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After The Coup D''tat.
Victor Hugo
("Devant les trahisons.")
[Bk. VII, xvi., Jersey, Dec. 2, 1852.]
Before foul treachery and heads hung down,
I'll fold my arms, indignant but serene....
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A Love For Winged Things.
Victor Hugo
[XXXVII., April 12, 1840.]
My love flowed e'er for things with wings.
When boy I sought for forest fowl,
And caged them in rude rushes' mesh,
And fed them with my breakfast roll;...
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An Old-Time Lay.
Victor Hugo
("Jamais elle ne raille.")
[Bk. III. xiii.]
Where your brood seven lie,
Float in calm heavenly,
Life passing evenly,
Waterfowl, waterfowl! often I dream
For a rest...
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Apostrophe To Nature.
Victor Hugo
("O Soleil!")
[Bk. II. iv., Anniversary of the Coup d''tat, 1852.]
O Sun! thou countenance divine!
Wild flowers of the glen,
Caves swoll'n with shadow, where sunshine...
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Battle Of The Norsemen And The Gaels.
Victor Hugo
("Accourez tous, oiseaux de proie!")
[VII., September, 1825.]
Ho! hither flock, ye fowls of prey!
Ye wolves of war, make no delay!
For foemen 'neath our blades shall fall...
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Cromwell And The Crown.
Victor Hugo
("Ah! je le tiens enfin.")
[CROMWELL, Act II., October, 1827.]
THURLOW communicates the intention of Parliament to
offer CROMWELL the crown.
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Dictated Before The Rhone Glacier.
Victor Hugo
("Souvent quand mon esprit riche.")
[VII., May 18, 1828.]
When my mind, on the ocean of poesy hurled,
Floats on in repose round this wonderful world,
Oft the sacred fire from heaven -...
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Eviradnus. - The Knight Errant.
Victor Hugo
("Qu'est-ce que Sigismond et Ladislas ont dit.")
[Bk. XV. iii. 1.]
I.
THE ADVENTURER SETS OUT.
What was it Sigismond and Ladisl'us said?
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Freedom And The World.
Victor Hugo
[Inscription under a Statue of the Virgin and Child, at Guernsey. - The poet sees in the emblem a modern Atlas, i.e., Freedom supporting the World.]
("Le peuple est petit.")
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Have You Nothing To Say For Yourself?
Victor Hugo
("Si vous n'avez rien ' me dire.")
[Bk. II. iv., May, 18 - .]
Speak, if you love me, gentle maiden!
Or haunt no more my lone retreat.
If not for me thy heart be laden,...
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How Good Are The Poor.
Victor Hugo
("Il est nuit. La cabane est pauvre.")
[Bk. LII. iii.]
'Tis night - within the close stout cabin door,
The room is wrapped in shade save where there fall...
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Insult Not The Fallen.
Victor Hugo
("Oh! n'insultez jamais une femme qui tombe.")
[XIV., Sept. 6, 1835.]
I tell you, hush! no word of sneering scorn -
True, fallen; but God knows how deep her sorrow....
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L'Ann'e Terrible.
Victor Hugo
TO LITTLE JEANNE.
("Vous e'tes donc hier un an.")
[September, 1870.]
You've lived a year, then, yesterday, sweet child,
Prattling thus happily! So fledglings wild,...
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Love Of The Woodland.
Victor Hugo
("Orph'e au bois du Caystre.")
[Bk. I. ii.]
Orpheus, through the hellward wood
Hurried, ere the eve-star glowed,
For the fauns' lugubrious hoots
Followed, hollow, from crook'd roots;...
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Love's Treacherous Pool
Victor Hugo
("Jeune fille, l'amour c'est un miroir.")
[XXVI., February, 1835.]
Young maiden, true love is a pool all mirroring clear,
Where coquettish girls come to linger in long delight,...
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Milton's Appeal To Cromwell.
Victor Hugo
("Non! je n'y puis tenir.")
[CROMWELL, Act III. sc. iv.]
Stay! I no longer can contain myself,
But cry you: Look on John, who bares his mind
To Oliver - to Cromwell, Milton speaks!...
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Moonlight On The Bosphorus.
Victor Hugo
("La lune 'tait sereine.")
[X., September, 1828.]
Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o'er the wave;
At the cool casement, to the evening breeze flung wide,...
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More Strong Than Time.
Victor Hugo
("Puisque j'ai mis ma l'vre ' ta coupe.")
[XXV., Jan. 1, 1835.]
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,...
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Moses On The Nile.
Victor Hugo
("Mes soeurs, l'onde est plus fraiche.")
[TO THE FLORAL GAMES, Toulouse, Feb. 10, 1820.]
"Sisters! the wave is freshest in the ray
Of the young morning; the reapers are asleep;...
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My Thoughts Of Ye.
Victor Hugo
("' quoi je songe?")
[XXIIL, July, 1836.]
What do I dream of? Far from the low roof,
Where now ye are, children, I dream of you;
Of your young heads that are the hope and crown...
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