01946cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000350011324500110014826400510015930000470021033600260025733700260028333800360030950000310034550800370037652010670041353400670148065300350154785600430158299900190162577933UtSlPG20260610134815.0mcr n260607r20261916utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7asv2iso639-1 4aPT1 aSödergran, Edith,d1892-192310aDikter 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-14  aTuula Temonen and Tapio Riikonen  aDikter by Edith Södergran is a collection of lyric poetry written in the early 20th century. The book centers on a modern, visionary voice meditating on identity, womanhood, nature, love, spirituality, and death.

Across vivid, concentrated poems, a first‑person speaker moves through seas, forests, stars, and autumnal light, feeling both exile and fierce self-assertion. She proclaims a new female self, questions God, weighs happiness against pain, and treats death as life’s intimate sister. Scenes and symbols recur: a light in a window for the dead, stars shattering into garden “shards,” a caged bird longing for mountain silence, an autumn’s last flower, and divergent paths toward purity or ruin. Love appears intoxicating yet perilous; beauty is excess and austerity at once; foreign lands beckon, and the soul waits by still waters. The collection ultimately frames life as a tight, unyielding circle, where happiness proves hollow and pain becomes the stern giver of truth and transformation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cBorgå: Holger Schildts Förlag, 1916  aSwedish poetry -- 20th century40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77933  c118653d118653