System Number: 04122
Date: [January 1890][1]
Author: Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac[2]
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler M392
Document Type: ADI[3]
Siffleur.[4]
Mon vers est un verre
De Venise, aussi;
Je viens de le faire,
Et, sur place, ici.
Je l'enfle et le gonfle
En forme de fleur . .
Le four du ciel ronfle,
Le vent est souffleur.
J'irise et burine,
J'y trace au fil clair
De l'aventurine
Le nom de WHISTLER.
[monogram:] R M F
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Notes:
1. [January 1890]
Dated by reference to poem in #04119. This poem is published in Newton, Joy, La Chauve-Souris et le Papillon. Correspondance Montesquiou-Whistler, Glasgow, 1990, pp. 67-68, along with #04121 (dated 24 January 1890).
2. Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921), Symbolist writer and poet, and collector [more].
3. ADI
Written in purple ink on dark pink paper with a water-drop pattern.
4. Siffleur.
'Siffleur' (i.e. 'Whistler') was the first poem in Robert de Montesquiou's 'Veneziâneries', a section of Gondola. Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more], expressed her appreciation for the verses at #04123.