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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: hugo, victor Matches Found: 332 Hugo, Victor Marie Poet's Biography 332 poems available by this author 15TH FEBRUARY 1843 First Line: Love him who loves thee, and with him be blest A COUP D'ETAT; AN INCIDENT IN THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4, 1851 Poem Text First Line: The child received two bullets in the brain Last Line: Must sew the shrouds of children eight years old. Subject(s): Death - Children; France; Grandparents; Guns; Murder; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); War; Death - Babies; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE Poem Text First Line: If some fragrant lawn be found Last Line: For your heart to rest. A NIGHT IN JUNE Poem Text First Line: In summer - daylight fled - where flowers abound Last Line: Seems all night long on heaven's low ridge to halt. A SUNSET Poem Text First Line: I love the evenings, passionless and fair Last Line: Fantasy them with starry brede. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A UN PASSANT Poem Text First Line: Traveller, who at night, along the echoing street Last Line: Where leadest thou so late, thy patient weary steed? Subject(s): Travel; Journeys; Trips A UNE FEMME Poem Text First Line: Child, were I king, I'd yield my royal rule Last Line: For a kiss from thee! Subject(s): Love A. L. Poem Text First Line: Child! Like a broken reed all hope we find Last Line: Washes some spot defiled. AFTER SIX THOUSAND YEARS First Line: Going on six thousand years Subject(s): War AFTER THE BATTLE Poem Text First Line: My father, that hero with the sad sweet smile Last Line: "give the poor man a drink,"" my father said." Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines AGE IS GREAT AND STRONG. HER CHAINS ARE RIVEN Subject(s): Religion ALL SOULS' DAY, 1846 First Line: At four years old, first thing when she woke up Last Line: Having, on our way out, seen her with a gloomy look Variant Title(s): All Soul's Day, 184 ALL WINGED CREATURES I HAVE LOVED First Line: All the winged creatures I have ever loved AN EVENING SCENE Poem Text First Line: Here all is joy and all is light Last Line: Knows the whole secret and is blest. Subject(s): Creation; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight AN OLD SONG OF A YOUTHFUL TIME Poem Text First Line: I went for a woodland walk Last Line: I have thought of it oft since then! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations ART OF BEING A GRANDFATHER, SELS First Line: Jeanne sat brooding in the grass %when I came by. 'jeanne, tell me Last Line: And I saw just clearing the horizon %the immensity of the moon ART OF BEING A GRANDFATHER,SELS; LESSON ONE: THE MOON First Line: Jeanne sat brooding in the grass Last Line: And I saw just clearing the horizon %the immensity of the moon AS I HAVE SET MY LIP First Line: As I have set my lip to your still brimming cup Last Line: My heart has more love than you have dark! AS IN A POND AS JEANNE SAT ON THE GRASS AT DAWN TOMORROW, TIME OF WHITENING FIELDS Last Line: And when I'm there, I'll lay upon your grave %green holly, flowering heather: ny boquet Subject(s): Love AT GAUTIER'S GRAVE First Line: Friend, poet, spirit -- you have fled our night Last Line: Weeps over cribs, and smiles at this new grave Subject(s): Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872) AT THE BARRICADE First Line: Upon a barricade thrown 'cross the street AT THE FEUILLANTINES First Line: My brother twain and I - mere children at the time AT VILLEQUIER First Line: Now paris, with its streets and palaces BAREFOOT First Line: Her shoes pulled off, her hair let down Last Line: In her eyes, her cracked lips open, laughing BEFORE THE CONCLUSION OF THE TREATY First Line: If this foul war ended see BELIEVE - BUT NOT IN OURSELVES First Line: Becaue we've ta'en a bit of cloth, or loaf BIRD OF LIFE First Line: Let us be like a bird, a moment lighted BLIND BEGGAR AND THE POET First Line: Like belisarius, and like homer blind BOAZ ASLEEP First Line: Boaz had lain down to sleep, worn out Last Line: Had negligently tossed before he left %his sickle into heaven's starry loft BOAZ ASLEEP First Line: Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight Last Line: His golden scythe there in that field of stars BOOZ ENDORMI First Line: Booz s'etait couche de fatigue accable BOOZ ENDORMI BRIGHT STARS AND DARK First Line: A meagre soil, arid and harsh and rude Last Line: Where bleeding nations meet in frenzied jar, %- strange that all this should go to make a star! BY SILENCE SHE THE BATTLE WON CAIN First Line: Then with his children, clothed in skins of brutes CAPITULATION First Line: Thus greatest nations to their fall descend CASSANDRE First Line: Le choeur. Elle est fille de roi.