Herinnering aan Holland

Dutch landscape with poplar trees, described in the second stanza of Marsman's poem
Herinnering aan Holland

Denkend aan Holland
zie ik breede rivieren
traag door oneindig
laagland gaan,

—Hendrik Marsman

Herinnering aan Holland (English: Memory of Holland) is a poem written by Dutch poet Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940), first published in 1936. The poem describes the Dutch landscape and the Dutch struggle against the water. It is one of the best-known poems in the Dutch language.[1]

References

  1. Aarts, C.J.; Etten, M.C. van (1990). Domweg gelukkig, in de Dapperstraat: de bekendste gedichten uit de Nederlandse literatuur. Bert Bakker. p. 171. ISBN 9789035108400.

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