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Victor-Marie Hugo February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885 Poetry Listing Read More About Victor-Marie Hugo below poetry list Poem Title First Lines Period # Lines # Reads 1: A Fleeting Glimpse Of A Village. How graceful the picture! the life, the repose! 4 418 2: A Lament. O paths whereon wild grasses wave! 16 442 3: A Love For Winged Things. My love flowed e'er for things with wings. 8 467 4: A Queen Five Summers Old. She is so little - in her hands a rose: 108 424 5: A Simile. Thou art like the bird 4 495 6: A Storm Simile. See, where on high the moving masses, piled 6 430 7: After The Coup D'Êtat. Before foul treachery and heads hung down, 20 387 8: An Autumnal Simile. The leaves that in the lonely walks were spread, 6 453 9: An Old-Time Lay. Where your brood seven lie, 21 447 10: Angel Or Demon. Angel or demon! thou, - whether of light 36 456 11: Apostrophe To Nature. O Sun! thou countenance divine! 12 434 12: Baby's Seaside Grave. Brown ivy old, green herbage new; 17 447 13: Battle Of The Norsemen And The Gaels. Ho! hither flock, ye fowls of prey! 40 419 14: Beloved Name. The lily's perfume pure, fame's crown of light, 30 392 15: Boaz Asleep. At work within his barn since very early, 64 448 16: Charity. Lo! I am Charity," she cries, 60 399 17: Childhood. The small child sang; the mother, outstretched on the low bed, 12 482 18: Come When I Sleep. Oh! when I sleep, come near my resting-place, 15 420 19: Cornflowers. While bright but scentless azure stars 79 368 20: Cromwell And The Crown. And is it mine? And have my feet at length 23 437 21: Death, In Life. We pass - these sleep 18 447 22: Dictated Before The Rhone Glacier. When my mind, on the ocean of poesy hurled, 54 425 23: Don Rodrigo. - A Moorish Ballad. Unto the chase Rodrigo's gone, 44 372 24: Early Love Revisited. I have wished in the grief of my heart to know 48 427 25: Envy And Avarice. Envy and Avarice, one summer day, 66 405 26: Epitaph. He lived and ever played, the tender smiling thing. 12 462 27: Esmeralda In Prison. Phoebus, is there not this side the grave, 16 399 28: Eviradnus. - The Knight Errant. What was it Sigismond and Ladisläus said? 1437 385 29: Expectation. Squirrel, mount yon oak so high, 21 442 30: Fact Or Fable? One fasting day, itched by his appetite, 20 457 31: First Love. You're strange, and yet I love you thus. 22 427 32: Freedom And The World. Weak is the People - but will grow beyond all other 4 410 33: Gastibelza. Gastibelza, with gun the measure beating, 79 378 34: Genius. Woe unto him! the child of this sad earth, 30 416 35: Guitar Song. How shall we flee sorrow - flee sorrow? said he. 9 425 36: Have You Nothing To Say For Yourself? Speak, if you love me, gentle maiden! 16 427 37: Holyrood Palace. Palace and ruin, bless thee evermore! 6 447 38: How Butterflies Are Born. The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers 20 406 39: How Good Are The Poor. Tis night - within the close stout cabin door, 139 391 40: I Am Content. True; I dwell lone, 24 531 41: Imperial Revels. Cheer, courtiers! round the banquet spread 40 389 42: Indignation! Thou who loved Juvenal, and filed 12 415 43: Infantile Influence. The child comes toddling in, and young and old 54 397 44: Inscription For A Crucifix.[1] Ye weepers, the Mourner o'er mourners behold! 4 388 45: Insult Not The Fallen. I tell you, hush! no word of sneering scorn 20 421 46: Invocation. Say, Lord! for Thou alone canst tell 12 375 47: Jersey. Dear Jersey! jewel jubilant and green, 28 386 48: King Canute. King Canute died.[1] Encoffined he was laid. 112 461 49: King Louis XVII. The golden gates were opened wide that day, 91 369 50: L'Année Terrible. You've lived a year, then, yesterday, sweet child, 52 540 51: La Légende Des Siècles. Then, with his children, clothed in skins of brutes, 66 493 52: Lord Rochester's Song. Hold, little blue-eyed page! 24 374 53: Love Of The Woodland. Orpheus, through the hellward wood 32 405 54: Love's Treacherous Pool Young maiden, true love is a pool all mirroring clear, 8 359 55: Lover's Song. My soul unto thy heart is given, 12 461 56: Madelaine. List to me, O Madelaine! 48 448 57: Marriage And Feasts. The hall is gay with limpid lustre bright 105 362 58: Mazeppa. As when a mortal - Genius' prize, alack! 11 440 59: Mentana. [1] Young soldiers of the noble Latin blood, 210 380 60: Milton's Appeal To Cromwell. Stay! I no longer can contain myself, 113 446 61: Moonlight On The Bosphorus. Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o'er the wave; 20 427 62: More Strong Than Time. Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet, 20 421 63: Morning. Morning glances hither, 24 478 64: Moses On The Nile. Sisters! the wave is freshest in the ray 105 369 65: Mothers. See all the children gathered there, 24 508 66: Mourning. Charles, Charles, my son! hast thou, then, quitted me? 32 385 67: My Happiest Dream. I love to look, as evening fails, 24 432 68: My Napoleon. Above all others, everywhere I see 48 395 69: My Thoughts Of Ye. What do I dream of? Far from the low roof, 36 384 70: Napoleon "The Little." How well I knew this stealthy wolf would howl, 11 432 71: Nero's Incendiary Song. Aweary unto death, my friends, a mood by wise abhorred, 56 416 72: No Assassination. Pray Rome put up her poniard! 36 419 73: Noormahal The Fair.[1] Between two ebon rocks 24 392 74: Oh, Why Not Be Happy?[1] Oh, why not be happy this bright summer day, 16 387 75: Old Ocean. I stood by the waves, while the stars soared in sight, 12 420 76: On A Flemish Window-Pane. Within thy cities of the olden time 25 377 77: On Hearing The Princess Royal[1] Sing. In thine abode so high 44 425 78: Outside The Ball-Room. Behold the ball-room flashing on the sight, 48 391 79: Paternal Love. My child! oh, only blessing Heaven allows me! 27 376 80: Patria.[1] Who smiles there? Is it 52 404 81: Pirates' Song. We're bearing fivescore Christian dogs 40 507 82: Poland. Alone, beneath the tower whence thunder forth 14 500 83: Poor Little Children. Mother birdie stiff and cold, 15 397 84: Prayer For France. O God! if France be still thy guardian care, 18 452 85: Prelude To "The Songs Of Twilight." How shall I note thee, line of troubled years, 40 397 86: Regret. Yes, Happiness hath left me soon behind! 35 513 87: Roses And Butterflies. The grave receives us all: 16 412 88: Satire On The Earth. A clod with rugged, meagre, rust-stained, weather-worried face, 21 415 89: Sea-Adventurers' Song. We told thirty when we started 112 384 90: Serenade. When the voice of thy lute at the eve 24 385 91: Shooting Stars. See the scintillating shower! 16 429 92: Song Of Love. If there be a velvet sward 24 393 93: Song Of The German Lanzknecht Flourish the trumpet! and rattle the drum! 31 360 94: St. John. One day, the sombre soul, the Prophet most sublime 15 454 95: Still Be A Child. In youthful spirits wild, 36 418 96: Sunset. The sun set this evening in masses of cloud, 16 419 97: Sweet Charmer.[1] Though heaven's gate of light uncloses, 16 354 98: Sweet Memory Of Love. As life wanes on, the passions slow depart, 24 421 99: Sweet Sister. Sweet sister, if you knew, like me, 20 385 100: The Beacon In The Storm. Hark to that solemn sound! 40 440 101: The Beggar's Quatrain. Blind, as was Homer; as Belisarius, blind, 4 393 102: The Blinded Bourbons. Who then, to them[1] had told the Future's story? 18 390 103: The Boy On The Barricade. Like Casabianca on the devastated deck, 45 393 104: The Boy-King's Prayer. The good steed flew o'er river and o'er plain, 40 382 105: The Carrier Pigeon. Who then - oh, who, is like our God so great, 8 429 106: The Children Of The Poor. Take heed of this small child of earth; 20 460 107: The Cow. Before the farm where, o'er the porch, festoon 44 428 108: The Cup On The Battle-Field. My sire, the hero with the smile so soft, 27 396 109: The Cymbaleer's Bride. My lord the Duke of Brittany 100 454 110: The Danube In Wrath. Ye daughters mine! will naught abate 8 401 111: The Degenerate Gallants. What business brings you here, young cavaliers? 22 388 112: The Despatch Of The Doom. While in the jolly tavern, the bandits gayly drink, 6 371 113: The Djinns. Town, tower, 120 367 114: The Dying Child To Its Mother. Ah, you said too often to your angel 32 453 115: The Eaglet Mourned. Too hard Napoleon's fate! if, lone, 44 385 116: The Eighteenth Century. O Eighteenth Century! by Heaven chastised! 10 339 117: The Emperor's Return. This goodly masque but lacked a fool! 40 372 118: The Epic Of The Lion. A Lion in his jaws caught up a child 128 409 119: The Eruption Of Vesuvius. When huge Vesuvius in its torment long 39 412 120: The Exile's Desire. Would I could see you, native land, 24 381 121: The Father's Curse. A king should listen when his subjects speak: 53 373 122: The Favorite Sultana. To please you, Jewess, jewel! 52 397 123: The Fay And The Peri. Beautiful spirit, come with me 108 406 124: The Feast Of Freedom. When the Christians were doomed to the lions of old 42 401 125: The First Black Flag. Hast thou ne'er heard men say 34 419 126: The Giant In Glee. Ho, warriors! I was reared in the land of the Gauls; 46 386 127: The Girl Of Otaheite. Forget? Can I forget the scented breath 27 381 128: The Grandmother Still asleep! We have been since the noon thus alone. 