Translations From The Poems Of Victor Hugo Classic Reprint PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... the gulf where man is lost. But, wretch! your soul a flash of pity crost; Blest glow! (where selfishness had ne'er a part), Unknown e'en by yourself, possessed your heart, I made you die, while right assumed her reign; Salvation e'en the cruel can regain, E'en bloodiest murderer, and worst of lords, Who the least help, to the least man affords--One moment's love, wins Eden repossest; Help to a pig outweighs a world opprest, And thrills with joy for him who 'scapes from hell Come, you were good one day, be ever blest; Enter, transfigured late by crimes possest, King! By heaven's splendours they are all effaced, By spotless white see your black wings replaced." POOR FOLK. 'TVS night, the hut, though poor, keeps out the JL wind; The room is dark, yet something there you find Which like a ray amid the twilight falls; The fishing-nets are hung about the walls, And in a nook, where pots and plates in line Upon a cupboard shelf obscurely shine, Stands a large bed, with curtains hung around, Hard by a mattress spread upon the ground, Where, like a nest of souls, five children sleep; The hearth, where ashes still some fire keep, On bed and ceiling cast a reddish ray; A woman, thoughtful, pale, kneels down to pray; Their mother. She's alone; and out of doors The ocean, white with foam, its wailing pours To sky, night, rock, to howling winds and wild. The man's at sea; a sailor from a child, With gloomy chance doth a fierce war sustain: For he must be afloat in squall and rain. POOR FOLK. 177 The children cry for food, and off he hies At eve, when billows to the gunwale rise. Unhelped, alone, his bark he steers and tends. Meanwhile, the wife at home the canvas mends, Fits on the hooks, the broken nets repairs, And for the fish-soup in the...