Poems and SongsAmerican-Scandinavian Foundation, 1915 - 264 стор. |
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Сторінка xi
... 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 ex- plained by the lines just quoted from the poem ...
... 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 ex- plained by the lines just quoted from the poem ...
Сторінка xii
... nation " is he who " does the pro- phet's deeds , " who " rallies now the present's hosts , " and " frees , -by right eternal . " Poet and prophet Björnson was , but more than all else the leader of the Norwegian people , " where loud ...
... nation " is he who " does the pro- phet's deeds , " who " rallies now the present's hosts , " and " frees , -by right eternal . " Poet and prophet Björnson was , but more than all else the leader of the Norwegian people , " where loud ...
Сторінка xiii
... nation into fuller and higher life . In his many - sided- ness Björnson was also in his time the first skald of his people , almost equally endowed with genius as a narra- tive , a dramatic , and a lyric poet ; with talents scarcely ...
... nation into fuller and higher life . In his many - sided- ness Björnson was also in his time the first skald of his people , almost equally endowed with genius as a narra- tive , a dramatic , and a lyric poet ; with talents scarcely ...
Сторінка xxi
... nation the historic past and the evolving present , and forecast the future . Simplifying the meaning of life , he accomplished the mission which he himself made the ideal of The Poet , and became for his own people the liberalizing ...
... nation the historic past and the evolving present , and forecast the future . Simplifying the meaning of life , he accomplished the mission which he himself made the ideal of The Poet , and became for his own people the liberalizing ...
Сторінка xxii
... nation or the inner life of other human beings . For him Norway's scenery is filled with the glory of the nation's past , the promise of its future , or the needs of the present . The poems that contain nature descriptions are primarily ...
... nation or the inner life of other human beings . For him Norway's scenery is filled with the glory of the nation's past , the promise of its future , or the needs of the present . The poems that contain nature descriptions are primarily ...
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battle bearing beauty Bergen Björnson born cheer Christian Christiania church Copenhagen Danish Dannebrog daring death deeds Denmark died dreams Einar eternal eyes fair faith father fight fjord flag flag of Norway flowers freedom future gave glad greet Grundtvig Haakon Haakon Jarl Hamar-made matches Harald Harald Fairhair Harald Gille heart heaven Henrik Wergeland Herman Anker honor Johan JOHAN SVERDRUP King land life's lift light of God's lyric Magnus melody memory Molde morning mountains N. F. S. GRUNDTVIG nation neath never night Norse Norsemen Northern Norway Norway's Norwegian o'er ocean Olaf Trygvason peace peasants poet political pure rumbled yonder sail Scandinavism SIGURD SLEMBE sing skald smiling soon sorrow soul spirit stand Stanza stood Storting student sunshine-day Sweden Swedish thanks thee thine Thou thought twined unto victory Vinje wander Welhaven Wergeland words written youth
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Сторінка 23 - As our fathers' conflict gave it Vict'ry at the end, Also we, when time shall crave it, Will its peace defend. " In the year 1881 speaking at the unveiling of the statue of Wergeland in Christiania Bjornson said that he and Norway's constitution grew up together. In a broader and higher sense we may say that Bjornson and Norway's full freedom and independence grew up together to the completeness that was...
Сторінка 21 - Yes, we love this land that towers Where the ocean foams; Rugged, storm swept, it embowers Many thousand homes.
Сторінка 246 - I was sitting in my garret room in the Upper Wall Street giving a lesson to a young lady, some one in the street pulled the bell cord as if he were trying to tear out the whole thing. Then there was a clattering as if a wild horde were breaking in, and a voice shouting, 'Forward! Forward! Hurrah! I have it! Forward!