How can I tell - Karin Boye

How can I tell if your voice is beautiful.
I only know, that it penetrates me
and makes me shake like a leaf
and tears me to shreds and splits me.

And then I sat me down - Gustaf Rosenhane

And then I sat me down, and gave the rein
To my wild thoughts, till many a song that rang
From boughs around where hidden warblers sang
Recalled me from myself; then “Oh! in vain,”
I said, “do these outpour the tender strain?

To Ulla - Carl Michael Bellman

Ulla, mine Ulla, tell me, may I hand thee
Reddest of strawberries in milk or wine?
Or from the pond a lively fish? Command me!

Ballad - Dan Andersson

My passion was born in the lusty spring
At the strand of the river tumbling blue.
Wild honey I drank in the years of my youth
In meadows drenched with midnight dew.

Family Portraits - Anna Maria Lenngren

Upon an old estate, her father's heritage, 
A shrivelled countess dowager 
Had vegetated half an age; 

Love - Esaias Tegnér

Love! our being's waking bliss! 
Spirit garb of Happiness! 
Heaven's halo, sent to shine 
O'er a world no more divine! 

Song - Olof von Dalin

Magpie sits on the old church spire,
The goose in the oven roasting;
And he who has his heart’s desire
Has no need for idle boasting. 

O the Chimneys - Nelly Sachs

O the chimneys
On the carefully planned dwellings of death
When Israel’s body rose dissolved in smoke

Day by day, God’s gracious love surrounds me - Lina Sandell

Day by day, God’s gracious love surrounds me

As a balm to soothe my troubled heart.

Countless cares and worries that confound me

Fade away or quietly depart,

For His heart is kind beyond all measure,

And He comforts us as He knows best.

Deep in a Vale - Gustaf Rosenhane

Deep in a vale where rocks on every side

Shut out the winds, and scarcely let the sun

Between them dart his rays down one by one,

Where all was still and cool in summer-tide,

And softly, with her whispering waves that sighed,

A little river, that had scarce begun

Who knocks in the peace of the evening so light - Lina Sandell

Who knocks in the peace of the evening so light

At your heart's door?

Who comes then with healing so pleasant and bright

To cure the heart' s sorrow and much more?

The Birds of Passage - Erik Johan Stagnelius

Behold! the birds fly 

From Gauthiod’s strand, 

And seek with a sigh 

Some far foreign land. 

The Lily Of The Valley - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

O'er hill and dale the welcome news is flying

That summer's drawing near;

Out of my thicket cool, my cranny hidden,

Around I shyly peer.

Lord Jesus, give me shelter - Lina Sandell

Lord Jesus, give me shelter,

hide me beneath your wings.

You are my safe protection;

to you my spirit sings.

Let My Shadow Disappear Into Yours - Par Lagerkvist

Let my shadow disappear into yours.

The Horizon (A conversation between a child and its mother) - Frans Michael Franzén

"See! where to earth bends down the sky! 

See how the morning clouds up-roIlcd 

Tinge the far forest with their gold. 

And we delay — both thou and I, 

To go to heaven, my mother dear, 

When every day it is ho near."

Departure - Erik Axel Karlfeldt

The black woods murmur

like psalm singing around the leaning cross of the fathers,

and dull as a watchful bumblebee

behind the ridges fades the Avesta rapids.

Memory - Erik Johan Stagnelius

O camp of flowers, with poplars girdled round,

Grey guardians of life’s soft and purple bud!

Thank you, Lord, for all your goodness - August L. Storm

Thank you, Lord, for all your goodness

Through the years of yesterday;

Thank you, too, for present mercies

And your blessing on my way.

Whoever Comes From The Earth - Nelly Sachs

Whoever

comes from the Earth

reaching for the moon

or

other heavenly mineral flower –

will soar high