Louis Marcoussis...illustrations for Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcohol... 1913

The Betrothal, etching, plate 29 from Alcools, 1934

“And the solitary cord of sea lutes.”

Singer, plate eight from Alcools, 1934

Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools, 1934

Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened

The orchards and towns are greedy tonight

The stars appear like the image of bees

Of this luminous honey that offends the vines

For now all sweet in their fall from the sky

Each ray of moonlight’s a ray of honey

Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure

I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee

that sets these deceptive rays in my hands

And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds

Lul of Faltenin, plate eighteen from Alcools, 1934

Rosemonde, plate 21 from Alcools, 1934

I named her Rosemonde

Lest I forget

Mouth flowered in Holland

Then slowly I took my way

Seeking the rose of the world