- mais sa CEMETERY OF EYLAU First Line: This to my elder brothers, schoolboys gay CHANSON D'AUTREFOIS First Line: Jamais elle ne raille, %etant un calme esprit CHILD AT PLAY First Line: A child was singing at his play CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: The infant sang; the mother, life near over Last Line: The slender branches for its load too frail. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The CHILDHOOD First Line: The child was singing, and the mother lay CHOICE BETWEEN TWO WAYFARERS First Line: Death I beheld and shame I saw CHOSES DU SOIR Poem Text First Line: Chilly the eve, and the silent mist Last Line: Where is the wayward singer gone? CHOSES DU SOIR First Line: Le brouillard est froid, la bruyere est grise CICATRIX First Line: An ugly cicatrix was crusted o'er CIVIL WAR First Line: Furious and dreadful was the crowd COMPLETION Poem Text First Line: The brooklet fell from the crannied rock Last Line: A drop of water good to drink. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Rain; Sea; Spring; Water; Wine; Ocean CONSCIENCE Poem Text First Line: Although upon the shore I seem Last Line: Pass downward to the silent grave. Subject(s): Conscience CORN-FLOWERS First Line: In summer months, while yet the corn CRADLE SONG Poem Text First Line: In the darken'd alcove Last Line: Makes her darling smile. DAWN AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS First Line: Listen! Mixed with twittering from an invisible nest Last Line: Like a bird alights, silence clears the air for dawn DAY ON MOUNT ATLAS First Line: Once to mount atlas, said the jealous hills DEATH First Line: I saw the reaper toiling far and wide DOMAIN DES L'AUBE DREAMS First Line: Far from the city's pile DRY BREAD Poem Text First Line: Jeanne to dry bread and the dark room consigned Last Line: And I will go and bring you pots of jam!' DURING AN ILLNESS First Line: They tell me I am very ill DURING SICKNESS First Line: They do not hide their hopelessness. %they say: his eyes look dull Last Line: Take me into the dark to see the show ECRIT EN EXIL First Line: L'heureux n'est pas le vrai, le droit ENVY AND AVARICE, ONE SUMMER DAY EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: The child was living to laugh and to play Last Line: Is desolate for this one child less! EPITAPH First Line: Or old or young, or fool or wise EPITAPH First Line: He lived, he played, a little laughing sprite EPOPEE OF THE LION First Line: A lion in his jaws had ta'en a child ET NOX FACTA EST First Line: There the sun was, dying in the abyss Last Line: Do not throw down what is not yet fallen EVENING Poem Text First Line: Cold is the fog, and the grey mists rise Last Line: Old ivon used in his pipes to blow. EVENING JOYS First Line: On mountains, when the sun his light sinks low EXILE First Line: If I might, o! My native land EXPIATION First Line: It was snowing. For the first time, conquered Last Line: And darkness all around, a voice said, 'no EXPIATION First Line: Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain! Last Line: He heard a voice replying to him: no! