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1 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF HENRIK IBS
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3 recollections. In The Lad in the
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5 would testify to its slow space,
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7 O, blend but your plaining With s
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9 But shoots sprouted forth from th
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11 Round crumbled memorials gyratin
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13 Ha, you spot some earthly Miss,
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15 — But no, — by the shore all
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17 TO THE STAR (Dedicated to C:E:)
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19 Here may the heart find such con
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21 Wretched land! Their finest life
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23 To guard, in Parliament, its rep
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25 But were hope cheated, were it p
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27 Gently hum old songs, provide yo
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29 Kept from sight behind a pendant
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31 The dawning of my life on the fi
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33 True, there’s many a little ma
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35 Nobly the tasks he sustained. So
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37 MOONLIGHT MOOD Wanly shines the
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39 And that contending is its fines
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41 The one fares in the cause of pr
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43 7 I’m thinking of the legend o
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45 And I rushed the trap I’d fash
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47 THE SWAN When the mist autumns b
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49 Yes, indeed! King Christian’s
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51 From there it sarcastically glow
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53 Full many a grieving soul has fo
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55 The fiddle stops and to their gr
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57 In wondrous dreaming visions I t
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59 Yes we, a watch eternal, Shall l
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61 for your backing so far and good
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63 Poured from a horn of silver Fin
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65 Then must the speedy charger Sho
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67 She was no second Freia, All bri
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69 “But though my brothers perish
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71 And Dag sets out for Braalund, A
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73 On Idavold King Helge Strives we
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75 So that its rich, exuberant acco
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77 “He thought that your tears we
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79 Engrave themselves so deep in ou
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81 Far beyond the billows buried. T
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83 It seemed to me the plan compose
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85 Ulrikken, the highest of the mou
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87 So that my poor little flower sh
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89 “No, just the sere, the wind-f
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91 VIII For you must not forget: in
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93 And all my fair flowers, they pe
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95 God knows there were pictures en
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97 XXII My demon visits me by day a
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99 Then you’ll have felt your lip
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101 When epic shield-to-shield fora
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103 A thought that in a forty-year-
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105 FOR THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF
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107 At every sweet word received, S
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109 GREETINGS to HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
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111 SONG preluding SHIP’S MASTER
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113 AT THE ANNIVERSARY of THE 22 ND
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Written to Susannah Thorensen in 18
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117 Ibsen was appointed artistic di
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119 Look towards the whole, not fra
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121 A score of turrets to the sky R
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123 Burns where the rudder races, S
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125 “There I am safe and there I
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127 Brows broke in that contention,
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129 SONG at THE DEDICATION OF THE N
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131 I’ve breathed elegiacal frost
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133 Like some blood-boltered child
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135 Will seek her for their own Ane
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137 And the old man, lone again, St
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139 PROLOGUE, delivered in the Norw
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141 Yes, and what’s worst is, —
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143 Of our songster-faring, songste
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145 No, royal Copenhagen, when all
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249 BALLOON LETTER to a Swedish lad
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251 Memnon’s statue, stone coloss
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253 are like bits of broken friezes
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255 stooled beside the altar-flame.
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257 flag in black-white funeral gui
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259 yours would lead without a brui
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261 That was when my thanks were ow
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263 Thus it is mind’s eye will se
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265 of your substance, rich and fre
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267 They flocked to a flag that sho
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269 round North Cape’s wall, east
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271 a cloudy torpor that frustrates
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273 spread abroad its shroud of dar
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275 slack orders slackly piped —
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277 she has loved through life, a l
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279 FAR DISTANT Our youth will soon
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Munich, 2 nd June 1875 281 The poem
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283 might find it by raking and tur
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285 Prologue for the Norwegian Thea
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287 Gone! 203 A Swan 203 The Gulley