Sindet sødmefylt og ungt
og dog bristefærdig tungt,
tungt af drømme, der i trængsel
svulmer sygnende af længsel,
lig en livsens tørstig knop,
naar den slaar sit øie op
og i vaarens unge glæde
foldes ud for sol og væde.

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Confirmed with Nils Vogt, Fra vaar til Høst, anden ogede og rettede Udgave, Kristiania, Olaf Norlis Forlag, 1904, p. 15.

Text Authorship:

• by Nils Collett Vogt (1864 - 1937), no title, appears in Fra Vaar til Høst, first published 1894 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Sigurd Lie (1871 - 1904), "Sindet sødmefylt og ungt" [medium voice and piano], from Sange for en Mellemstemme med Piano, no. 1. [
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• by Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941), "Sindet sødmefylt og ungt", op. 36 no. 6, published 1897 [voice and piano], from Fra Vaar til Høst, no. 6. [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Eugen von Enzberg) , title 1: "Herze wonnevoll und jung", published 1897
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title 1: "Le jeune cœur empli de douceur", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-06-22
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