The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Mais ses paroles ne furent point comprises, ni même entendues. La jo ...

MALCOLM DE CHAZAL But her words were not understood, or even heard. The joy of a crowd has a thousand mouths — and no ears. —mar ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism La pluie est une épingle d’eau, et une aiguille de lumière, dans le ...

MALCOLM DE CHAZAL The rain is a pin of water, and a needle of light, in the dice of the wind Rose-color, the milk teeth of the s ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Le sein est une pomme dans une poire, où pointe un grain de raisin. ...

MALCOLM DE CHAZAL The breast is an apple in a pear, with a grape seed just showing through. The breast is melting at its maximum ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Notre paire Notre paire quiète, ô yeux! que votre «non» soit sang (t ...

Robert Desnos 1900–1945 paris, france O ne of the original participants in Surrealism, the Parisian Desnos was a master of sever ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Comme Come, dit l’Anglais à l’Anglais, et l’Anglais vient. Côme, dit ...

ROBERT DESNOS Like Laïque, says the Frenchman to the Frenchman, and the Frenchman is civil. Lake? says the pleasure-boat captain ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Et si quelque jour tu t’en souviens O toi, forme et nom de mon amour ...

ROBERT DESNOS And if some day you remember O form and name of my love, One day on the ocean between America and Europe, At the h ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Loin de moi, ô joyeuse comme la fleur qui danse dans la rivière au b ...

ROBERT DESNOS Far from me, oh joyous as the flower dancing in the river on its watery stem, oh sad as seven in the evening in th ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Jamais d’autre que toi ne saluera la mer à l’aube quand fatigué d’er ...

ROBERT DESNOS Never anyone but you will salute the sea at dawn when tired of wandering having left the dark-shadowed forests and ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism L’Amoureuse Elle est debout sur mes paupières Et ses cheveux sont da ...

Paul Éluard (Eugène Grindel) 1895–1952 saint-denis, france É luard is celebrated as the author of some of the best Surrealist po ...

part 2. 1916–1930: dada and the heroic period of surrealism Elle a toujours les yeux ouverts Et ne me laisse pas dormir. Ses rêv ...

PAUL ÉLUARD Her eyes she keeps always open And doesn’t let me sleep. Her dreams in broad daylight Make the suns evaporate, Make ...