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); Waterloo EXTASY Poem Text First Line: I was alone beside the sea upon a starry night Last Line: The lord, our great creator, his glory we proclaim!' EXTRAVAGANZA First Line: I'd give, girl (were I but king) Subject(s): Love FAITH Poem Text First Line: Sound, sound forever, ye clarions of thought Last Line: Monologue later used by joyce in ulysses. Variant Title(s): The Trumpets Of The Mind Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Prayer; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FAITH Poem Text First Line: Be like the little bird Last Line: All conscious of his wings. Variant Title(s): The Trumpets Of The Mind Subject(s): Bible; Faith; Prayer; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology FALLING STARS, SELS. First Line: Lovers twain beneath the night FALLS First Line: Niagara - rhine - dash sown with foaming wave FAME AND LOVE Poem Text First Line: When, dearest, thou dost speak of fame Last Line: My heart is at thy feet. Subject(s): Fame; Happiness; Love - Nature Of; Reputation; Joy; Delight FATHER'S CURSE First Line: Tis true your mandate led me to the block FEAST OF FREEDOM First Line: When the christians were doomed to the lions of old FLOWER First Line: I picked this flower from the cliff for you Last Line: Spill into my soul with the chill of evening! FLOWER TO BUTTERFLY First Line: Sweet, bide with me and let my love FOR JEANNE ALONE First Line: I care nothing, well I ween FOUNTAIN AND IN THE OCEAN First Line: Over the cliff the fountain sped FRANCE, A L'HEURE OU TU TE PROSTERNES FRATERNITY Poem Text First Line: One day, I saw an unknown woman stand Last Line: You think me pity ... Justice is my name. Subject(s): Angels; Justice; Mankind; Women & Religion; Worship; Human Race FROM EVIRADNUS First Line: In those vast halls the hero stands alone GHOST SONG Poem Text First Line: Who are you, tell me, beauteous shade Last Line: Gather the holly from the tree. GOD, WHOSE GIFTS IN GRACIOUS FLOOD GOOD NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Good night! Good night! Last Line: Good night! Good night! Subject(s): Night; Bedtime GOOD NIGHT First Line: Sleep sweetly in this quiet room GRANDFATHER'S SONG First Line: Dance, little girls GRANDMOTHER First Line: Mother of our own dear mother, good old grandam, wake and smile! GRASS-GROWN PATH First Line: O path, where now the grass grows high GRAVEYARD AT VILLEQUIER First Line: Now, with the streets of paris and the stones Last Line: Consider what a sad thing, then, %to see her go GROS TEMPS LA NUIT First Line: Le vent hurle, la rafale %sort, ruisselante GUERNESEY First Line: Ces rocs de l'ocean ont tout, terreur et grace GUITAR SONG Poem Text First Line: Gastibelza, gun on shoulder Last Line: That hath maddened me! Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Songs GUITARE First Line: Gastibelza, l'homme a la carabine GUITARE First Line: Twas gastibelza, ranger bold, and thus it was he sung HEARD ON THE MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Have you sometimes, calm, silent, let your tread Last Line: The vintage-chant of nature with the dirging cry of humankind? HER NAME First Line: A lily's fragrance rare, and aureole's pale splendor HER NAME First Line: A lily's fragrance rare, an aureole's pale splendor Last Line: A flight of angels hovered near Subject(s): Love HERNANI, SELS. HIRELING SWISS REGIMENT First Line: When the regiment of the halberdiers is proudly marching by HOPE IN GOD Poem Text First Line: Hope, child, to-morrow, and to-morrow still Last Line: Then all the contrite, god may end with me. HOUSE AND HOME Subject(s): Home; Religion HOW GOOD ARE THE POOR First Line: Tis night - within the close-shut cabin door Variant Title(s): The Poor Fisher Fol Subject(s): Poverty HOW IT HAPPENED First Line: The boy had taken two shots in the head Last Line: Stitch winding sheets around their little boys HOW TERRIBLE THE FACE OF BRUTES I WILL SET OUT TO-MORROW Poem Text First Line: I will set out to-morrow when the dawn-light whitens all the land Last Line: Then will I lay this holly-spray and heather on thy bier. Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Waiting; Dead, The IF MY VERSES HAD THE WINGS Poem Text First Line: Songs as sweet as summer brings Last Line: Wings like love to speed the way. