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 ...
YE powers fantastic ! goblin, sylph and fay,Whose subtle forms no laws material sway ;Ethereal essences, that dart and glideWherever ...
IT WATCHED ME in the cradle laid, and from my boyhood's homeIt glared above my shoulder-blade when I wrote my ...
The Western sun, ere he sought his lair, Skimm'd the treetops, and ...
IHe sat with his foolish mouth agape at the golden glare of the sea,And his wizened ...
There was an agile sailor ladWho longed to know the bushSo with his swag and billy-canHe said he'd make a ...
XCIIThe crocus opened slowly yesterday, And in its sod the grass began to stir, The softening air was humming to ...
We spend our lives in learning pilotage,And grow good steersmen when the vessel's crank!Gap-toothed he spake, and with a tottering ...
After rain, through afterglow, the unfolding fan of railway landscape sidled onthe pivot of a larger arc into the green ...
1917 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the ...
Gasholders, russet among fields. Milldams, marlpools that lay unstirring. Eel-swarms. Coagulations of frogs: once, with branches and half-bricks, he battered ...
The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down His cheeks the forth-and-flaunting sun Had swarthed about with lion-brown Before the Spring was ...
Fled foam underneath us, and round us, a wandering and milky smoke, High as the Saddle-girth, covering away from our ...
1 Adios, Carenage In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick to the rim of ...
For Horace Gregory After rain, through afterglow, the unfolding fan of railway landscape sidled onthe pivot of a larger arc ...
(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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