Excerpt from Poems and Songs
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.
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