Poems








POEMS

By Victor Hugo


1888






CONTENTS

ORIGINAL TABLE OF 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 GRANDPÈRE.

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.








CONTENTS.

Memoir of Victor Marie Hugo

EARLY POEMS.

     Moses on the Nile—Dublin University Magazine     Envy and Avarice—American Keepsake

ODES.—1818-28.

     King Louis XVII—Dublin University Magazine     The Feast of Freedom—"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)     Genius—Mrs. Torre Hulme     The Girl of Otaheite—Clement Scott     Nero's Incendiary Song—H.J. Williams     Regret—Fraser's Magazine     The Morning of Life
     Beloved Name—Caroline Bowles (Mrs. Southey)     The Portrait of a Child—Dublin University Magazine

BALLADES.—1823-28.

     The Grandmother—"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)     The Giant in Glee—Foreign Quart. Rev. (adapted)     The Cymbaleer's Bride—"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)     Battle of the Norsemen and the Gaels
     Madelaine
     The Fay and the Peri—Asiatic Journal

LES ORIENTALES.—1829

     The Scourge of Heaven—I.N. Fazakerley     Pirates' Song
     The Turkish Captive—W.D., Tait's Edisiburgh Mag.     Moonlight on the Bosphorus—John L. O'Sullivan     The Veil—"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)     The Favorite Sultana
     The Pasha and the Dervish
     The Lost Battle—W.D., Bentley's Miscel., 1839
     The Greek Boy
     Zara, the Bather—John L. O'Sullivan     Expectation—John L. O'Sullivan      The Lover's Wish—V., Eton Observer     The Sacking of the City—John L. O'Sullivan     Noormahal the Fair
     The Djinns—John L. O'Sullivan     The Obdurate Beauty—John L. O'Sullivan     Don Rodrigo
     Cornflowers—H.L. Williams     Mazeppa—H.L. Williams     The Danube in Wrath—Fraser's Magazine     Old Ocean—R.C. Ellwood     My Napoleon—H.L. Williams

LES FEUILLES D'AUTOMNE.—1831.

     The Patience of the People—G.W.M. Reynolds     Dictated before the Rhone Glacier—Author of "Critical Essays"     The Poet's Love for Liveliness—Fraser's Magazine     Infantile Influence—Henry Highton, M.A.     The Watching Angel—Foreign Quarterly Review     Sunset—Toru Dutt     The Universal Prayer—Henry Highton, M.A.     The Universal Prayer—C., Tait's Magazine

LES CHANTS DU CRÉPUSCULE.—1849.

     Prelude to "The Songs of Twilight"—G.W.M. Reynolds     The Land of Fable—G.W.M. Rrynolds     The Three Glorious Days—Elizabeth Collins     Tribute to the Vanquished—Fraser's Magazine     Angel or Demon—Fraser's Magazine     The Eruption of Vesuvius—Fraser's Magazine     Marriage and Feasts—G.W.M. Reynolds     The Morrow of Grandeur—Fraser's Magazine     The Eaglet Mourned—Fraser's Magazine     Invocation—G.W.M. Reynolds     Outside the Ball-room—G.W.M. Reynolds     Prayer for France—J.S. Macrae     To Canaris, the Greek Patriot—G.W.M. Reynolds     Poland—G.W.M. Reynolds     Insult not the Fallen—W.C.K. Wilde     Morning—W.M. Hardinge     Song of Love—Toru Dutt     Sweet Charmer—H.B. Farnie     More Strong than Time—A. Lang     Roses and Butterflies—W.C. Westbrook     A Simile—Fanny Kemble-Butler     The Poet to his Wife

LES VOIX INTÉRIEURES.—1840.

     The Blinded Bourbons—Fraser's Magazine     To Albert Dürer—Mrs. Newton Crosland     To his Muse—Fraser's Magazine     The Cow—Toru Dutt     Mothers—Dublin University Magazine     To some Birds Flown away—Mrs. Newton Crosland     My Thoughts of Ye—Dublin University Magazine     The Beacon in the Storm
     Love's Treacherous Pool
     The Rose and the Grave—A. Lang

LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES.—1840.

     Holyrood Palace—Fraser's Magazine     The Humble Home—Author of "Critical Essays"     The Eighteenth Century—Author of "Critical Essays"     Still be a Child—Dublin University Magazine     The Pool and the Soul—R.F. Hodgson     Ye Mariners who Spread your Sails—Author of "Critical Essays"     On a Flemish Window-Pane—Fraser's Magazine     The Preceptor—E.E. Frewer     Gastibelza—H.L. Williams     Guitar Song—Evelyn Jerrold     Come when I Sleep—Wm. W. Tomlinson     Early Love Revisited—Author of "Critical Essays"     Sweet Memory of Love—Author of "Critical Essays"     The Marble Faun—William Young     A Love for Winged Things
     Baby's Seaside Grave

LES CHÂTIMENTS.—1853.

     Indignation!
     Imperial Revels—H.L.W.     Poor Little Children
     Apostrophe to Nature
     Napoleon "The Little"
     Fact or Fable—H.L.W.     A Lament—Edwin Arnold, C.S.I.     No Assassination
     The Despatch of the Doom
     The Seaman's Song
     The Retreat from Moscow—Toru Dutt     The Ocean's Song—Toru Dutt     The Trumpets of the Mind—Toru Dutt     After the Coup d'État—Toru Dutt     Patria
     The Universal Republic

LES CONTEMPLATIONS.—1830-56.

     The Vale to You, to Me the Heights—H.L.W     Childhood—Nelson R. Tyerman     Satire on the Earth
     How Butterflies are Born—A. Lang     Have You Nothing to Say for Yourself?—C.H. Kenny     Inscription for a Crucifix
     Death, in Life
     The Dying Child to its Mother—Bp. Alexander     Epitaph—Nelson R. Tyerman     St. John—Nelson R. Tyerman     The Poet's Simple Faith—Prof. E. Dowden     I am Content

LA LÉGENDE DES SIÈCLES.

     Cain—Dublin University Magazine     Boaz Asleep—Bp. Alexander     Song of the German Lanzknecht—H.L.W.     King Canute—R. Garnett     King Canute—Dublin University Magazine     The Boy-King's Prayer—Dublin University Magazine     Eviradnus—Mrs. Newton Crosland     The Soudan, the Sphinxes, the Cup, the Lamp—Bp. Alexander     A Queen Five Summers Old—Bp. Alexander     Sea Adventurers' Song
     The Swiss Mercenaries—Bp. Alexander     The Cup on the Battle-Field—Toru Dutt     How Good are the Poor—Bp. Alexander

LA VOIX DE GUERNESEY.