55 429 129: The Greek Boy. All is a ruin where rage knew no bounds: 24 421 130: The Humble Home. The Church[1] is vast; its towering pride, its steeples loom on high; 18 409 131: The Land Of Fable. Now, vot'ries of the Muses, turn your eyes, 16 365 132: The Lesson Of The Patriot Dead. Upon the grave's cold mouth there ever have caresses clung 17 374 133: The Lost Battle. Oh, Allah! who will give me back my terrible array? 84 377 134: The Lover's Sacrifice. Together let us fly! 29 386 135: The Lover's Wish. Oh! were I the leaf that the wind of the West, 32 398 136: The Lovers' Colloquy. One little moment to indulge the sight 35 358 137: The Marble Faun. He seemed to shiver, for the wind was keen. 83 403 138: The Morning Of Life. The mist of the morning is torn by the peaks, 12 430 139: The Morrow Of Grandeur. Sire, beware, the future's range 60 409 140: The Obdurate Beauty. To Juana ever gay, 18 383 141: The Ocean's Song. We walked amongst the ruins famed in story 20 401 142: The Old And The Young Bridegroom. Listen. The man for whom your youth is destined, 52 383 143: The Old Man's Love. O mockery! that this halting love 55 366 144: The Pasha And The Dervish. Ali came riding by - the highest head 42 387 145: The Patience Of The People. How often have the people said: "What's power?" 10 384 146: The Pity Of The Angels. When an angel of kindness 9 389 147: The Poet To His Wife. To thee, all time to thee, 14 382 148: The Poet's Love For Liveliness. For me, whate'er my life and lot may show, 18 410 149: The Poet's Simple Faith. You say, "Where goest thou?" I cannot tell, 7 407 150: The Pool And The Soul. As in some stagnant pool by forest-side, 6 416 151: The Portrait Of A Child. That brow, that smile, that cheek so fair, 21 421 152: The Preceptor. A gruesome man, bald, clad in black, 18 347 153: The Quiet Rural Church. It was a humble church, with arches low, 12 335 154: The Refugee's Haven. You may doubt I find comfort in England 4 371 155: The Retreat From Moscow. It snowed. A defeat was our conquest red! 77 365 156: The Roll Of The De Silva Race. In that reverend face 40 370 157: The Rose And The Grave. The Grave said to the rose 16 410 158: The Sacking Of The City. Thy will, O King, is done! Lighting but to consume, 20 389 159: The Scourge Of Heaven. Hast seen it pass, that cloud of darkest rim? 330 466 160: The Seaman's Song. Farewell the strand, 19 416 161: The Son In Old Age. Thy noble face, Regina, calls to mind 27 340 162: The Soudan, The Sphinxes, The Cup, The Lamp. Zim Zizimi - (of the Soudan of burnt Egypt, 334 410 163: The Sower. Sitting in a porchway cool, 21 480 164: The Spanish Lady's Love. To mount the hills or scaffold, we go to-morrow: 14 371 165: The Swiss Mercenaries. When the regiment of Halberdiers 96 344 166: The Three Glorious Days. Youth of France, sons of the bold, 42 311 167: The Trumpets Of The Mind. Sound, sound for ever, Clarions of Thought! 32 356 168: The Turkish Captive. Oh! were I not a captive, 72 345 169: The Universal Prayer. Come, child, to prayer; the busy day is done, 98 375 170: The Universal Republic. O vision of the coming time! 43 344 171: The Vale To You, To Me The Heights. - A Fable. A lion camped beside a spring, where came the Bird 24 363 172: The Veil. What has happened, my brothers? Your spirit to-day 52 352 173: The Watching Angel. In the dusky nook, 64 381 174: Then, Most, I Smile. Late it is to look so proud, 12 416 175: To A Sick Child During The Siege Of Paris. If you continue thus so wan and white; 28 348 176: To Albert Dürer. Through ancient forests - where like flowing tide 51 431 177: To Canaris, The Greek Patriot. O Canaris! O Canaris! the poet's song 58 375 178: To Cruel Ocean. Where are the hapless shipmen? - disappeared, 9 375 179: To His Muse. Since everything below, 48 361 180: To His Orphan Grandchildren. I feel thy presence, Charles. Sweet martyr! down 80 375 181: To Some Birds Flown Away. Children, come back - come back, I say 246 397 182: To The Cannon "Victor Hugo." Thou deadly crater, moulded by my muse, 3 371 183: To The Napoleon Column. When with gigantic hand he placed, 54 362 184: Toys And Tragedy. In later years, they'll tell you grandpapa 10 324 185: Tribute To The Vanquished. Oh! let me weep that race whose day is past, 7 352 186: Ye Mariners Who Spread Your Sails. Ye mariners! ye mariners! each sail to the breeze unfurled, 28 400 187: Zara, The Bather In a swinging hammock lying, 114 455 About: Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. This page viewed 7399 times.

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