE OCEAN, 37 -- ALONE AND REPENTANT, 39 -- THE PRINCESS, 39 -- FROM MONTE PINCIO, 40 -- IF ONLY YOU KNEW IT, 41 -- THE ANGELS OF SLEEP, 42 -- THE MAIDEN ON THE SHORE, 42 -- SECRET LOVE, 43 -- OLAF TRYGVASON, 44 -- A SIGH, 44 -- TO A GODSON, 45 -- BERGLIOT, 46 -- TO MY WIFE, 51 -- IN A HEAVY HOUR, 51 -- KAARE'S SONG, 52 -- IVAR INGEMUNDSON'S LAY, 52 -- MAGNUS THE BLIND, 55 -- SIN, DEATH, 56 -- FRIDA, 57 -- Poems and Songs -- i