"Avait-elle un coeur ? Non, car c'était une femme !  Mais si pourtant... je me souviens..."

Two autograph poems from youth dated and signed with fourteen stanzas each in alexandrines by Abel Gance, then aged 20, 18 and 21 lines written in violet ink for each of the poems; these poems written on a sheet detached from a schoolboy's exercise book.
On the recto, the first poem is dated 3 January 1909 and it is dedicated to a couple of friends: "To Myriam Deroxe to Victor Fransses pious admirers of Salomé, this testimony of a spirit almost understanding their enthusiasm. "
The second, on the verso, is entitled "Vague Song"; it is dated Brussels 28 January 1909 and signed AGance.
Fold marks inherent to postal folding.
These poems were probably published in 1909 in his only and very rare collection of poems: "A Finger on the Keyboard" when Abel Gance was considering beginning a career in theatre in Brussels.
"In that time Salomé lived in Palestine, ...
Her eyes were of the gold from which sorrows are made,
She had a rose on her lips, pallors,
a supple body burning with feline voluptuousness.
...
And in my life... she will come... I think I see her! -
Did she have a heart? No, for she was a woman!
But yet... I remember... it was an evening: "

The second, which has a strip of tape at the level of the title, is equally imbued with melancholy:
"I will let some flowers trail this evening
On the marble parvis where I will come to wait for her;
My heart, softly grey, will be so gentle, so tender
That to slip from the world to the infinity of tears
On the marble parvis where I will come to wait for her;
It will suffice to surprise a little of her mouth
I will let some flowers trail this evening..."

Influenced by John Keats, Charles Baudelaire, and Arthur Rimbaud, Abel Gance, then in Brussels to pursue a career in theatre, stops his poetic activity judging his production too impersonal and returns despairing to Paris.