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Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE (1804–1869).
POEM, autograph signed ‘Ste B’, Sonnet to Madame Desbordes-Valmore, 21 March [1840]; 1 page, in-8.
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POEM, autograph signed ‘Ste B’, Sonnet to Madame Desbordes-Valmore, 21 March [1840]; 1 page, in-8.
A lovely poetic pairing. This sonnet was addressed by Sainte-Beuve to Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE herself on 21 March 1840, preceded by these two lines: ‘Charpentier is having all my verses printed in his collection: I have slipped in the following sonnet towards the end, itself a faint echo of *L’Horloge abandonnée*’ (the exact title of Marceline’s poem, which appeared in her *Élégies*, is *L’horloge arrêtée*). This sonnet did indeed appear in the edition of Sainte-Beuve’s Poésies complètes, published by Charpentier in 1840. “Since all things pass away and love too, Since after the torch there is nothing but ashes”…