"The following notes--the biographical facts in which are mainly drawn from the ... authors [H. Lassen and H. Koht]--are restricted by the selections which they are intended to link together and do not attempt to give more than the veriest glimpse of our poet."--Note on p. 9.

Includes "I in bad spirits, did you say?" "To Peter Krefting, my friend who has died, " "To an illustrious poet, " "To a young poet, " "In the open air" (I det grønne), "Lowly are all thy ways and plain!" "Christmas eve, " "The personal beauty of death, " "To spring, " "To my wallflower, " "The beautiful family, " and Goldschmidt's letter to Wergeland, Copenhagen, 7th July, 1845.