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.