Poems
by Victor Hugo
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About This Book
Although best known as the author of Notre Dame de Paris and Les Misérables , Victor Hugo was primarily a poet—one of the most important and prolific in French history. Despite his renown, however, there are few comprehensive collections of his verse available and even fewer translated editions.Translators E. H. and A. M. Blackmore have collected Victor Hugo's essential verse into a single, bilingual volume that showcases all the facets of Hugo's oeuvre, including intimate love poems, satires against the political establishment, serene meditations, religious verse, and narrative poems illustra...
Chapters (206)
- POEMS
- 1888
- CONTENTS.
- MEMOIR OF VICTOR MARIE HUGO.
- EARLY POEMS.
- ENVY AND AVARICE.
- ODES.—1818-28.
- KING LOUIS XVII.
- THE FEAST OF FREEDOM.
- TO YE KINGS.
- GENIUS.
- THE GIRL OF OTAHEITE.
- NERO'S INCENDIARY SONG.
- REGRET.
- THE MORNING OF LIFE.
- BELOVED NAME.
- THE PORTRAIT OF A CHILD.
- BALLADES.—1823-28.
- THE GRANDMOTHER
- THE GIANT IN GLEE.
- THE CYMBALEER'S BRIDE.
- BATTLE OF THE NORSEMEN AND THE GAELS.
- MADELAINE.
- THE FAY AND THE PERI.
- THE PERI.
- LES ORIENTALES.—1829.
- THE SCOURGE OF HEAVEN.
- PIRATES' SONG.
- THE TURKISH CAPTIVE.
- MOONLIGHT ON THE BOSPHORUS.
- THE VEIL.
- THE SISTER
- THE FAVORITE SULTANA.
- THE PASHA AND THE DERVISH.
- THE LOST BATTLE.
- THE GREEK BOY.
- ZARA, THE BATHER
- EXPECTATION.
- THE LOVER'S WISH.
- THE SACKING OF THE CITY.
- NOORMAHAL THE FAIR.{1}
- THE DJINNS.
- THE OBDURATE BEAUTY.
- DON RODRIGO.
- CORNFLOWERS.
- MAZEPPA.
- THE DANUBE IN WRATH.
- OLD OCEAN.
- MY NAPOLEON.
- LES FEUILLES D'AUTOMNE.—1831.
- THE PATIENCE OF THE PEOPLE.
- DICTATED BEFORE THE RHONE GLACIER.
- THE POET'S LOVE FOR LIVELINESS.
- INFANTILE INFLUENCE.
- THE WATCHING ANGEL.
- SUNSET.
- THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
- II.
- LES CHANTS DU CRÉPUSCULE.—1849.
- PRELUDE TO "THE SONGS OF TWILIGHT."
- THE LAND OF FABLE.
- THE THREE GLORIOUS DAYS.
- TRIBUTE TO THE VANQUISHED.
- ANGEL OR DEMON.
- THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS.
- MARRIAGE AND FEASTS.
- THE MORROW OF GRANDEUR.
- THE EAGLET MOURNED.
- INVOCATION.
- OUTSIDE THE BALL-ROOM.
- PRAYER FOR FRANCE.
- TO CANARIS, THE GREEK PATRIOT.
- POLAND.
- INSULT NOT THE FALLEN.
- MORNING.
- SONG OF LOVE.
- SWEET CHARMER.{1}
- MORE STRONG THAN TIME.
- ROSES AND BUTTERFLIES.
- THE POET TO HIS WIFE.
- LES VOIX INTÉRIEURES.—1840.
- THE BLINDED BOURBONS.
- TO ALBERT DÜRER.
- TO HIS MUSE.
- THE COW.
- MOTHERS.
- TO SOME BIRDS FLOWN AWAY.
- MY THOUGHTS OF YE.
- THE BEACON IN THE STORM.
- LOVE'S TREACHEROUS POOL
- THE ROSE AND THE GRAVE.
- LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES.—1840.
- HOLYROOD PALACE.
- THE HUMBLE HOME.
- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
- STILL BE A CHILD.
- THE POOL AND THE SOUL.
- YE MARINERS WHO SPREAD YOUR SAILS.
- ON A FLEMISH WINDOW-PANE.
- THE PRECEPTOR.
- GASTIBELZA.
