Poetry Tuesday!: "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo

Here's "Les Djinns" (1829) by Victor Hugo (1802-1885).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe

Comments

[mulched]

Brings back memories of Intermediate French. That was a fun one.

[Cal Cetín]

Djinn and Juice

[Krychek_2]

The bee, he is a busy soul
He has no time for birth control
And that is why, in days like these,
There are so many sons of bees.