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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STUDENT'S WIFE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poet's Biography
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
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
She said, "It is true, love; how foolish my sighs!
It is true that the hours pass enchantingly so;
You are here, and I gaze unreproved on your eyes,
Where I trace all your thoughts as they come and they go.
"To see you is bliss; bliss to me incomplete;
Don't fancy I murmur at all at my lot;
I watch that nought irksome invades your retreat,
For I know what you love, dear, and what you do not.
"In a corner I nestle most wondrously small,
For you are my lion, and I am your dove;
I pick up your pens should they happen to fall,
And the soft rustling sound of your papers I love.
"No doubt I possess you; I see you no doubt,
Still, thought is a wine with which dreamers get drunk;
You should dream but of me; I have reason to pout
When each eve in old books your whole being is sunk.
"There's a shade in my loving heart's inmost recess,
When you ne'er raise your head, never speak, never smile,
And I never can see you completely, unless
You look at me sometimes yourself for a while!"
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