One of Victor HUGO's most famous poems: "The grave says to the rose."

Victor HUGO (1802.1885)

Signed autograph poem.

An oblong quarto page taken from an album.

Light bites.

Without place or date.

A precious and moving document of one of Victor Hugo's most famous poems.

This dialogue between a tomb and a rose is the penultimate poem (no. XXXI) of the collection published in 1837, Les Voix intérieures.

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The grave said to the rose:
- What do you do with the tears with which dawn waters
you, flower of love?
The rose said to the grave:
- What do you do with what falls
Into your ever-open abyss?

The rose says: – Dark tomb,
From these tears I make in the shadows
A perfume of amber and honey.
The tomb says: – Plaintive flower,
From each soul that comes to me
I make an angel of heaven!

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These melancholic lines have been set to music by Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and César Cui.