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Victor Hugo: leading voice of the Romantic movement in France
Author of Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame shares three poems
- June Nights
- In summer, when day has fled, the plain covered with flowers
- Pours out far away an intoxicating scent;
- Eyes shut, ears half open to noises,
- We only half sleep in a transparent slumber.
- The stars are purer, the shade seems pleasanter;
- A hazy half-day colors the eternal dome;
- And the sweet pale dawn awaiting her hour
- Seems to wander all night at the bottom of the sky.
- If My Verses Had Wings
- Songs as sweet as summer brings,
- To your flowery lawn should fly
- If my verses had the wings—
- Wings of birds that haunt the sky.
- Like the spark that upward springs,
- They would seek your smiling hearth,
- If my verses had the wings—
- Wings such as a spirit hath.
- Near you, close as ivy clings,
- They would dwell by night and day
- If my verses had the wings—
- Wings like love to speed the way.
- A Fleeting Glimpse of a Village
- How graceful the picture! the life, the repose!
- The sunbeam that plays on the porch stone wide;
- And the shadow that fleets o’er the stream that flows,
- And the soft blue sky with the hill’s green side.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist and playwright, and one of the leading voices of the Romantic movement in France. Like Shakespeare and Goethe, Hugo’s work transcends time and tongue – his novels alone have earned him a place of distinction beside these two poets. While most of the world knows him as the author of Les Miserables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), within his own country, Hugo was best known during his lifetime for his poetry.
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Victor Hugo: leading voice of the Romantic movement in France
Author of Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame shares three poems
Victor Hugo: leading voice of the Romantic movement in France
Author of Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame shares three poems
- June Nights
- In summer, when day has fled, the plain covered with flowers
- Pours out far away an intoxicating scent;
- Eyes shut, ears half open to noises,
- We only half sleep in a transparent slumber.
- The stars are purer, the shade seems pleasanter;
- A hazy half-day colors the eternal dome;
- And the sweet pale dawn awaiting her hour
- Seems to wander all night at the bottom of the sky.
- If My Verses Had Wings
- Songs as sweet as summer brings,
- To your flowery lawn should fly
- If my verses had the wings—
- Wings of birds that haunt the sky.
- Like the spark that upward springs,
- They would seek your smiling hearth,
- If my verses had the wings—
- Wings such as a spirit hath.
- Near you, close as ivy clings,
- They would dwell by night and day
- If my verses had the wings—
- Wings like love to speed the way.
- A Fleeting Glimpse of a Village
- How graceful the picture! the life, the repose!
- The sunbeam that plays on the porch stone wide;
- And the shadow that fleets o’er the stream that flows,
- And the soft blue sky with the hill’s green side.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist and playwright, and one of the leading voices of the Romantic movement in France. Like Shakespeare and Goethe, Hugo’s work transcends time and tongue – his novels alone have earned him a place of distinction beside these two poets. While most of the world knows him as the author of Les Miserables (1862) and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), within his own country, Hugo was best known during his lifetime for his poetry.
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