Selected Poems

PENGUIN BOOKS

Published by the Penguin Group
Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street,
New York, New York 10014, U.S.A.
Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand,
London WC2R 0RL, England
Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell,
Victoria 3124, Australia
Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2
Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park,
New Delhi—110 017, India
Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany,
Auckland, New Zealand
Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue,
Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa
Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
First published in Penguin Books 2002

All rights reserved
The translator would like to thank the editors of the following publications where
parts of this book have appeared: American Poetry Review, the Introduction,
“Oceano Nox,” “My Two Girls,” “All Souls’ Day, 1846,” “When We Were
Living,” “Little Song,” “The Graveyard at Villequier,” “Word from the Dunes,”
“During Sickness,” “The Trumpet of Judgment,” from “The Art of Being a
Grandfather, Lesson One: The Moon,” and “Sonnet”; American Scholar, “Boaz
Asleep”; Hudson Review, “As I Have Set My Lip,” “Nights in June,” “Napoleon’s
Army After the Fall of Moscow,” “Barefoot,” “Letter from Normandy,” and
“How It Happened”; Paris Review, “Mugitusque Boum,” “Et Nox Facta Est,”
and “The Plume of Satan.”
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885.
[Poems. English & French. Selections]
Selected poems / Victor Hugo; translated and with an introduction
by Brooks Haxton.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-142-43703-2