Victor Hugo

1802-1885 / Male / French
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A SunsetI love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love the evens, / Whether old manor-fronts their ray with golden fulgence leavens, / In numerous leafage bosomed close;
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FantômesI. / Hélas ! que j'en ai vu mourir de jeunes filles ! / C'est le destin. Il faut une proie au trépas.
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The Genesis of the ButterflyThe dawn is smiling on the dew that covers / The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers / That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings
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The Grave and The RoseThe Grave said to the Rose, / "What of the dews of dawn, / Love's flower, what end is theirs?"
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À un martyrOn lit dans les Annales de la propagation de la Foi : / « Une lettre de Hong-Kong (Chine), en date du 24 juillet / 1832, nous annonce que M. Bonnard, missionnaire du
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LetterYou can see it already: chalks and ochers; / Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; / Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery;
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Boaz AsleepBoaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight / made his pallet on the threshing floor / where all day he had worked, and now he slept
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The Poor ChildrenTake heed of this small child of earth; / He is great; he hath in him God most high. / Children before their fleshly birth
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The Ocean's SongWe walked amongst the ruins famed in story / Of Rozel-Tower, / And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory
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More Strong Than TimeSince I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet, / Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid, / Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,
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