Paul ÉLUARD – Set of four autograph poems. 1937.

Paul ELUARD (1895.1952)

Autograph manuscript.

Two pages in-12° on water green paper.

Without place or date [1937]

 

Very beautiful collection of four poems by Éluard from the collection Les Mains Libres published by Jeanne Bucher in 1937, with illustrations by Man Ray.

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Portable woman

 

Of solemn effect in solitude

 

Terrestrial derision of the woman

When his heart is elsewhere

 

If what I love is granted to me

I am saved

 

If what I love is withdrawn

Annihilates

I'm lost

 

I don't like my dreams but I tell them

And I like other people's when they show them to me.

 

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Anxiety and worry

 

Purify rarefy sterilize destroy

Sow multiply nourish destroy

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Paranoia

 

In view of the coasts

Heard of some fish

Neighbors of the earth

 

Let's leave the sea

Let's hold on to the movement

Firm banks

 

The river goes down like an egg

And we are the birds.

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Barren eyes

 

She is like a bud

The flame space

Candid she has the aroma

Of lovers entwined.

 

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Les Mains Libres (drawings by Man Ray illustrated by poems by Éluard) was composed between the spring of 1936 and the summer of 1937.