Treasury of Finnish love

This bilingual collection of Finland's best loved poetry includes love poems from folk poetry, poems by the old masters, and by modern poets, for example Larin Paraske, J.L. Runeberg, Aleksis Kivi and Eino Leino.Love has inspired poets everywhere, always. Love means many things to many people.This c [...]
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This bilingual collection of Finland's best loved poetry includes love poems from folk poetry, poems by the old masters, and by modern poets, for example Larin Paraske, J.L. Runeberg, Aleksis Kivi and Eino Leino.Love has inspired poets everywhere, always. Love means many things to many people.This collection of Finland's best loved poems starts with Finnish oral poetry, moves into modern times, and also includes Finland's great classic literary geniuses J.L. Runeberg, Aleksis Kivi, and Eino Leino. Reflecting Finland's bilingualism, all poems and proverbs are presented in their original language, Finnish, sometimes Swedish, and in English translation.