Living wellsprings : the hymns, songs, and poems of N.F.S. Grundtvig / Edward Broadbridge (translator and editor) ; introduction, Uffe Jonas.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"'All my Living Wellsprings are in you', says God to His people in Psalm 87:7. The title seems apt for the poetic works of the Danish poet-pastor N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) who wrote over a third of the hymns in the present Danish Hymnbook as poet, adaptor, or translator. Living Wellsprings contains a wide selection of Grundtvig's best-known hymns and songs along with a number of his shorter poems - 162 items in all - in new translations. This is the first comprehensive collection of the poetry of one of the pre-eminent builders of the Danish nation, who regarded Danish history, language, and song as absolutely indispensable to the life of what he termed 'the state, the church, and the school'. As part of its agenda to digitalise and translate Grundtvig's vast output, the Grundtvig Study Centre at Aarhus University is pleased to publish this second volume in the series, 'N.F.S. Grundtvig: Works in English'. Volume 1, The School for Life, contains Grundtvig's major writings on education. Future volumes will deal with his philosophy, his politics, and his theology."--

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Sing the Lord's praises, my mouth and my being! -- Grant me, God, a voice for singing -- All who are given wings to fly -- Little God's child, what troubles you? -- Welcome, new year of our Lord (Advent) -- Then the wilderness shall bloom -- O ring in now a Christmas blessed -- We greet you again, God's angels bright -- A little child was gladly born -- A child is born in Bethlehem -- Jesus Christ, how we praise your name -- Lovely is the midnight sky -- How wonderful to voice it -- There sat a fisherman deep in thought -- When her son gave up the spirit -- With her jar of alabaster -- A sower went to sow his field -- Woman, how great is your faith! -- Blessed were you, the eyes that saw him -- Hail, our reconciling saviour -- This night came a knock at the portals of Hell -- Christ is risen from the dead -- In bonds of death our saviour lay -- Easter dawning ends all mourning -- A rose-red sun proclaims the dawn -- Easter flower, why are you not here -- Take the black cross from the gravestone -- Awake and see, all Christendom -- Come, let us drink of that water again -- Come, you souls redeemed so dearly -- All Christendom, lift up your head -- The apostles were met in Jerusalem -- Were you not all Galileans -- O Holy Spirit, let us pray -- The sun now shines in all its splendour -- Sent out abroad from the life-giving Lord -- Spirit of all truth and love -- Advocate, on earth your sighing -- The kingdom of our Lord on earth -- In our midst we find God's kingdom -- O life lived in Christ! -- God's Church of Christ is universal -- Christ's Church as a rock among us -- He has come down to visit us -- All things rest in God's own hand -- How happy the people with ears for the sounds -- The ancient days like mighty rivers -- God's voice spoke above the waters -- Lord God, the heavens proclaim your great glory -- My heart and my mouth made -- God's word is our inheritance -- We welcome with joy this blesséd day -- This is the day the Lord Jesus has given -- The deer in her running grows thirsty -- Homely your dwelling -- All my living wellsprings in you shall begin -- O let your spirit here abiding -- See, his arms are open wide -- O Lamb of God -- Memory of a faithful friend -- Jesus Christ, my life you gave me -- Let every Christian man rejoice -- To bid this world farewell aright -- I know of a land -- Saints on earth and saints in heaven -- If you are feeling low, dear friend -- Dear child, sleep sweetly -- God's grace is born of royal blood -- I know a flower so sweet and fine -- How sweet to travel the road ahead -- Welcome, New Year of our Lord (New Year) -- The forest leaves are fading fast -- White clouds are greying, and leaves are falling -- Early morn is golden born -- Church bells ringing! of the noble bronzes -- Once again the cockerel crew -- We can feel we must learn daily -- Here is a revelation -- Is spelling right or wrong a light -- Where spirit has a mouth and voice -- 'Of the people' is our watchword -- As sunshine is to the dark brown earth -- No one sheds a golden teardrop -- What a great wonder is human life -- A plain and cheerful, active life on earth -- Mother's name is a heavenly sound -- One summer day as softly I went walking -- Alone the words of myth and song -- A welcome to our greenleaf grove -- Far higher are the mountains elsewhere on the earth -- Fatherland home -- You that kept a vigil through our childhood -- Leaves in the book are still turning -- What is it, my Marie -- In ancient days there was once a time -- See the sunrise -- The ships engaged on the sea at dusk -- Gather round, you maidens spry -- Once on a summer morning -- God planted a garden from east to west -- Abraham dwelt in Mamre grove -- King Pharoh the Great was an ungodly lump -- What is a day? (1807) -- Our garden at Udby (1811) -- The Church as house (1835) -- The golden middle way (1835) -- The moment and the poet (1851) -- Word, time, and life (1866) -- Life and death (1869) -- High Odin, white Christ (1808) -- Gunderslev wood (1808) -- Dewfall (1808) -- Odin's song on the origin of poetry (1808) -- Echo of the Battle of Brunanburh (1816) -- Rhymed letter to our Nordic next-of kin (1832) -- In praise of Jutland (1815) -- Looking back at Copenhagen (1808) -- Axelstad, with your green ramparts (1843) -- Arise, all Christians, join the hymn (1810) -- Day's wings are clipped, bringing dark to the North (1837) -- As moonlight mirrors the sun's bright ray (1837) -- Human comes first, and Christian next (1837) -- In God's house there is warmness (1842) -- There is an agéd woman (1842) -- Planted by the Holy Spirit (1850) -- Earth and heaven, be united (1868) -- To my dear father, Johan Grundtvig (1810) -- To Catherine Marie Bang, my beloved mother (1815) -- To Johan, my eldest son (1834) -- Open letter to my children (1839) -- At the funeral of my brother Otto (1843) -- To my own meta (1845) -- Farewell to my pupils (1811) -- The freedom of the peasant farmers (1838) -- The king and the people (1839) -- In the queen's charity school (1841) -- 2 April 1846 (1846) -- Constitution Day 5 June 1854 (1854) -- To Professor Whewell at Cambridge (1831) -- Christoper Columbus (1831) -- Rasmus Christian Rask (1832) -- Niels Ebbesen (1839) -- Poul Dons (1843) -- Henrik Steffens (1845) -- Thomas Kingo (1849) -- Martin Luther (1849) -- The vision (1807) -- Lady Constance Leth (1809) -- Hill by the beach at Egeløkke (1811) -- To a lady friend (1811) -- The Danish woman (1840) -- Clara (1844) -- Dearest ladies (1848) -- Clara Raphael (1851) -- To my Lise (1814) -- To Marie, my fiancée (1851) -- My friend-wife (1854) -- 'She is not dead, she sleeps awhile' (1854) -- To my Asta (1858) -- To my wife, Asta (1861) -- Old enough have I become now (1872).

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