The Norsk Nightingale; Being the Lyrics of a "Lumberyack"
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The classic collection by William Kirk.Verses in Scandinavian dialect, which the author says should be familiar to the 'lumberyacks' of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota. But to other readers, such terms as "skol" (shall or will), "ban" (been), "panga" (money), "sum" (than or as), may convey little or no meaning." William Frederick Kirk, (1877 - 1927), born in Mankato, Minnesota, was an American baseball writer, columnist, humorist, poet and songwriter. His ethnic poetry played on the notion, probably engendered by their English pronunciation, that Scandinavian-Americans were good-natured but a...
Chapters (40)
- THE NORSK NIGHTINGALE
- Being the Lyrics of a "Lumberyack"
- 1905
- PREFACE
- HIS LYRICS
- "YIM"
- TILLIE OLSON
- THE "LUMBERYACK"
- LITTLE STEENA YOHNSON
- OLAF
- "YENNIE DEAR"
- "PEEK-A-BOO"
- SONNET ON STEWED PRUNES
- A GOOD FELLOW
- "IT'S UP TO YOU"
- HIS HISTORICAL TALES
- HORATIUS AT THE BRIDGE
- WILLIAM TELL
- THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH
- ROBINSON CRUSOE
- GEORGE WASHINGTON
- PAUL REVERE
- WATERLOO
- BARBARA FRIETCHIE
- SHERIDAN'S RIDE
- HIS POETICAL TRANSLATIONS
- SPEAK GENTLY
- THE BAREFOOT BOY
- FATHER WILLIAM
- ABOU SWEN ANSON
- MAUD MULLER
- LUCY GRAY
- STEALING A RIDE
- "CURFEW SHALL NOT RING TO-NIGHT"
- A PSALM OF LIFE
- ANNIE LAURIE
- THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
- EXCELSIOR
- MORTALITY
- THE DAY IS DONE
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