Poetry

In youth

The river sparkles so beautifully,
it chirps so funny in the furnace.
Here I lie lazy as a spoiled son
in the lap of my mother nature.
It sings and smells and shines and smiles
from earth and heaven and all I see.

It is, as if the wind a message carries me
of happy days, which are rimmed,
my blood is in turmoil, I think I'm in love
- in who? - oh in everything that breathes.
I wanted all of heaven and earth
lay close to my heart in girl form.

Gustaf Fröding

Gustaf Fröding was a Swedish writer, journalist and poet. One of his best-known collections of poems is Splashes and Tabs from 1896, which includes the poem A Morning Dream, which got him prosecuted but acquitted.

The poems that are best known and read are all written in the national Swedish language, albeit with the occasional Värmland expression. Fröding often describes the beautiful nature of Värmland in his poems, an environment he knew well from his childhood.

He spent long periods of time in various care institutions because of his mental illness, but what his actual diagnosis was is much debated. He died as a result of his alcoholism and diabetes.

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