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Subject: HUGO, VICTOR (1802-1885)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ECHO OF VICTOR HUGO, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Life's a veil the real has
Last Line: And break his ninevehs and troys.
Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)


BALLADE DE VICTOR HUGO, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: En ce temps dedaigneux, la rime
Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)


BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring born in heaven ere many a springtime flown
Last Line: Gives thanks for all thou hast given past thanks of all on earth.
Subject(s): Birthdays; France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Spring


BIRTHDAY ODE FOR THE ANNIVESARY FESTIVAL OF VICTOR HUGO: PREFACE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt
Last Line: Was as light kindling all a windy sea.
Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Morning; Sea; Singing & Singers; Ocean


HUG THE BEAR!, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So 'twas for this that with consuming rage
Last Line: And down each cesspool stuff a tricolor!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Flags; France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Slavery; Serfs


ON THE BICENTENARY OF CORNEILLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce two hundred years are gone, and the world is past away
Last Line: Whence of yore the spell of song drove the shadow of darkling death.
Subject(s): Death; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Memory; Dead, The


SONNETS: 4. VICTOR HUGO, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That hour the titan corsican first dared
Last Line: Hope fired all plains and pinnacles of time.
Subject(s): Fate; Hope; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Time; Destiny; Optimism


THE SINGERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the twentieth century fadeth
Last Line: For the distant sake of us who sleep?
Subject(s): English Poetry - 19th Century; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Voices; Songs


THE STATUE OF VICTOR HUGO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since in athens god stood plain for adoration
Last Line: What the vesture of his soul revealed on earth.
Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Sea; Ocean


TO A FRENCH POET AND REFUGEE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The time is past - that time of little cheer
Last Line: Bemoan the sorrows and defeats of france.
Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Refugees


TO VICTOR HUGO, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Victor in drama [or, poesy], victor in romance
Last Line: To younger england in the boy, my son.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Writing & Writers


TO VICTOR HUGO (1), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fair days when god
Last Line: Earth's loftiest head, found upright to the end.
Variant Title(s): To Victor Hugo
Subject(s): Change; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)


TO VICTOR HUGO (2), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had no children, who for love of men
Last Line: 01/03/76
Subject(s): Children; God; Grief; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Love; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


VICTOR HUGO, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He set the trumpet to his lips, and lo!
Last Line: Where thou hast climbed, for ever, out of sight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)


VICTOR HUGO (1802-1902), by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of france for a hundred years
Last Line: Victor, forever victor, the whole world hails you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): France; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)


VICTOR HUGO'S HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, by RICHARD JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a door that begins with a hole in the heart
Last Line: There's all those dying planets gnawing on their bones. %there's a little stain of blood on the floo
Subject(s): Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)