Selected Poems (Fyfield Books) by Hugo, Victor -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction from Odes and Ballads

To My Odes

from Orientalia

The Captive Moonlight The Djinns Reverie Rapture

from Autumn Leaves

The Slope of Reverie Setting Suns (II) Setting Suns (VI)

from The Songs of Daybreak

To the Column

from Inner Voices

To Albrecht Dürer ‘The war that scoundrel wages …’ The Cow

from Sunbeams and Shadows

‘Just as in a forest’s drowsy pools …’ Written on the pane of a Flemish window Olympio’s Sadness Oceano Nox June Nights

from Punishments

Memory of the Night of the Fourth What the poet said to himself in 1848 The Expiation To the People Stella ‘Blow forever, trumpets of thought …’ ‘It was raining that night …’

from Contemplations

Former Times

‘The poet goes away into the fields … ’ My Two Daughters ‘The clarity that fills …’ To André Chénier Life in the Fields Reply to an Act of Accusation Vere Novo The Party at Thérèse’s ‘Happy the man … ’ A Stop in the Middle of a Walk The Spinning Wheel of Omphale Letter Words Spoken in the Shadows Written on the Bottom of a Crucifix ‘Seeing her grandmother occupied spinning wool … ’ Magnitudo Parvi

Today

‘I felt I had gone mad … ’ ‘She had formed this habit … ’ ‘She was pale … ’ ‘Oh spring! oh dawn! oh memories! Veni, Vidi, Vixi ‘Tomorrow, at dawn … ’ At Villequier Mors The Beggar Words on the Dunes Mugitusque Boum ‘I paid the fisherman … ’ Shepherds and Flocks ‘I gathered this flower for you on the hill … ‘Strophe of the poet … ’ ‘A shade was waiting … ’ ‘One day the solemn spirit … Clearing Nomen, Numen, Lumen

To the One Who Stayed Behind in France

from Songs of the Streets and the Woods

Sowing Season. Evening. ‘The troop of children read and spell …’ The Lion’s Midday Sleep

from The Horrific Year

I’m setting out to narrate that horrific year …’ On Top of Paris’s Ramparts 1 January Letter to a Woman

from The Art of Being a Grandfather

Open Windows Jeannine Asleep (‘She’s asleep …’)

from The Legend of the Centuries

Conscience Boaz Asleep Christ’s First Encounter with the Tomb The Hydra Mohammed The Parricide The Work of the Prisoners The Infanta’s Rose After the Battle The Sister of Mercy After the Battle of the Caudine Forks

from The End of Satan

Et Nox Facta Est

from All the Lyre

‘The hexameter … ’ To Théophile Gautier

Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines