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 ...
From his childhood he had been as one filled with the perfectknowledge of God, and even while he was yet ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
I. The corn has turned from grey to red, Since first my spirit wandered forth From the drear cities of ...
The little white clouds are racing over the sky, And the fields are strewn with the gold of the flower ...
The oleander on the wall Grows crimson in the dawning light, Though the grey shadows of the night Lie yet ...
(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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