Collected Poems in English and French

This collection gathers together the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett's English poems (including Whoroscope, his first published verse), English translations of poems by Eluard, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Chamfort, and poems in French, several of which are presented in translation.

Publishers' Foreword

ix

Part I: Poems in English

Whoroscope

1

(6)

Gnome

7

(1)

Home Olga

8

(131)

Echo's Bones

The Vulture

9

(1)

Enueg I

10

(3)

Enueg II

13

(2)

Alba

15

(1)

Dortmunder

16

(1)

Sanies I

17

(2)

Sanies II

19

(2)

Serena I

21

(2)

Serena II

23

(2)

Serena III

25

(1)

Malacoda

26

(1)

Da Tagte Es

27

(1)

Echo's Bones

28

(1)

Six Poems

Cascando

29

(2)

Ooftish

31

(1)

Saint Lo

32

(1)

dread nay

33

(2)

Roundelay

35

(1)

thither

36

(2)

Part II: Poems in French with some translations

Poemes 1937-1939

elles viennent

38

(1)

they come

39

(1)

a elle l'acte calme

40

(1)

etre la sans machoires sans dents

41

(1)

Ascension

42

(1)

La Mouche

43

(1)

musique de l'indifference

44

(1)

bois seul

45

(1)

ainsi a-t-on beau

46

(1)

Rue de Vaugirard

47

(1)

Dieppe

48

(1)

Dieppe

49

(1)

Arenes de Lutece

50

(1)

jusque dans la caverne ciel et sol

51

(2)

Six Poemes 1947-1949

bon bon il est un pays

53

(1)

Mort de A.D.

54

(1)

vive morte ma seule saison

55

(1)

je suis ce cours de sable qui glisse

56

(1)

my way is in the sand flowing

57

(1)

que ferais-je sans ce monde

58

(1)

what would I do without this world

59

(1)

je voudrais que mon amour meure

60

(1)

I would like my love to die

61

(1)

Poeme 1974

hors crane seul dedans

62

(1)

something there

63

(3)

Part III: Translations from French with the originals

From Paul Eluard

L'amoureuse

66

(1)

Lady Love

67

(1)

A perte de vue dans le sens de mon corps

68

(1)

Out of Sight in the Direction of my Body

69

(1)

A peine defiguree

70

(1)

Scarcely Disfigured

71

(1)

Seconde nature

72

(1)

Second Nature

73

(1)

La vue

74

(1)

Scene

75

(3)

L'univers-solitude

78

(1)

Universe-Solitude

79

(5)

Confections

84

(1)

Confections

85

(7)

From Arthur Rimbaud

Le bateau ivre

92

(1)

Drunken Boat

93

(13)

From Guillaume Apollinaire

Zone

106

(1)

Zone

107

(15)

From Sebastien Chamfort

Huit maximes

122

(1)

Long after Chamfort

123

(16)

Le sot

122

(1)

Wit in fools

123

(1)

Le theatre tragique

124

(1)

The trouble with tragedy

125

(1)

Quand on soutient que les gens

126

(1)

Better on your arse

127

(1)

Quand on a ete bien tourmente

128

(1)

Live and clean forget

129

(1)

La pensee console

130

(1)

Ask of all-healing

131

(1)

L'esperance

132

(1)

Hope

133

(1)

Vivre est une maladie

134

(1)

Sleep till death

135

(1)

Que le coeur de l'homme

136

(1)

How hollow heart

137

(2)

Notes

139

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