POEMS ***

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POEMS

BY VICTOR HUGO

1888

CONTENTS.

Memoir of Victor Marie Hugo

EARLY POEMS.

Moses on the Nile--_Dublin University Magazine_ Envy and Avarice--_American Keepsake_

ODES.--1818-28.

King Louis XVII--_Dublin University Magazine_ The Feast of Freedom--_"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)_ Genius--_Mrs. Torre Hulme_ The Girl of Otaheite--_Clement Scott_ Nero's Incendiary Song--_H.J. Williams_ Regret--_Fraser's Magazine_ The Morning of Life Beloved Name--_Caroline Bowles (Mrs. Southey)_ The Portrait of a Child--_Dublin University Magazine_

BALLADES.--1823-28.

The Grandmother--_"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)_ The Giant in Glee--_Foreign Quart. Rev. (adapted)_ The Cymbaleer's Bride--_"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)_ Battle of the Norsemen and the Gaels Madelaine The Fay and the Peri--_Asiatic Journal_

LES ORIENTALES.--1829

The Scourge of Heaven--_I.N. Fazakerley_ Pirates' Song The Turkish Captive--_W.D., Tait's Edisiburgh Mag._ Moonlight on the Bosphorus--_John L. O'Sullivan_ The Veil--_"Father Prout" (F.S. Mahony)_ The Favorite Sultana The Pasha and the Dervish The Lost Battle--_W.D., Bentley's Miscel_., 1839 The Greek Boy Zara, the Bather--_John L. O'Sullivan_ Expectation--_John L. O'Sullivan _ The Lover's Wish--_V., Eton Observer_ The Sacking of the City--_John L. O'Sullivan_ Noormahal the Fair The Djinns--_John L. O'Sullivan_ The Obdurate Beauty--_John L. O'Sullivan_ Don Rodrigo Cornflowers--_H.L. Williams_ Mazeppa--_H.L. Williams_ The Danube in Wrath--_Fraser's Magazine_ Old Ocean--_R.C. Ellwood_ My Napoleon--_H.L. Williams_

LES FEUILLES D'AUTOMNE.--1831.

The Patience of the People--_G.W.M. Reynolds_ Dictated before the Rhone Glacier--_Author of "Critical Essays"_ The Poet's Love for Liveliness--_Fraser's Magazine_ Infantile Influence--_Henry Highton, M.A._ The Watching Angel--_Foreign Quarterly Review_ Sunset--_Toru Dutt_ The Universal Prayer--_Henry Highton, M.A._ The Universal Prayer--_C., Tait's Magazine_

LES CHANTS DU CRÉPUSCULE.--1849.

Prelude to "The Songs of Twilight"--_G.W.M. Reynolds_ The Land of Fable--_G.W.M. Rrynolds_ The Three Glorious Days--_Elizabeth Collins_ Tribute to the Vanquished--_Fraser's Magazine_ Angel or Demon--_Fraser's Magazine_ The Eruption of Vesuvius--_Fraser's Magazine_ Marriage and Feasts--_G.W.M. Reynolds_ The Morrow of Grandeur--_Fraser's Magazine_ The Eaglet Mourned--_Fraser's Magazine_ Invocation--_G.W.M. Reynolds_ Outside the Ball-room--_G.W.M. Reynolds_ Prayer for France--_J.S. Macrae_ To Canaris, the Greek Patriot--_G.W.M. Reynolds_ Poland--_G.W.M. Reynolds_ Insult not the Fallen--_W.C.K. Wilde_ Morning--_W.M. Hardinge_ Song of Love--_Toru Dutt_ Sweet Charmer--_H.B. Farnie_ More Strong than Time--_A. Lang_ Roses and Butterflies--_W.C. Westbrook_ A Simile--_Fanny Kemble-Butler_ The Poet to his Wife

LES VOIX INTÉRIEURES.--1840.

The Blinded Bourbons--_Fraser's Magazine_ To Albert Dürer--_Mrs. Newton Crosland_ To his Muse--_Fraser's Magazine_ The Cow--_Toru Dutt_ Mothers--_Dublin University Magazine_ To some Birds Flown away--_Mrs. Newton Crosland_ My Thoughts of Ye--_Dublin University Magazine_ The Beacon in the Storm Love's Treacherous Pool The Rose and the Grave--_A. Lang_

LES RAYONS ET LES OMBRES.--1840.

Holyrood Palace--_Fraser's Magazine_ The Humble Home--_Author of "Critical Essays"_ The Eighteenth Century--_Author of "Critical Essays"_ Still be a Child--_Dublin University Magazine_ The Pool and the Soul--_R.F. Hodgson_ Ye Mariners who Spread your Sails--_Author of "Critical Essays"_ On a Flemish Window-Pane--_Fraser's Magazine_ The Preceptor--_E.E. Frewer_ Gastibelza--_H.L. Williams_ Guitar Song--_Evelyn Jerrold_ Come when I Sleep--_Wm. W. Tomlinson_ Early Love Revisited--_Author of "Critical Essays"_ Sweet Memory of Love--_Author of "Critical Essays"_ The Marble Faun--_William Young_ A Love for Winged Things Baby's Seaside Grave

LES CHÂTIMENTS.--1853.

Indignation! Imperial Revels--_H.L.W._ Poor Little Children Apostrophe to Nature Napoleon "The Little" Fact or Fable--_H.L.W._ A Lament--_Edwin Arnold, C.S.I._ No Assassination The Despatch of the Doom The Seaman's Song The Retreat from Moscow--_Toru Dutt_ The Ocean's Song--_Toru Dutt_ The Trumpets of the Mind--_Toru Dutt_ After the Coup d'État--_Toru Dutt_ Patria The Universal Republic

LES CONTEMPLATIONS.--1830-56.

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