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets IMPERIAL MANTLE First Line: You whose labour is sweet and gay IN THE CEMETERY OF First Line: The crowd still living, laughs on folly set IN THE CIRCUS First Line: The southern lion saw the polar bear IN THE MEADOWS First Line: O'er the wood and the stream I muse with tenderness IN THE VALLEY OF CHERIZY First Line: A wanderer sits 'neath your still shade awhile IN THE WOODS First Line: In the free wood I like to stray IN VAIN I SEARCH LIKE ONE DISTRAUGHT INDIGNATION First Line: Those who loved juvenal, and filed JEAN CHOUAN First Line: Thee whites fled, and the blues first down the glade JEANNE ASLEEP First Line: She sleeps! Her eyes will soon expand again JEANNE ASLEEP First Line: Birds sing, and I am plunged in reveries JEANNE WAS ON BREAD AND WATER Last Line: Well, anyway, I shall come and bring you some jam' Subject(s): Love JERSEY First Line: Jersey dort dans les flots, ces eternels grondeurs JOURNEY First Line: The horse his harness shakes, and makes it ring JUNE NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: When the long day dies in summer and flowers are closing Last Line: Lurks all night long low down on the skyline gray. Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime JUNE NIGHTS Poem Text First Line: In summer, when the day is gone Last Line: Dawn waits its hour. Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime JUNE NIGHTS First Line: Summer's day fled, the flowered plain Last Line: Wanders low in the sky through the night JUNE NIGHTS First Line: The summer day is done, and meadows fling Last Line: Waiting for morning, round the heavens' dome L'ANGE QUI VEILLE LA BELLE IMPERIEUSE First Line: L'amour, panique %de la raison LA CHANSON DE FANTINE First Line: Nous acheterons de bien belles choses LA CHANSON DE JOSS First Line: Si tu veux, faisons un reve LA COCCINELLE First Line: Elle me dit: quelque chose LA TERRE: HYMNE First Line: Elle est la terre, elle est la plaine LAETITIA RERUM First Line: All nature thrills with joyfulness LE CHASSEUR NOIR First Line: Qu'es-tu, passant? Le bois est sombre LE ROUET D'OMPHALE First Line: Il est dans l'atrium, le beau rouet d'ivoire LES BURGRAVES, SELS. LES CHANTS DU CREPUSCULE, SELS. LES MISERABLES, SELS. First Line: Friends, the hour in which we live, and in Subject(s): Justice LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES, SELS. LETTER FROM NORMANDY First Line: From here you see ten thousand streaks of chalk Last Line: Or by the importunings of prophetic seabirds LION AND PRINCE First Line: A lion in his jaws caught up a child LION'S MID-DAY REST First Line: The lion rests his cave beneath LIONS First Line: Famished, the lions were in their LITTLE MUSIC First Line: Shall we frame a vision gay LITTLE PAUL First Line: The child was born, the mother died LITTLE SONG First Line: Tomorrow, with dawn's whitewash on the fields Last Line: Twigs of green holly and heather picked in full flower LOVE First Line: This hour stands first. Before me is a world Last Line: Approaches most divinity, love - love, %in majesty and power LOVE'S NEST First Line: The swallow in the spring seeks out Last Line: The bird conceals its nest, and we, we hide our loves Subject(s): Love MAZEPPA First Line: Ainsi, quand mazeppa, qui rugit et qui pleure Subject(s): Mazeppa, Ivan Stepanovich (1644-1709); Poltava, Battle Of (1709); Ukraine MEETING First Line: When to the youngest he his alms had cast MEMORIES First Line: O memories! O morn! O spring MID DOUBTS AND RECKONINGS MOON First Line: What greedy little things MORE STRONG THAN TIME Poem Text First Line: Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet Last Line: My soul more love than you can make my soul forget. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The MOSES ON THE NILE First Line: My sisters, come away MUGITUSQUE BOUM First Line: Lowing of cattle: your voice, to the mind of virgil Last Line: O living world! Abyss! Immensity of darkness! MY TWO DAUGHTERS First Line: In the cool of twilight, now the sun has gone Subject(s): Love MY TWO GIRLS First Line: In the clear dark and the cool of evening Last Line: Like ecstasies of white moth frozen in flight NAPOLEON Poem Text First Line: Angel or demon! Thou - whether of light Last Line: More! