Description
This is Apollinaire’s first published poem and reads:Moon dribbling honey upon lips of lunatics
Orchards and country towns tonight grow greedy
Stars resemble bees
Of a luminous liquid that drips from trellises
Each honey beam oozes from heaven
Taking its own sweet time
Hidden I glimpse the sweet adventure
But I fear the fiery sting of that bee Arcturus
He has flung me deceiving beams
And culled his moon honey from the compass rose of the winds
Accession Number
20741
Medium
Etching in black on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.8 × 9.2 cm (5 7/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 9 cm (6 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 45.2 × 31.8 cm (17 13/16 × 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Credit Line
Bequest of Alice Roullier