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 ...
(NORMANDE.)I AM weary of lying within the chaseWhen the knights are meeting in market-place.Nay, go not thou to the red-roofed ...
It was night-time and He was alone.And He saw afar-off the walls of a round city and went towards thecity.And ...
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 ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
Seven stars in the still water, And seven in the sky; Seven sins on the King's daughter, Deep in her ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear This paltry age's gaudy livery, To let each base hand filch ...
It is full winter now: the trees are bare, Save where the cattle huddle from the cold Beneath the pine, ...
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing ...
I am weary of lying within the chase When the knights are meeting in market-place. Nay, go not thou to ...
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - I am too young to ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
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