Henrik Johan Ibsen Sleep Poems
- 1. With A Water-lily
SEE, dear, what thy lover brings;
'Tis the flower with the white wings.
Buoyed upon the quiet stream
In the spring it lay adream.
... - 2. The Miner
Beetling rock, with roar and smoke
Break before my hammer-stroke!
Deeper I must thrust and lower
Till I hear the ring of ore.
... - 3. Wildflowers And Hot-house Plants
'GOOD Heavens, man, what a freak of taste!
What blindness to form and feature!
The girl's no beauty, and might be placed
As a hoydenish kind of creature.'
... - 4. Burnt Ships
TO skies that were brighter
Turned he his prows;
To gods that were lighter
Made he his vows.
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