Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) poet. Autograph poem; 1 page in-4 with erasures and corrections. First draft of the first three stanzas (12 lines) of the poem Despair of the North written in 1918. One entire stanza has been crossed out. "It is my body opened in two that speaks. Pour again this ignoble wine Of them, the vineyards which decorate The veranda in glass pearls, and the moat "... A photograph of Cocteau on the liner Île de France in 1925 is attached.