"Jeg kunde slet ikke sove For Nattergalens Røst, Som fra de dunkle Skove Sig trængte til mit Bryst. Jeg aabnede Vinduet stille Og stirred i Mulmet hen, Og lod hver Elskovstrille Mig synge om igjen."
— Christian Winther

January 1, 1970

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Længsel, ll. 1-4. Sang og sagn (Kjøbenhavn: P. G. Philipsen, 1840) pp. 14-15. Titled Sehnsucht in German. English version (apparently after the German translation) attributed to Theo Marzials in McCaskey's Franklin Square Song Collection, no. 5 (New York: Harper & Bros, 1888) p. 10, and in E. C. Stedman (ed.) A Victorian Anthology (Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1895) p. 516. However, the same lines are attributed to the Minnesotan teacher Bessie Porter (born: Ireland, 9 May 1865) in Thos. W. Herring