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Victor Marie Hugo Poems
- More Strong Than Time Since I have set my lips to your full ...
- A Sunset I love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love ...
- Demain, Dès L'Aube... Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où ...
- The Genesis Of The Butterfly The dawn is smiling on the dew ...
- Letter You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country ...
- Luna O France, although you sleep We call you, we the ...
- All Winged Creatures I Have Lo... All the winged creatures I ...
Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo]; was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered one of the most well-known French Romantic writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame).
Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate ... more »
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More Strong Than Time
Since 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,
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the shade;
Since it was given to me to hear on happy while,
The words wherein your heart spoke all its mysteries,
Since I have seen you weep, and since I have seen you smile,
Your lips upon my lips, and your eyes upon my eyes;
Since I have known above my forehead glance and gleam,
A ray, a single ray, of your star, veiled always,
Since I have felt...
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