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Childhood

Poems about childhood, dominated by Victor Hugo and the verses he wrote for his grandchildren Georges and Jeanne. Tender and funny scenes sit beside darker poems about children who have died. Rimbaud (“Seven-Year-Old Poets”), Apollinaire and La Fontaine offer other views of these early years.

Poems with the theme : Childhood

A Lack by Victor Hugo
Ah! You Want the Moon? by Victor Hugo
All Kinds of Children by Victor Hugo
All the Early Ages Are Scattered by Victor Hugo
And I Saw Again the Only Child: It Seemed to Me by Paul Verlaine
And Jeanne to Mariette Said by Victor Hugo
Georges and Jeanne by Victor Hugo
God Again, but with Restrictions by Victor Hugo
Great Age and Young Age Mingled by Victor Hugo
Hymn of the Child at His Awakening by Alphonse De Lamartine
I Will Take the Two Little Children by the Hand by Victor Hugo
It Is a Strange Emotion by Victor Hugo
Jeanne Asleep (II) by Victor Hugo
Jeanne Makes Her Entrance by Victor Hugo
Jeanne Was Dreaming by Victor Hugo
Laetitia rerum by Victor Hugo
Saltimbanques by Guillaume Apollinaire
Song over the Cradle by Victor Hugo
Spring by Victor Hugo
The Door by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Face of the Beast Is Terrible by Victor Hugo
The Nap by Victor Hugo
The Orphans’ New Year by Arthur Rimbaud
The Other by Victor Hugo
The Poets of Seven Years by Arthur Rimbaud
The Satisfied Exile by Victor Hugo
Things of the Evening by Victor Hugo
To Departed Souls by Victor Hugo
To Georges by Victor Hugo
To Jeanne (I) by Victor Hugo
To My Daughter by Victor Hugo
To My Daughter Adèle by Victor Hugo
To the Mother of the Dead Child by Victor Hugo
To the Sick Child During the Siege by Victor Hugo

Fables with the theme : Childhood

Fortune and the Young Child by Jean De La Fontaine
The Wolf, the Mother, and the Child by Jean De La Fontaine