Anthology of Swedish Lyrics from 1750 to 1915, Том 9

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Charles Wharton Stork
American-Scandinavian foundation, 1917 - 280 стор.

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Сторінка 195 - They danced as with bodies of tow set afire, All jumping like grasshoppers higher and higher, And heel it rang sharp upon stone. The coat-tails they fluttered, the aprons they flew, And braids were a-flapping and skirts flung askew, While the music would whimper and drone. Then in birch, or in alder, or hazel thicket There was whispering light as the chirp of a cricket From the depths of the darkness near. Over stock, over stone, there was flight and pursuing, And under green boughs there was billing...
Сторінка 166 - Aye, close to a cliff let our people stand Where a fool his poor neck may shatter. There are other things, men, to hold in your hand Than a brim-full Egyptian platter. It were better the plate should be split in two Than that hearts should rot when still living. That no race may be more great than you, — That's the goal, why count we the striving? It were better to feel the avenger's might Than that years unto naught should have hasted, It were better our people should perish quite And our fields...
Сторінка 230 - ... manly charm. Fridolin dances free, He is filled with the memory Of his sire and grandsire who danced there long Before to that old melody. Ye sleep now, ye sires, on the festival night, And stilled is the hand that could fiddle with might, For your life — like your day — is a murmuring song That echoes a wistful delight. But Fridolin dances free — Your son, and a brave lad he; He can talk in the peasant style with a churl, And in Latin to men of degree. His scythe goes sharp through the...
Сторінка 80 - Anthology of Swedish Lyrics " translated by CHARLES WHARTON STORK. Laughter without a home Wandering mournfully, Came to the great man's lips: " May I have lodging here? " — " This is the home of Pride" Laughter without a home Wandering mournfully, Came to a scholar's lips:
Сторінка 228 - I'd wallow, Give me but the blades that follow Melting snows in pine-dark hollow, And the earliest thrush's tune. Best the lover's time of waiting, Of betrothal ere the mating. Spring has naught so captivating As a secret sweetheart fair. Seldom with her, soon asunder, He will dream the strange wild wonder Life so soon for him may bear. Golden fruit, let others shake it, Mine be not the hand to take it, For my garden I'd forsake it When the trees are budding there.
Сторінка 167 - ... the avenger's might Than that years unto naught should have hasted, It were better our people should perish quite And our fields and cities be wasted. It is braver to take the dice's hap Than to mope till our fire is expended; It is finer to hear the bow-string snap Than never the bow to have bended. I wake in the night, but I hear no sound Save the waters seething and churning. Like a soldier of Judah, prone on the ground, I could pray with passionate yearning. I ask not years when the sun shines...
Сторінка 194 - THE DANCE BY THE ROADSIDE They danced by the roadside on Saturday night, And the laughter resounded to left and to right , With shouts of "Hip, hip!
Сторінка 161 - Fellow-Citizens. As sure as we have a fatherland We are heirs to it one with another, By common right in an equal band, The rich and his needy brother.
Сторінка 241 - With a merry turn in the play of the rhyme; 'Tis the task of a poet to sing. And should any poem of mine recall The surge of the storm, the cataract's fall, Some thought with a manly ring, A lark's note, the glow of the heath, somehow, Or the sigh of the woodland vast — You sang in silence through ages past That song by your cart and your plough.

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