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Victor Marie Hugo Poems
- A Sunset I love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love ...
- More Strong Than Time Since I have set my lips to your full ...
- Demain, Dès L'Aube... Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où ...
- The Genesis Of The Butterfly The dawn is smiling on the dew ...
- Luna O France, although you sleep We call you, we the ...
- Letter You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country ...
- 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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A Sunset
I 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;
Whether the mist in reefs of fire extend its reaches sheer,
Or a hundred sunbeams splinter in an azure atmosphere
On cloudy archipelagos.
Oh, gaze ye on the firmament! a hundred clouds in motion,
Up-piled in the immense sublime beneath the winds' commotion,
Their unimagined shapes accord:
Under their waves at intervals flame a pale levin through,
As if some giant of the air amid the vapors ...
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