Gustaf Froding Biography
Gustaf Fröding ( August 22, 1860 - February 8, 1911) was a Swedish poet and writer, born in Alster outside Karlstad in Värmland. The family moved to Kristinehamn in the year 1867. He later studied at Uppsala University and worked as a journalist in Karlstad.
His poetry combines formal virtuosity with a sympathy for the ordinary, the neglected and the down-trodden. It is highly musical and lends itself to musical setting; as songs it has developed in to the much wider world of popular music and frequently been re-recorded by Swedish singers like Olle Adolphson and Monica Zetterlund. He wrote openly about his personal problems with alcohol and women and had to face a trial for obscenity for that cause.
He is generally held to be one of the greatest poets of verse that Sweden has ever produced, on par with Carl Michael Bellman.
The evening draws on apace now
The night will be dark and drear;
I ought to go up to my place now,
But 'tis pleasanter far down here.
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HOSIANNAH!
Görer portarna höga och dörrarna vida
och häng slingor av grönt över ringmuren din,
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De kommo från ängen,
och Brunte var hästen,
och Jonte var drängen,
som tjänte hos prästen,
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Hör du ej bjällrorna? Hör du, hur sången
vallar och går och går vilse i vall?
Korna de råma och påskynda gången,
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I.
Med vrede du ser från din gyllne stol,
hur min stjärna slocknar och fläckas,
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