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821) NAPOLEON'S ARMY AFTER THE FALL OF MOSCOW First Line: Snow, in what was left of the city behind them Last Line: The clock of an inevitable ax NEW SONG TO AN OLD AIR First Line: Is there a tuft of grass Last Line: Then upon such a nest %thy heart reposes NIGHT RIDE THROUGH THE FOREST First Line: Deep black the night, dark was the forest made NIGHTS IN JUNE First Line: Drunken summer, after the day ends, pours Last Line: Wander all night under the deep of the sky NO First Line: Let sparta daggers use, and rome the sword O CHARLES, I FEEL THEE NEAR First Line: My charles, dear martyr, still I feel thee near O FRANCE, WHEN THOU ART PRONE AND BOUND O GOUFFRE! L'AME PLONGE ET RAPPORTE LE DOUTE OCEANO NOX Poem Text First Line: Oh! How many mariners, how many captains Last Line: Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails OCEANO NOX First Line: How many captains, how many sailors, %glad to set off toward some distant port Last Line: We hear crushing into the rocks at night! OH! JE SAIS QU'ILS FERONT DES MENSONGES SANS NOMBRES ON A BARRICADE First Line: Upon a barricade, across the streets ON THE CLIFFS First Line: O sweet spirit! You smile, I ween ON THE DUNES Poem Text First Line: Now that my tasks are done, and fast Last Line: Blue-flowered on the sandy spurs. Subject(s): Death; Dunes; Dead, The ONE-YEAR-OLD First Line: When he arrived, the family clapped their hands Last Line: And the house unvisited by children ONLY A DOG Poem Text First Line: Just now a little group stood on the shore Last Line: Whence is the star?' I said; 'the dog, where gone?' Subject(s): Animals; Dogs ONWARDS First Line: Marquis, with my loved mother ORA AMA First Line: The swift-foot partridge scuds along the banks ORPHEUS First Line: I call as my witness the god of the blackened river Last Line: Let no one ever read the magic words on the wall OUR LIFE TOGETHER First Line: When we our life together led OUT OF THE DEPTHS First Line: If human misery could be summed up, it might have Subject(s): Love PALE WAS SHE, AND YET ROSY RED PARFOIS, LORSQUE TOUT DORT, JE M'ASSIEDS PLEIN PARIS SLANDERED First Line: The gloomy night, to hate the dawn is wont PAROLES SUR LA DUNE PARTY AT THERESE'S First Line: The thing was exquisite and superbly arranged Last Line: The distances awash with the bluish moonlight PARTY OF CRIME First Line: This government with tiger claws ansd heart PAST First Line: The pile was of the thirteenth louis' days PAST PARTICIPLE OF THE VERB TROPCHOIR PATRIA First Line: Who smiles there? Is it PHANTOMS First Line: Alas! How many maidens fade and die PLUME OF SATAN First Line: Of that great angel lost into the darkness Last Line: Flared up into a starburst: freedom! POLAND Poem Text First Line: Alone, beneath the tower whence issue forth Last Line: And humbly seeks for succor ere she dies! Subject(s): Poland; Russia; Soviet Union; Russians POOL IN THE FOREST First Line: How calm, how beauteous and how cool POOR CHILDREN First Line: Take, of that little being care POOR FLOWER First Line: Said the poor flower to the butterfly POOR FOLK First Line: Tis night, the hut, though poor, keeps out the wind POOR LITTLE CHILDREN First Line: Mother birdie stiff and cold PRAYER FOR ALL, SELS. First Line: My daughter, go and pray - the night draws near PRAYER FOR THIS HOUSE First Line: A house is built of logs and stone Last Line: That stands a thousand years Subject(s): Religion PREMIER JANVIER First Line: Enfants, on vous dira plus tard que le QUI PULVIS ES First Line: These depart and those remain RECOLLECTION OF CHILDHOOD First Line: At the pantheon, going to high mass RELENTING MOB First Line: The mob was fierce and furious. They cried Variant Title(s): Civil War - An Episode Of The Commun REPLY TO AN ACT OF IMPEACHMENT First Line: What! I'm the ogre, I'm the scapegoat ROSA ANGRY First Line: Disputing! Whence the quarrel bred RUSSIA 1812 First Line: The snow fell, and its power was multiplied Last Line: Before his butchered legions in the snow Subject(s): War SACER ESTO First Line: No, freedom! People, no! He must not die SEDAN First Line: Toulon was nought! - sedan is more SET FREE First Line: At winter's close an only bird remained SEVEN OXEN OF THE NORTHERN PLOUGH First Line: When he had done, when the disheveled Last Line: In the seven beams of the black septentrion SHE HAD NO SHOES ON Last Line: Towards me, wild and fair, through spears of sedge, %hair in her eyes, and smiling not quite straigh Subject(s): Love SHEPHERDS AND FLOCKS First Line: The valley