on her way distraught and without hearing These murmurings of love that round her steps ascend. Piously faithful still unto her austere duty, She will say, when she shall read these lines full of her beauty, "Who can this woman be?" and will not comprehend. --translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 19th-century French poets 1806 births 1850 deaths French male poets 19th-century French male writers