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VERLAINE PAUL (1844-1896)
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VERLAINE PAUL (1844-1896)
AUTHORIZED POEM signed "Paul Verlaine", Confiance, [1892]| page in-8 (glued, fold marks).
Published in La Plume on October 1, 1892, under the title Confiance, this poem of six quatrains was republished the following year, untitled, in Odes in his honor (Exhibit XIX).
It presents a variant of the text in the third line, and a few others of punctuation.
"They tell me that you are deceiving me.
First of all, what does it matter to them,
Dear Unfaithful One, that you break
ONE oath that you did not take?"...
Provenance
Old Édouard-Henri FISCHER collection (November 4, 2014, No. 115).
AUTHORIZED POEM signed "Paul Verlaine", Confiance, [1892]| page in-8 (glued, fold marks).
Published in La Plume on October 1, 1892, under the title Confiance, this poem of six quatrains was republished the following year, untitled, in Odes in his honor (Exhibit XIX).
It presents a variant of the text in the third line, and a few others of punctuation.
"They tell me that you are deceiving me.
First of all, what does it matter to them,
Dear Unfaithful One, that you break
ONE oath that you did not take?"...
Provenance
Old Édouard-Henri FISCHER collection (November 4, 2014, No. 115).