Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Summary

Portrait of Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau The Book of the Homeless (1916)

Oh, how you suffered! How you were afraid!
What death-damp hands you locked about your eyes!
You, so insatiably athirst to spend
The young desires in your hearts abloom,
How could you think the desert was your doom,
The waterless fountain and the endless end ?
You yearned not for the face of love, grown dim,
But only fought your anguished bones to wrest
From the Black Angel crouched upon your breast,
Who scanned you ere he led you down with him.
Jean Cocteau
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1928.
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