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SWINBURNE Algernon (1837-1909).
To Victor Hugo, autograph poem signed in English, [1876]| 14 verses on one page in-4, erasures and corrections
Moving poem about the three missing children of Victor Hugo, who had lost successively Léopoldine (1843), Charles (1871) and François-Victor (1873).
"He had no children, who for love of men, Being God, endure of gods such things as thou, Father| nor on his thunder-beaten brow Fell such a woe as bows thine head again Twice bowed before, though godlike, in man's ken: And seen too high for any stroke to bow Save this of some strange god's that bends it now The third time with such weight as bruised it then. Fain would grief speak, fain utter for love's sake Some word: but comfort who might bid thee take? What god in your own tongue shall talk with thee? Showing how all souls that look upon the sun Shall be for thee one spirit & thy son, And thy soul's child the soul of man to be?"
Algernon Swinburn, English poet, playwright and critic was a great admirer of Victor Hugo's work as well as that of Sade and Baudelaire.
Provenance: Bibliothèque de Louis Barthou, t. II, 1935, n° 1046-52.
To Victor Hugo, autograph poem signed in English, [1876]| 14 verses on one page in-4, erasures and corrections
Moving poem about the three missing children of Victor Hugo, who had lost successively Léopoldine (1843), Charles (1871) and François-Victor (1873).
"He had no children, who for love of men, Being God, endure of gods such things as thou, Father| nor on his thunder-beaten brow Fell such a woe as bows thine head again Twice bowed before, though godlike, in man's ken: And seen too high for any stroke to bow Save this of some strange god's that bends it now The third time with such weight as bruised it then. Fain would grief speak, fain utter for love's sake Some word: but comfort who might bid thee take? What god in your own tongue shall talk with thee? Showing how all souls that look upon the sun Shall be for thee one spirit & thy son, And thy soul's child the soul of man to be?"
Algernon Swinburn, English poet, playwright and critic was a great admirer of Victor Hugo's work as well as that of Sade and Baudelaire.
Provenance: Bibliothèque de Louis Barthou, t. II, 1935, n° 1046-52.