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VERLAINE Paul (1844 - 1896)

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VERLAINE Paul (1844 - 1896)
Autograph poem signed "PV", [The Book of Esther, II]| 1 page in-8.
Poem about his mistress Philomena Boudin.
Working manuscript of this poem of four quatrains, with erasures and corrections, second poem of the diptych Le Livre d'Esther (nickname of
Philomena), collected in 1903 in the OEuvres posthumes as an appendix to Dédicaces.
"Phi... B... it is almost the moon, But the moon I see
When you yield to my voice
Which undoubtedly imports you"...
An autograph quatrain signed "Paul Verlaine", To Madame... (1 page in-12) : "I do not want any more that you gruges me"...