where I walk most days looks, though abandoned Last Line: On bleak winds the wool of the deadly flock of the sea SICK CHILD First Line: If still your little fear this pallor has SINCE FROM THY BRIMMING CHALICE SINCE MAY ALL AFLOWER Poem Text First Line: Since may all aflower calls us forth tothe fields Last Line: Thy brow in its beauty, thy heart in its love. Subject(s): Flowers; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Nature; Joy; Delight SINCE OUR HOURS ARE FULL OF GRIEFS First Line: Since trouble and calamities SINCE SUNK THE JUST WITHIN THE ABYSS SLAP First Line: From the small hand was dealt a hearty tap SOIR First Line: Dans les ravins la route oblique SONG Poem Text First Line: Toward your scented garden, sweet Last Line: With love's own wings. SONG Poem Text First Line: Beauty to boast, methinks 'tis rather late Last Line: Pilgrim, with smiles I death's approach can wait. SONG Poem Text First Line: My songs, poor ephemeral things Last Line: To waft them o'er land and o'er sea. SONG First Line: If you have nought to say the while SONG First Line: I love to fancy in long veils and calm SONG OF FABIANI Poem Text First Line: When you sing at my breast Last Line: Sleep, dear, and love. Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Songs SONNET First Line: Death and beauty, being deep, the both of them Last Line: Since you are beautiful and I am old SOWER First Line: Sitting on a porchway cool SPIRITS FLOWN First Line: Souls brought back to memory SPOILT CHILDREN First Line: Seeing that children fear me not STRUGGLE First Line: Tis angry ignorance, to pity those SULTAN MURAD First Line: A man was murad son of bajazet TERRIBLE YEAR First Line: That dreadful year I gird me to relate THE BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: I gazed on darkness where the pit most dread Last Line: "what is thy name?"" said I. He answered ""pray'r." Subject(s): Bridges; Prayer THE BROOK AND THE OCEAN Poem Text First Line: A brook from a headland was falling Last Line: "drop of fresh water to drink." Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Streams; Creeks; Ocean THE BURGEOIS Poem Text First Line: The world since it exists we tolerate Last Line: He guides the poor, and god can patronize. THE BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: When the gorgeous butterfly / in the jubilee of spring Last Line: By perfidious pleasure's thorn! Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Bugs THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR Poem Text First Line: Give heed unto this little lad Last Line: And finds them ragged in array! Subject(s): Children; God; Childhood THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES Poem Text First Line: My name is light. I am seventy cubits high Last Line: In the deep trance of my colossal stare. Subject(s): Light; Rhodes (island) THE DJINNS Poem Text First Line: Town, tower, / shore, deep Last Line: Of sound Subject(s): Fairies; Elves THE EAGLE AND THE KINGS Poem Text First Line: An eagle sought the desert's spring beside / a lion's cave Last Line: "and keep the sky." Subject(s): Birds; Courts & Courtiers; Eagles; Murder; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE FLOWER AND THE BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: Once to the butterfly a floweret sighed Last Line: "the sky—the mead." Subject(s): Butterflies; Flowers; Insects; Bugs THE GENESIS OF BUTTERFLIES Poem Text First Line: The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers Last Line: Flutter, and float, and change to butterflies. Subject(s): Love; Spring THE GIANT Poem Text First Line: Brave chiefs! In the land of the giants I was born Last Line: What mountain my tomb is may wondering seek! Subject(s): Giants THE GRANDMOTHER First Line: Dear mother of our mother! Dost thou sleep?' THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Now grave to rose complaineth Last Line: "I fledge with angel's wing." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The grave said: 'rose, so bright of hue Last Line: "god's paradise to fill." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE LONELY PEAKS Poem Text First Line: The summit is deserted, is gloomy, inclement Last Line: And brought to the summit and left here alone. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness THE POET'S SIMPLE FAITH Poem Text First Line: You say, 'where goest thou?' I cannot tell Last Line: My future is not one of my concerns. Variant Title(s): The Faith Of The Poet Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE POOR CHILDREN Poem Text First Line: Take heed of this small child of earth Last Line: And find them ragged babes that weep! THE ROSE AND THE GRAVE Poem Text First Line: The grave said to the rose Last Line: The grave said to the rose. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SACK OF THE CITY Poem Text First Line: Thy will, o king, is done! Lighting but to consume Last Line: With golden circlet to thy glorious ankle bound. Subject(s): Asia; Tragedy; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE SLEEPER'S PRAYER Poem Text First Line: As laura to the florentine Last Line: My soul shall wake to thine! Subject(s): Sleep THE SONG OF THE PROW-GILDERS Poem Text First Line: We are the gilders of the prows Last Line: Beneath thy groaning galley-slaves. Subject(s): Sea; Ocean THE SOWER Poem Text First Line: Now falls the dusk I sit in peace Last Line: Athwart the starry world. Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER Poem Text First Line: Peaceful and cool, the twilight grey Last Line: Seems to my eyes sublimely grand! Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE STUDENT'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: She said, 'it is true, love; how foolish my sighs! Last Line: "you look at me sometimes yourself for a while!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love; Schools; Work; Workers; Students THE SWALLOW'S NEST Poem Text First Line: Into the church with pray'r go by Last Line: God dwelleth too. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Churches; God; Swallows; Cathedrals THE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: Upon the skyline I' the dark Last Line: Republic of the world! Variant Title(s): Republic Of The World Subject(s): Brotherhood; Patriotism THE VISION Poem Text First Line: Aloft a white-robed angel I beheld Last Line: I saw the starry multitudes ablaze. Subject(s): Angels; Love; Vision THERE I BREATHE, WHERE THROBS THY HEART First Line: I but breathe, where throbs thy heart THOUGHTS UPON THE DUNES First Line: Now that my time does like a flambeau waste THREE YEARS AFTER First Line: The time is come for me to rest TIS ALL THE FASHION TIS COLD First Line: The hard white road shows winter's hold TO A FRIEND First Line: On the dread cliffs which storms infest TO A LADY Poem Text First Line: Maiden, were I a king, the monarchy Last Line: My passion with a kiss. Subject(s): Love TO A TRAVELLER First Line: Friend, you return from that wide travelling TO A WOMAN First Line: Child! If I were a king, my throne I would surrender Subject(s): Love TO A WOMAN First Line: Child, if I were a king, I would surrender my throne Last Line: All for one kiss of yours TO A YOUNG GIRL First Line: You, who not yet can childhood'd beauty tell TO GARIBALDI, AFTER THE BATTLE OF MENTANA First Line: These youths, true sons of rome's great chiefs of old TO GEORGE First Line: My george, to some menagerie come on TO HER WHO REMAINS IN FRANCE First Line: Erst, when september steeped in tears came back TO JEANNE First Line: That I too like the beasts I freely own TO JEANNE First Line: This spot, so pure, you make complete TO L Poem Text First Line: All hope, child, is a reed Last Line: Laves a soul. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Graves; Heaven; Hope; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Optimism TO LAURA, DUCHESS D'A First Line: Since were their souls too mean to comprehend TO MADEMOISELLE FANNY DE P First Line: You, whom fresh girlhood guards from ill TO MAKE THE PEOPLE HAPPY, LASH THEM WITH GUNS Last Line: Turns flabby and trembles; and - peace! Says war Subject(s): Social Protest TO MY DAUGHTER First Line: You see, my child, that I submit to fate TO MY DAUGHTER ADELE First Line: Near me you slept, a fresh and rosy child TO ROSITA First Line: So, you won't love, you naughty thing TO TEOPHILE GAUTIER First Line: Gautier, your name distinct