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This, contrary to Södergran’s first collection, was published upon demand in 1918.

The main topic of this collection was her self-perception, coming to term with her illness as well as herself as a literary figure.

Moreover, this is the collection where it was first becoming obvious that she counted Nietzsche among her influencers.

Category: The September Lyre

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: God Is Still Awake

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

What is wrong with me?– The notebook for my publisher– then all is well.The moon rises – my longing goes to bed.My longing throws itself on the bedand laughs infernally:God is still awake –blessed sleepless angels around his throne!

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Hope

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I will be straight-forward –therefore I don’t care for noble stylesand roll up my sleeves.The dough of the poem swells…Oh, what a sorrow –.to not be able to bake cathedrals…The greatness of the forms –the goal of the persistent longing.Present-child,is […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Orpheus

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I transform the snakes into angels.Raise your heads! Rise onto your tails!A second… and nobody hisses anymore.Blessed they lay at my feet,intoxicated by dreams, and kiss the folds of my cloak.I touch the lyre. A wind passes over the Earth,silent, […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Why Was Life Given To Me?

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Why was life given to meto rush past everybody in the chariot of triumph,unachievable, fast as fate,unconscious and without will,in perpetual longing? Why was life given to meto, with hands decorated with rings,to grasp the beaming bowlI conjured upin steady […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Fragment

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

– – – – – – – – – –– – – – – – – – – –– – – – the germs of life thrive on your slimy skin.Skywards striving city, you haven’t broken my heart:all your people […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: My Lyre

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I resent the thought…Where is my giant, beloved lyre?The sunshine-stringed, magnificent, which hangs down from the clouds.Oh you my giant lyre,you hang over the world like a question mark.– – – – – – – – –When I dieI’ll throw […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: The Bard’s Song

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Mysterious moon!In an hour you rise –and golden everythingwith African fantasies.I stand with the lyrein the darkness of the yard.The King’s daughter in the towerthrows stars to me.The wood lake smiles suddenly –Oh, pearls, gold and silver! –the capes layas eternal […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: The Characteristic

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Is God unfaithful?Does he chase his boldest angels from Heaven?No – I say:He gave me honey and wormwood.The tough, dark mass I poured out on the ground. The form lasted.He gave me a dark red rose –the smallest in the […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Am I a Liar…

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Am I a criminal, my sin is great…Am I a jest, am I with holy things…Am I a liar, let me then plummet from Heavenand be crushed on your square. Am I a liar –then let unholy spirits bury my […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Don’t Collect Gold and Jewels

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Humans,don’t collect gold and jewels:fill your hearts with longing,that burns like red-hot coals.Steal the rubies from the angels’ gazes,drink the cold water of the devil’s pool.Humans, don’t collect treasurethat make you beggars;collect richesthat give you royal power.Gift your children a […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Dawn

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I shine my light over all of the Atlantic…Unknown worlds, nocturnal landswake towards me!I am the cold dawn.I am the merciless goddess of the dayin misty grey veilswith the blinking helmet of the early morning.Light, light my winds run over […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: The Most Beautiful God

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My heart is the most beautiful one in the world.It is holy.Whoever sees itmust themselves shine with its glow.My heart is light as a bird,the most fragile form on Earth.I sacrificed itto an unknown god.The god highest up in the […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: At Nietzsche’s Grave

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The great hunter has died…I drape over his grave warm flower carpets.I kiss the cold rock and say:here’s your first child in tears of joy.Chuckling I sit on your gravelike an insult – more beautiful than you dreamt.Enigmatic father!Your children […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Foam

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The champagne of lifewe drink pearlylight as foamtransparentchampagne-hearts… Champagne-eyes –the sky winks promisingly at you. Champagne-feet –follow your star Champagne-spirits –the glass cheers in your hands!

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Light Patches

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I have powers. I fear nothing.Light is heaven to me.If the world comes to an end –I shall not perish.My light horizons standover the stormy night of the Earth.Step out of the mysterious light patch!Unyielding my power waits.

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Carefreeness

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

I don’t believe in humans.I’d have crushed my lyreif I didn’t believe in God.God shows me the wayout of the fog to the sun’s shining orb.He loves those who wander lightfootedly.Therefore he gave me all this carefreeness.I believe in him as […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: The Train of the Future

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Tear down all gates of honour –they’re too low.Make room for our amazing train!Heavy is the future – build bridgesfor endless time! Giants, carry rocks from the end of the world!Demons, pour oil on the kettles!Monster, calculate the width with […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: The Armoured Trains

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Fifty wagons with hope I had loaded for your America.They returned empty…The freight of disappointment…Now I’ll send armoured trains with rockhard masks in threatening peepholes:Wagons with achieval will return home by the thousands.

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: The Genie of the Apocalypse (fragment)

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Humans, it swells in my breast.Flames, smoke and the stench of burned flesh:it is the war.– – – – – – – –I’ve come from the war – I arose out of chaos –I am the elements – in biblical […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: The Condition

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Without actionI cannot live,chained to the lyre I would die.Is the lyre indeed the greatest on Earth for meI stayed true to it,was I not a flaming soul.The one who doesn’t with bloody nailsbreak a crack in the wall of […]

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