- GUITAR SONG.
- COME WHEN I SLEEP.
- EARLY LOVE REVISITED.
- SWEET MEMORY OF LOVE.
- THE MARBLE FAUN.
- BABY'S SEASIDE GRAVE.
- LES CHÂTIMENTS.—1853.
- INDIGNATION!
- IMPERIAL REVELS.
- POOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
- APOSTROPHE TO NATURE.
- NAPOLEON "THE LITTLE."
- FACT OR FABLE?
- NO ASSASSINATION.
- THE DESPATCH OF THE DOOM.
- THE SEAMAN'S SONG.
- THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW.
- THE OCEAN'S SONG.
- THE TRUMPETS OF THE MIND.
- AFTER THE COUP D'ÊTAT.
- PATRIA.{1}
- THE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC.
- LES CONTEMPLATIONS.—1830-56.
- THE VALE TO YOU, TO ME THE HEIGHTS.
- CHILDHOOD.
- SATIRE ON THE EARTH.
- HOW BUTTERFLIES ARE BORN.
- HAVE YOU NOTHING TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?
- INSCRIPTION FOR A CRUCIFIX.{1}
- DEATH, IN LIFE.
- THE DYING CHILD TO ITS MOTHER.
- EPITAPH.
- ST. JOHN.
- THE POET'S SIMPLE FAITH.
- LA LÉGENDE DES SIÈCLES.
- CAIN.
- BOAZ ASLEEP.
- SONG OF THE GERMAN LANZKNECHT
- KING CANUTE.
- II.
- THE BOY-KING'S PRAYER.
- EVIRADNUS.
- THE SOUDAN, THE SPHINXES, THE CUP, THE LAMP.
- SEA-ADVENTURERS' SONG.
- THE SWISS MERCENARIES.
- THE CUP ON THE BATTLE-FIELD.
- HOW GOOD ARE THE POOR.
- LA VOIX DE GUERNESEY.
- MENTANA. {1}
- LES CHANSONS DES RUES ET DES BOIS.
- LOVE OF THE WOODLAND.
- SHOOTING STARS.
- L'ANNÉE TERRIBLE.
- TO LITTLE JEANNE.
- TO A SICK CHILD DURING THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
- THE CARRIER PIGEON.
- TOYS AND TRAGEDY.
- MOURNING.
- THE LESSON OF THE PATRIOT DEAD.
- THE BOY ON THE BARRICADE.
- TO HIS ORPHAN GRANDCHILDREN.
- TO THE CANNON "VICTOR HUGO."
- L'ART D'ÊTRE GRANDPÊRE.
- THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR.
- THE EPIC OF THE LION.
- LES QUATRE VENTS DE L'ESPRIT.
- ON HEARING THE PRINCESS ROYAL{1} SING.
- MY HAPPIEST DREAM.
- AN OLD-TIME LAY.
- JERSEY.
- THEN, MOST, I SMILE.
- THE EXILE'S DESIRE.
- THE REFUGEE'S HAVEN.
- VARIOUS PIECES.
- TO THE NAPOLEON COLUMN.
- CHARITY.
- SWEET SISTER.
- THE PITY OF THE ANGELS.
- THE SOWER.
- OH, WHY NOT BE HAPPY?{1}
- FREEDOM AND THE WORLD.
- SERENADE.
- AN AUTUMNAL SIMILE.
- TO CRUEL OCEAN.
- ESMERALDA IN PRISON.
- LOVER'S SONG.
- LORD ROCHESTER'S SONG.
- THE BEGGAR'S QUATRAIN.
- THE QUIET RURAL CHURCH.
- DRAMATIC PIECES.
- THE FATHER'S CURSE.
- PATERNAL LOVE.
- THE DEGENERATE GALLANTS.
- THE OLD AND THE YOUNG BRIDEGROOM.
- THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE.
- THE LOVER'S SACRIFICE.
- THE OLD MAN'S LOVE.
- THE ROLL OF THE DE SILVA RACE.
- THE LOVERS' COLLOQUY.
- CROMWELL AND THE CROWN.
- MILTON'S APPEAL TO CROMWELL.
- FIRST LOVE.
- THE FIRST BLACK FLAG.
- THE SON IN OLD AGE.
- THE EMPEROR'S RETURN.
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