as sunlight Last Line: Of doves, weeps over cradles and smiles at tombs TO THE CLOUDS AND THE BIRDS First Line: Clouds, heaven's virgins fair and sweet TO THE COLUMN First Line: Alas! Alas! Keep thy lone tomb TO THE IMPERIOUS BEAUTY First Line: Love, like a panic Last Line: But if I tremble %beauty, beware Subject(s): Love TO THE MOTHER OF THE DEAD CHILD First Line: You did too oft your little angel tell TO THE TREES First Line: Trees of the forest, you know my heartwood beneath my name Last Line: Noble trees, I will entrust my nameless grave to your keeping, %for here I long to rest and dream in TO THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT FRATERNITY First Line: When we are conquerers we'll see TOMB SAID TO THE ROSE TOMORROW MORN, WHAT TIME THE FIELDS GROW WHITE TORQUEMADA First Line: There's need of gold. Be lavish of your gold TOUT LA LYRE, SELS. First Line: Let us pass on, for it is the law which no one can evade Last Line: Weep over cradles and smile at graves TRANSFIGURATION Poem Text First Line: The grave said to the rose Last Line: I fashion an angel of heaven. Subject(s): Transfiguration TROIS ANS APRES First Line: Il est temps que je me repose TRUMPET OF JUDGMENT First Line: I saw in the clouds a monstrous horn Last Line: His feet in hell, his forehead in the stars TWO ISLANDS First Line: There are two isles, whose oceans wide TWO STANZAS ON CHILDREN First Line: How beautiful the child! Its smile how sweet VANISHED CITY First Line: Water is never idle VASE First Line: Since I have often placed my lips to your overflowing cap Last Line: And oblivion can never quench my eternal love VEIL First Line: Why, brother, why upon me stare VENI, VIDI, VIXI First Line: I have lived long enough, since in my grief WALK AMONG THE ROCKS First Line: The sun declined, eve quickly to pursue WALK ON THE ROCKS Poem Text First Line: Lord! How sublime the hills with golden stains Last Line: The censer I, intelligent and true. WEEPS THE EARTH IN WINTER'S DAY WHAT CARES MY HEART WHAT IS HEARD ON THE MOUNTAIN First Line: Silent and calm, have you e'er scaled the height WHEN NOISY RABBLE WHEN WE WERE LIVING First Line: When we were living, all of us %under the hill where the river spoke Last Line: The past is shadows in the wind WHENCE CAME THIS BOOK, SELS. First Line: The wall of ages in my dreams appeared WHERE GOEST THOU?' Subject(s): Religion WHERE YOU MAY REST Poem Text First Line: Tis a pleasant mead Last Line: Where thy heart may rest. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Rest; Sleep; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones WHO ART THOU, SHADOWY PASSER-BY? WHOSE FAULT IS THIS? First Line: So: you burned the library to the ground' Last Line: Yeah. What if I can't read?' WILD FACE AT THE WINDOWS First Line: While the child laughs, beyond the bastion thick WINGS Poem Text First Line: Be like the bird, that, halting in her flight Subject(s): Religion; Theology WINGS Poem Text First Line: My fancy flies, and sweetly sings Last Line: Wings as of love. Subject(s): Religion; Theology WINGS First Line: Let us be like a bird for a moment perched Last Line: Knowing that he has wings Subject(s): Religion WINGS First Line: Be like the bird, that, halting in her flight Last Line: Knowing he has wings Subject(s): Birds; Religion WINTRY WEATHER Poem Text First Line: Now winter turns the roadway white Last Line: Whose light is as the sheen of stars! Subject(s): Love; Weather; Winter WORD FROM THE DUNES First Line: Now that my lamp burns lower, %now that my task is ended Last Line: The summer, brilliant as a stranger's laugh, upholds %another flowering of blue thistle WORDS IN THE SHADOW First Line: She said, 'I am wrong to want something more, it's true Last Line: To look at me a little, sometimes, on your part WORST TREASON First Line: The deepest infamy man can attain Last Line: With her steel knotted whip beneath her arm Subject(s): Freedom WRITTEN AT THE FOOT OF A CRUCIFIX First Line: Weepers! Come to this god, for he doth weep WRITTEN IN COPY OF THE DIVINA COMEDIA First Line: One evening on the road I saw a stranger come YOU WANT THE MOON First Line: The moon! From out the wall |
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