Ballad of Reading Gaol II (Oscar Wilde Poems)
Version IIHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Version IIHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
Version IHe did not wear his scarlet coat,For blood and wine are red,And blood and wine were on his handsWhen ...
LET ev'ry Christian who desires to know,What to his Saviour happen'd here below,Draw near — whilst I his Incarnation tell,And ...
CHRIST, when you hung upon that tree accurst,Bleeding, and braised, and agonised by thirst,Mocked, tantalized, and spat on and defiled,On ...
'Twas the shrunken soul of the traitor That whined in a coign of the dark; And the fiends were aroused ...
There is nothing more that they can do For all their rage and boast;Caiaphas with his blaspheming crew, Herod with ...
Make no mistake; there will be no forgiveness; No voice can harm you and no hand will save; Fenced by ...
What Christ must have endured hours before his witness when he came before Caiaphas, Pilate in the courts of power ...
The three in the seat of power paths for each of our lives of power, of corruption, of servanthood Like ...
At least one like Paul that night in the Sanhedrin failing to speak up for Christ to stop the mockery ...
God, the prisoner standing in the dock accused, before the righteous quietly hearing their abuse The lies, false accusations in ...
Mere coins for the betrayer what a terrible cost the price of his blood resting on his head Money for ...
The judgment of the righteous there in Caiaphas' house a wonder to think about he was merely teaching what they ...
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
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