Love
Lover's Song
Translated by Ernest Oswald Coe (1888) · From Various Pieces
My soul unto thy heart is given,
In mystic fold do they entwine,
So bound in one that, were they riven,
Apart my soul would life resign.
Thou art my song and I the lyre;
Thou art the breeze and I the brier;
The altar I, and thou the fire;
Mine the deep love, the beauty thine!
As fleets away the rapid hour
While weeping--may
My sorrowing lay
Touch thee, sweet flower.
Codex Note
French: "Mon âme à ton coeur s'est donnée." [ANGELO, Act II., May, 1835.]
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MLA
Hugo, Victor. “Lover's Song.” Translated by Ernest Oswald Coe. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hugo/89/.
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Hugo, Victor. “Lover's Song.” Translated by Ernest Oswald Coe. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hugo/89/.
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