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 ...
(FOR MUSIC.) THE apple trees are hung with gold, And birds are loud in Arcady, The sheep lie bleating in the fold, The wild ...
I -There is no peace beneath the moon,-Ah! in those meadows is there peaceWhere, girdled with a silver fleece,As a ...
(NORMANDE.)I AM weary of lying within the chaseWhen the knights are meeting in market-place.Nay, go not thou to the red-roofed ...
1.O goat-foot God of Arcady!This modern world is grey and old,And what remains to us of thee?No more the shepherd ...
Seven stars in the still water,And seven in the sky;Seven sins on the King's daughter,Deep in her soul to lie.Red ...
I WANDERED in Scoglietto's green retreat, The oranges on each o'erhanging spray Burned as bright lamps of gold to shame the day;Some ...
WAS this His coming! I had hoped to seeA scene of wondrous glory, as was toldOf some great God who ...
A fair slim boy not made for this world's pain.With hair of gold thick clustering round his ears,And longing eyes ...
The silver trumpets rang across the Dome:The people knelt upon the ground with awe:And borne upon the necks of men ...
I reached the Alps: the soul within me burnedItalia, my Italia, at thy name:And when from out the mountain's heart ...
A ring of gold and a milk-white dove Are goodly gifts for thee, And a hempen rope for your own ...
Where hast thou been since round the walls of Troy The sons of God fought in that great emprise? Why ...
Seven stars in the still water, And seven in the sky; Seven sins on the King's daughter, Deep in her ...
Under the rose-tree's dancing shade There stands a little ivory girl, Pulling the leaves of pink and pearl With pale ...
This winter air is keen and cold, And keen and cold this winter sun, But round my chair the children ...
(To Ellen Terry) I marvel not Bassanio was so bold To peril all he had upon the lead, Or that ...
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
The apple trees are hung with gold, And birds are loud in Arcady, The sheep lie bleating in the fold, ...
A lily-girl, not made for this world's pain, With brown, soft hair close braided by her ears, And longing eyes ...
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
I wandered through Scoglietto's far retreat, The oranges on each o'erhanging spray Burned as bright lamps of gold to shame ...
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees ...
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, ...
I. O goat-foot God of Arcady! This modern world is grey and old, And what remains to us of thee? ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
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