The Rose Altar

The world is mine.Wherever I goI throw roses to everybody.The artist loves every marble ear … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Roses

Stars up there, definitively dear, my heart on Earth is definitively clear.Wondrous starry night, we … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Scherzo

Hear the bell toll.It’s the hour of the victim.The bell tolls.What more must you sacrifice?You’ve … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Hour of the Victim

I.Wind, wind, wind!Sprinkle roses and daffodils from the garden of my memory,where my young dreams … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Fragment of a Mood

Oh Dionysos, you come from the distant heavenly spaces with the horses of the sun.The Earth … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Dionysos

Sister, my sister, you are still small,but have long since seen God,blessed is your brow, oh … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Sister, My Sister

The godchild sat with me.The golden lyre sang under my hands.The god-child stare towards endless … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Godchild

Who can love you, sister?Won’t a god with darkened face embrace you with his arms?Doesn’t … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Something Inexplicable Is Approaching Us

I once had a sister, a golden child.In the city she disappeared for me in the … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Sister

No, no, no shout all the echoes in the forest.I have no sister.I am lifting … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: All the Echoes in the Forest

In walk in the desertand sit lonely on the mountains,on the Devil’s rock,where sorrows have … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: I Believe In My Sister

I didn’t find love. I met nobody.Trembling I passed Zarathustra’s grave in the autumn nights:who … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: In the Darkness

Letter from my sister.What can letters saywhen I see you!Does the hair not fall lightly … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Letter From My Sister

Sister,you come like a spring wind to our valleys…The violets in the shadow smell sweetly … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Spring Mystery

The martyr is pale.His eyes burn.Pitying he looksdown at you. What do you know aboutwhat … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Martyr

I saw beauty.It was my fate! It explains everything.How thank for it?Fresh roses, picked with … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Statue of Beauty

Facing the eyes of all the worldsyou must decide…Will you enter the ring…?Nobody enters the ring … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Ring

I will light my torches all over the Earth.My torch shall standon each and every … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Torches

I need nothing but God’s mercy.Through life I go as if intoxicated.– – – – … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: Questions

Careful, careful,what do you press to your chest?Do they resemble youlike these seas resemblethe ocean … Continue ReadingEdith Södergran: The Song About the Ocean