Demain dès l'aube
Demain dès l'aube | |
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by Victor Hugo | |
![]() Manuscript of the poem | |
First published in | 1847 |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Series | Les Contemplations |
Publication date | 1856 (1856) |
Lines | 12 |
Demain dès l'aube (English: Tomorrow at dawn) is one of French writer Victor Hugo's most famous poems. It was published in his 1856 collection Les Contemplations. It consists of three quatrains of rhyming alexandrines. The poem describes a visit to his daughter Léopoldine Hugo's grave four years after her death.[1]
Text and translation
Demain, dès l'aube, à l'heure où blanchit la campagne, | Tomorrow, at dawn, at the moment when the day breaks, |
References
- ^ Oxenhandler, Neal (1986). "The Discourse of Emotion in Hugo's "Demain, Dès L'aube . . ."". French Forum. 11 (1): 29–39. ISSN 0098-9355.
External links
- (in French)'Demain dès l'aube' by Victor Hugo (from Association Audiocité).
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