The first academic poems of André BRETON. 1914.

André Breton (1896.1966)

Autograph manuscript – Fresh Water.

One page in-4° on graph paper.

Tiny foxing.

Slnd [Circa 1914]

Rare manuscript of this youthful poem with Mallarmean accents which will be published in 1919 in his collection Mont de Piété.

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The fresh water touched your hand, fairy!

To dawn on the sighs of my lips

In haste, I thought, suffocated

Let her interrupt this cutesy game

On the pond that its moires abdicate

A jealous emotion, let's laugh about it!

To consult on the grimoires

Illuminated by flowery water.

Feign doubt only with an oar

Marrying the mists, your skiff

To defy the wave that weaves

A plot of rushes fades away:

A lime sunset flickers.

Thanks to our absence

A sickle winged harvester

Around the pleasure boat

So that the aromas of sap

Humiliating dripping

(The cut rushes die) your dream

As well as taste transparencies.