Guillaume APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918). Autograph poem signed, Le printemps, [1902 ?] 3 fol. pages (skilful restorations, ff. lined on verso with light japon paper). Important poem collected in Le Guetteur mélancolique (1952). It was first published in the Cahiers de la Pléiade (XIII, autumn-spring 1951-1952). "Spring lets perjured fiancés wander And leaves the blue feathers to leaf for a long time Shaken by the cypress where the blue bird nests The charming prince of fairy tales and tender adventures"... This long poem, of 25 quatrains, was written during Apollinaire's stay in Munich, from mid-March to early May 1902, on the back of the paper of the Hotel Zu den Vier Jahreszeiten, where he was staying with the de Milhau family. It is proudly signed with the pseudonym "Guillaume Apollinaire", which he had just adopted. The manuscript, in black ink, shows a few erasures and corrections; several stanzas are surrounded by a pen stroke. Apollinaire reused certain parts of Printemps in three poems of Alcools (1913): the first three stanzas in Fiançailles, with a few variations; the fifteenth in L'Émigrant de Landor Road, where it forms the conclusion; the seventeenth, much transformed, in a stanza of Le Brasier. Former Guillaume Apollinaire collection (sale 27 January 1992, no. 1).