LECONTE DE LISLE Charles (1818-1894). Autograph poem signed "Leconte de Lisle", La Fille de l'Emyr; 4 pages in8. Beautiful and long poem from the Poèmes barbares. First published in the Revue Européenne of May 1, 1861, this poem was collected in 1862 in the Poésies barbares (Poulet-Malassis), which became in the second edition in 1872 Poèmes barbares (Lemerre). It tells the story of the daughter of the Emyr Abd-El-Nur-Eddin, to whom Jesus appears and who, "among the living dead from now on", will never leave her "black monastery". It has 15 sizains. "A beautiful evening puts on warm colors The bushy massifs full of whistling birds Who, tired of songs, of games, of quarrels, The neck under the feather and tired of sleeping, Still listen to the soft shuddering The wave with the hazy sprays "... Another autograph poem signed, Le deux Novembre. To the Dead (1 page in-8), sonnet published in the Revue Européenne of November 15, 1861 and collected under the only title To the Dead in the Poèmes barbares : " After the apotheosis, after the gémonies ".