Poème autographe de Jean Cocteau intitulé "Battis à Hermas" contenu dans son recueil de poèmes Le Prince Frivole

Autograph tercet of youth signed with twelve stanzas by Jean Cocteau, 13 lines written in black ink on a leaf.
This manuscript poem in alexandrines was printed in the collection "Le prince frivole" published by Mercure de France in 1910, the second work published by the poet.
Handsome copy.
This manuscript of Le prince frivole was reputed to be lost: "The original manuscript in Cocteau's hand is missing" (Oeuvres poétiques complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, page 1842).
The work, praised by Marcel Proust who thus hailed Jean Cocteau as a: "Twenty-year-old Banville awaiting higher destinies", would be disowned by the author who would go so far as to forbid its republication.
This poem is part of the series of 8 poems entitled Les Chansons du petit prince (Le petit prince en exil in the edition) of which here is the list: Le petit prince arrive, Le petit prince à l'hôtel, Le petit prince en auto, Un dialogue et deux lettres, Battis à Hermas, Hermas à Battis, Acis à Néère et Néère à Acis.
"Je sens bondir en moi le coeur fiévreux d'Hélène
Le parfum de ma chair et de ma tiède haleine
Vaut mieux que l'odeur fade et grasse de la laine...
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Les mots d'amour vers moi coulent comme des laves !
Cornificuis chanta la splendeur de mes caves
Et mon troupeau docile est un troupeau d'esclaves..."